Hi everyone. Sorry I was MIA the last two days. TOTM did come and it was not pretty. I ended up taking Friday and Saturday as rest days because I had no energy. Then I decided to go on to week two of the rotation, and I thought the workout was supposed to be Hiit LBC but it was Hiit UBC, so I screwed up this week, already. It's okay, it called for LBC on Friday, which I will make my rest day. I will do UBC tomorrow and then follow the rest of the week, except Friday.
I had to have a phone conference with my younger DS's teacher because he just seems to be struggling so much with the math and reading and it is getting to the point where he is very frustrated and getting angry about it. We think he has dyslexia.
After doing more research online, I am almost positive he has it. In kindergarten he wrote certain numbers and letters backwards, and although he has stopped doing that, when he is upset or frustrated he does it more. A lot of signs that he has it. So we have a doctor's appt on Wednesday. We need to get a referral for a neurologist and the teacher is scheduling an IST meeting, which I am thinking I want to get an advocate for the meeting. If he has dyslexia, I want him to get all the services he is entitled to and working in a public school, I know that districts sometimes won't provide all the services needed because they want to keep their numbers down, and so on. Well, it goes on in my district and it infuriates me. The parents that come with advocates always get what they want for the most part. I know I am getting defensive at the beginning, but I don't want him to continue to struggle like this. It is heartbreaking. Anyway, couple this with my TOTM, I have been crying on and off all weekend, ugh!
My dog has been so stir crazy. I was able to walk him this morning, but he was still nutso. I took him to a different dog park, further away from my house, but a nicer area. It was huge and the other dog owners were more knowledgeable about proper dog park etiquette. There were no dog fights and he had a blast. He ran around with a German shepherd the whole time. He is exhausted! Mission accomplished because now we are going to get him with freezing rain, sleet and dare I say more freakin' snow.
Deb- I am so sorry to hear about your DH. That must have been so scary and upsetting! Lucky he didn't hit his head, absolutely!
Wendy- It stinks to have not been feeling well for so long. Take it easy. If it makes you feel any better, my scale number wnet up to and I'm working my butt off, but eating like crap, so it's totally my fault. Ugh!
Belinda- I see you are almost done with the Xtrain rotation. What are you going to do next?
Cookie- I had to laugh at your 7.5 hours of paperwork. It never ends. I caught up on all my grading and now I have a new test to grade, which has a lot of writing on it. I hate myself sometimes, I swear! Why do I do this to myself? i have a meeting with the curriculum specialist to talk about what my lessons will be to prepare students for the test. I want to say that I have decided not to prepare them at all, because what the f#$$%$^ is the point? Half of them won't take it and the other half will make pictures with the bubbles because they know this test does not count! Plus, I have a theory they might do better without any prep at all, lol. Can you tell I am losing it?
Kristin
