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Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote. Long time for me, anyway. I never did do my weigh-in. I seem to be lacking a stable surface in which to place the scale permanently. Who knew? LOL.Things are still pretty chaotic around the house. It seems like there just isn't enough time in the day to get everything done. That, and I am trying to do too much. I seem to be having some kind of emotional reaction to moving back into my house. There are marks and dings on the walls that we didn't make. Stains on the carpeting that I don't know how it happened. Scratches in the countertops that we didn't create...and it all REALLY bugs me. I have been hell-bent on cleaning/sanitizing/painting/fixing everything before I will allow us to "move into" those areas. The hallways were bothering me everytime I walked down one because I didn't know what it was that was on it. So I have decided just to paint the entire house. I seem to be marking my territory in my own way. Weird.
Of course, I am already making plans to rip out the carpeting and to remodel the kitchen. And my poor family is just trying to put up with it all. I finished the master bedroom and now that is ours and I hope to finish the office tonight. Our new office furniture was delivered today so I need to finish painting the office so that we can have at least two areas of the house that are settled.
My son doesn't seem to be adjusting to school very well, at all. We had a conference this morning with his teacher and she was, of course, pushing for ADD medication--as the public school system always seems to do. Why do they do that? Why does every boy who is bored in school need medication? Why must something be wrong with him instead of wrong with the system? Maybe the system needs to be medicated and taking therapy, and not my boy? Ever think about that?
His teacher says he can't do the work. I have SAT test results that place him at a 6th grade level a year ago and he passed their damned 3rd grade state test with lots of room to spare. How does a child who can't do the work get those kinds of test grades? I asked if he looks like he is interested in class, even during hands-on activities and she says "no." Hello. Doesn't that speak volumes? Alright, I need to quit ranting. I think I will take him back to the therapist we saw a few years ago when the last public school teacher was pill pushing. As eager as therapists are to diagnose ADD for a parent, he wouldn't. At least some people have a brain and still use them. Finding those people are getting harder and harder to do.
posted by Cindy @ 12:22 PM
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