Well again I have been absent. I apologize. Life was insane last week. Ray and Brycen went to Washington D.C. on a 3 day field trip with the school and that left me to be a single, working mom. It was rough. I was ready for bed each night with the kids but we managed and we did a pretty good job of it at that! :)
I am uploading the pictures as I type. They took over 300 pictures on their trip. Brycen loved having daddy all to himself for 3 days and Ray enjoyed the alone time with Brycen just as much. It's good for them. You just can't beat quality time with your child. I got that with Faith and Trevor while they were gone and I loved it. It's amazing how much easier it is with 2 than with 3. I had forgotten how hard that jump was when we first did it. Going from 2 kids to 3 kids was the hardest adjustment of them all. It was nice just to have 2 for a few days. Although, I really missed my other 2 guys.
A lot has happened in their school life as of late and I haven't posted about it. I don't know if you remember but the school wasn't following Brycen's IEP (individual education plan). I had held a team meeting and informed the school that I was going to file a formal complaint with the Department of Education. I did. They found the school non-compliant and gave them a list of things that must be met. In the same week Brycen's Special Education Teacher took a leave of absence and now everything is a mess. Brycen is falling to pieces on a daily basis. I am trying to keep him together and not doing such a great job. He hates change and this is a huge change for him. He is fighting me tooth and nail on all school stuff and his "old" Special Education teacher has his report that is due this week in her computer and I cannot get her to e-mail it to me which is causing him greater stress. It's been a bad week and we are only at Tuesday.
Faith has been sick since Friday. She has Adeno Virus. She started with a fever and a sore throat. I was convinced it was strep. She had a rapid strep test done and it came back negative. They sent it to the lab to have it grow and that came back negative too. Her fever spiked to 103.6 and I was starting to panic. I had a hard time keeping it down. We tried motrin, tylenol piggybacked together. I tried tubs and even let her play in the hose one day. It went down to 101.4. Finally yesterday it was down to 100.4. An improvement but what came with it was conjunctivitis in both eyes. :( Now she has a very stuffy nose and a congested chest....all part of this virus. It's just hanging on. She tires easily and eats very little. She wasn't even drinking for days and I was really worried. She looks like herself this morning so she is on the mend. I kept her home for good measure again today and I will send her back tomorrow. She has missed 3 days of school because of this virus. Hopefully, the other kids won't get it because it tends to end in pneumonia for lots of kids and we know that Trevor will be one of those.
As far as Trevor is concerned I had to make a very difficult decision this week about his classroom for next year. As you all know we are year round/multi-age. The kids keep their teachers for 2 years. Because we added 6th grade this year it meant a grade reconfiguration so this years 3rd graders will get their teachers for 3 years instead of 2.
Trevor has a wonderful teacher. I have known her for 13 years. I adore her. She was the librarian when Brenden was there, then Brycen had her for 2 years and Trevor is in his 2nd year with her. Trevor has become complacent with her. He knows her well. He knew her before he got there and the last 2 years he has learned exactly what he can do and what he can't do. She is an incredible teacher but he just is not pushing himself anymore. I had to make a very tough decision about next year. I spoke with her and we have decided that it would be in Trevor's best interest to shake up his world a little and move him for next year. It was hard. It's so hard to leave a teacher that you know and love and go into the unknown. It's hard for me and I know it will be extremely hard for him but I think it's just the push Trevor needs to be all that he can be.
We have decided not to tell him yet. I had asked him last week how he would feel if I moved him for next year and he told me "I will be so mad at you and I will never forgive you". Let's hope he didn't mean it. I just want what's best for him. I know he is capable of more than he is showing and I think he will strive to impress a new teacher. I think it will be good for him. I just hope he sees it that way. Say a little prayer for us. This could get ugly.
So that's it in a nutshell. I am cleaning like a fool this week. I do it at the beginning of every summer before it gets really hot. That way I just have to maintain until fall. I gutted Faith's room yesterday and hauled 2 large lawn and leaf bags full of junk out of her room. Today is the boys turn. The sad part is they won't even know it's missing.
I am also about to sprinkle lots of hot red peppers around my lily bulbs. Some stupid skunk thought it might be fun to dig up the 2 that had just sprouted. I am so mad! I may call my brother down for "target practice"! :0...did I really just say that? Lilies are my favorite and this skunk picked the wrong yard to mess around in.
I hope you all are having a great week! :) Pictures will come this week. I promise! :)
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