All that in one year? Grace is such an amazing kid. And you are the opposite of a parenting fail, you are amazing too. I know you don't want to be given kudos for just living your life, but you and K have given those kids such a great life and you deserve kudos for it.
Fuck you lady.
Seriously.
Also WTF is she talking about? I'm pretty sure it's not truancy when it involves hospitalization.
I was coming in here to share the pride/facepalm that is Isaac. When I call the kids to dinner, Isaac throws an epic fit that he has to eat and can't play Wii until after dinner. Uses a few choice cuss words, starting with "dipwad" and ending with "fucking idiots." Plus throws punches. Loses Wii. Loses his last nerve. Cries and screams and shrieks for the next hour. Takes a bath to calm down. Sobs uncontrollably for 20 minutes in the bath. It's a bad night. And then as I get his lunch out of his backpack, I notice a note from the school. He tested into the Gifted program.
That's Isaac. He's smart, but poor kid seems to have inherited his Dad's impulse and focus issues and my Hulk-like temper. oops? Love him anyways.
Dude. Grace pwned learning this year.
mugshots vs. facebook photos.
Sadly, some of those folks looked better in the mug shots than their profile pics.
That mug shot site is mesmerizing.
That mug shot site is mesmerizing.
Isn't it? I can't get over it.
Sadly, some of those folks looked better in the mug shots than their profile pics.
Yeah, but the ones who didn't, WOW.
And what about the ones, usually women, who look almost as posed and composed in the mug shot as the profile pic?
don't you think they are almost always DUI (or related)?
Things that break my heart:
I just discovered that Charlie is
afraid of hangers.
Whitefonted for a few people, just in case.
Thank you for your kind words. Grace is pretty amazing and I'm super proud of her. It's just... she's pretty broken too. She has a lot of work to do still. She doesn't understand math even a little - I mean, we're going to have to learn it all through rote. The concept of addition is beyond her. She will NOT work independently so in her next IEP goal, we'll need some stuff about independence too.
It's just hard because the dreams you have for who your child is going to be... well, I sort of have to come to peace with abandoning that. And it's hard. Yes, I know most parents face that reality, but to think that she will need people constantly is just overwhelming. Unless I take it day by day. Which is all I can I guess.
Plus work. GARGH. Everything is hard at work because on the one hand I have colleagues I'm trying to protect from themselves and on the other I'm pulled thin. I need to figure out what I can willingly give up next year because I can't do another year like this. Plus we have accreditation next year, and I've been asked to co-chair the accreditation committee (and by asked, I mean, my other co-chair was told we'd been assigned to do it).
I am the only teacher who teaches all kids in a single grade PLUS an extra class of other kids in a different grade. I cannot handle it.
That is much too much, Kat.
Oh, Lee. That is sad.
I just got spam trying to sell weather vanes. I'm not sure why that seems more strange to me than the spam that promises to increase my member.
