Emotional Highs (and Lows)

This week I had a great meeting with Boy child’s teacher.  It’s funny after all this time to have a teacher who truly gets it.  She thought about his regression and offered ideas for what might be causing some of the behaviours. 

The bad part was that I cried.  Now I explained it away due to being tired because I am.  Girl Child isn't sleeping through the night anymore and she is 7 soon. If she had death breath and was snoring I’d think her adenoids had grown back.

Part of it is / was that I am really worried about Boy Child and most of the time I feel as though no one really gives a damn.  But his teacher does and that is great.  She is happy to share thoughts with me even though he doesn't exhibit the regressions and hardly any behaviours at school.

Most of it is because my grandmother is sick.  She was fine when we stayed with her in the school holidays and now her renal function is at 10%.  I live in a different state.  There is nothing I can do from here but at this point I’m not needed there either.  When I first wrote this post (about 8 hours ago) I hadn’t told the kids that she was ill,  since then I have been told that she is now in hospital and so I have told the kids she is sick.

I’m having some very weird thoughts.  Because Mum and Dad are already dead and my grandmothers husband in the 18 months after Mum, I kind of feel as though if my grandmother dies I will be the next person to fall off the perch so to speak.  See I told you it was weird!

Pity Party over. Can someone please pass the chocolate? And maybe slap some sense into me while you are at it?

Thanks!

Today I’m feeling green…Envy

Just some things I am coveting today:

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A warm place to relax.  Me time, oh yeah.

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A pretty flower… Or better yet a bouquet of flowers.

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Chocolate. Enough said.

What things are on your list?

The ABCs of Me

Um…. I have nothing really this evening so I thought this would work.  I borrowed it from Tina Gray{dot} Me.

Enjoy!

A – ACCENT: Australian

B – BREAST SIZE: Bigger than I want.

C – CHORE YOU HATE: All of them.

D – DAD’S NAME: Is that a trick question?  I called him….. Dad. :)

E – ESSENTIAL MAKE-UP ITEM: I use Lip gloss sometimes, does that count?

F – FAVOURITE PERFUME: I’m so not a perfume person,

G – GOLD OR SILVER: Gold

H – HOME TOWN: I was Born in Sydney but now live in a different capital city.

I – INSOMNIA: Oh yes.

J – JOB TITLE: Business Manager

K – KIDS: 2 human, no goats.

L – LIVING ARRANGEMENTS: Home with Mr E., Boy Child, Girl Child and the pets.

M – MUM’S BIRTHPLACE: Sydney

N – NUMBER OF APPLES YOU’VE EATEN: In my life? Wow, I have no idea.

O – OVERNIGHT HOSPITAL STAYS: A few.

P – PHOBIA: Not phobic but don’t enjoy being too close to big (more than a 20 piece) spiders, snakes and don’t plan to ever get too close to a shark.

Q – QUEST: To get out of life alive?  I guess that’s not doable.  Maybe to live well and be happy.

R – RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Christian.

S – SIBLINGS: It’s complicated.

T – TIME YOU WAKE UP: As late as possible.

U – UNNATURAL HAIR COLOURS YOU’VE WORN: Spray on red, purple, green, and  blue.

V – VEGETABLE YOU REFUSE TO EAT: None that I remember.

W – WORST HABIT: Chocolate, I mean stress, no wait caffeine, umm can I get back to you?

X – X-RAYS YOU’VE HAD: Arm, ankle and foot (1 once and both once), chest.  I think that’s it.

Y – YUMMY FOODS YOU MAKE: Cakes and biscuits.  At Christmas time shortbread. 

Z – ZANY QUIRK: I’m not sure I’m zany or quirky.  Now if you had asked about annoying then I’m your girl.

School Issues: Some Positives and Negatives

A few posts ago, I was having annoyed with our school about aide time and other things.  As I mentioned somewhere here Boy Child has been accepted into the High School we wanted for him.  I have returned our acceptance of the placement and now am hit with the logistics of this.  The High School is about 20 minutes drive from our place.  Or Boy could take a bus which is a 30 to 40 minute adventure depending on which bus, etc.

Boy is very uncomfortable in public.  He has lost his ability to ask for help and apparently hates buses. The issue with driving is that Girl currently goes to our local Primary school but starting only slightly later.  So I am wondering how this is going to work logistically.  Part of the reason we selected the High school we did was it is only one bus away.    Now when I was really frustrated with the current school I thought Hey there’s a primary school not far from the High school.  I’ve heard good things about that school why don't we just move Girl child to that school.  So I dropped in there yesterday and today we had a tour.

They can take Girl child next year.  Yay.  But they start 30 minutes later than the high school. Boo. And to do this, I would be driving a minimum of 80 minutes a day and have to hang around with Girl for at least 20 minutes in the morning, every morning.  So that is 100 minutes out of my day (in reality not that long, I know).  On the plus side she wouldn't be late.  Also instead of going home I could always park myself at a Gloria Jeans or somewhere else with free Wi-Fi and work there remotely.  Or we could send both kids on the bus, at least one way but would still have the issues with Boy and while he is quite responsible I’m loathe to make him responsible for her or her responsible for him depending on what is going on.

Despite having issues with our current school I have managed to get some resolution.  I have discussed the issues of aides either being removed or reallocated and am okay with the answers.  And the child who depended on their aide too much?  Apparently they still have aide time at the moment and their parent is okay with that. 

I also had a good response from higher ups at our school about transition to High School which is a bonus.  I have a meeting scheduled with Boy’s teacher later to discuss what is happening with him (but she is great and I expected no less!).

Of course Boy is still very anti going to the High School. He and a friend (I use that term somewhat loosely) have decided that Boy needs to either do really badly or get expelled so then we have to enrol him in the local High School.  It’s funny the way 11 year old boys’ minds work.  What’s even funnier is that Boy Child told me their great plan.

So what would you do? If school had sucked as much today and yesterday as it did a few weeks ago I would have no hesitation to move schools for Girl.  But they came through on a few issues. And I know that first appearances aren’t always accurate when you are trying to sell something.  And long term… 100 minutes a day adds up to a lot of time.

NaBloPoMo theme for August is GREEN

So what does green mean to you?

I’ve been thinking about it and while I’m tired I am very impressed that I have thought both inside and out of the box.  So here are my very deep and interesting thoughts:

• Green is a colour,
• being green is being environmentally friendly,
• an untried or inexperienced person is referred to as green,
• jealousy is referred to as the green eyed monster and you can be green with envy, and
• people can be described as looking green around the gills or a bit green when ill.

I somehow managed to lose this post once tonight already.  I had thought I had another green thought but it has gone.  So tonight I am going to leave you with a slightly melancholy thought from someone who has way more experience than me with this.

It’s not easy being green.

Thank you Kermit.  Good night, all.