First of all...I HOPE I have grabbed all the quotes. But knowing me...probably not!
Nini I honestly don't know how you homeschool. It scares the bejesus out of me. I have thought about it several times but I am just petrified.
I can't believe you are trying another date. Hope you get it nailed down soon
Home schooling is the only option. Having my child fed sugar and then locked in a closet was horrible. It isn't too bad...except on those days when I have doubts. Yesterday was one of those days!
Finally talked to hubby about the dates in October...he nixed the idea. Mr D doesn't really matter about his school, since we can and do home school at Disney. Miss B has an overall 97 average (even though she is in middle school) so we aren't too concerned about her missing. My ace in the hole is the fact that if they complain I just pull her out for a few months to home school and then put her back in later.
Sorry you are so stressed. I know what you mean about him knowing something one day and then having trouble with it the next. I could have written that post. School is frustrating for us too. It is hard to teach someone who constantly has to relearn.
I wish I had some great advice but like you, I am muddling through. I am always willing to listen though.
I think I just needed to vent a bit yesterday...and evidently he did too! At his OT appointment yesterday he spent the better part of the hour complaining to his great therapist, Harrison, that his Mom was nuts! We have this great understanding with all his therapists that Mr D can say whatever he wants to ... it is good that he is starting to recognize his own feelings.
Harrison worked with him a bit showing him how 4 plus 2 is six. Everything they worked on had that equation in it. Surprisingly at the end of his session...Mr D made a comment about how we were both right. (although Harrison's original premise that there were sometimes two sides to a story was lost on Mr D!)
Sometimes it is hard for me to remember that with his injury, a set in stone kind of day doesn't work for him. The state may have their idea of how many minutes he has to sit in each class...but it does not work for Mr D! And while I know he is getting more 'school' at home than he was in Public school, I sometimes worry that the "home school police" is going to get me because we miss 30 minutes of school ...
ARGGGGHHH!!! is right. It's too much planning and too much $$$ to have everything so fuzzy.
Maybe the school district saw the title or your PTR and figure it wouldn't matter when they planned breaks???
Cheryl...I think you are so right...maybe I should have had a more covert name...
Homeschooling Luke terrified me and soemtimes I still worry I am not the best teacher but school was a nightmare and I know he is getting more from me than he did there. His behavior changed drastically. He was a wreck when he was in school, crying, tantrums daily, etc and now while he still has rough days they are not nearly as often. Maybe two or three a month. So much better.
Well, we went from them calling me once a day to pick him up early (or putting him in an isolation room)...even though for three days of the week he was only there for a half day! Went from that to having major meltdowns ever 2 to 3 weeks (we still have minor ones every day). So I guess we are doing something right!
I really think as 'Moms' we have a better idea of what our children need. I also think we know better when our child is just trying to get over on us!
Nini I probably won't be any help but I would love to go in October and see all the Halloween decorations and go to
MNSSHP
And Heather has some cute Disney Halloween designs
I am jelous of any school system that has a fall break. I never heard of that until I started reading about if on the DISboards. We only get Columbus Day off.
I keep getting that message too but I've been texting to enter though and those have gone through.
I have already picked out our MNSSHP shirts! I am going to use the Hitchhiking ghosts!
Truthfully, I am not a huge fan of Halloween. I always had to share Halloween with my birthday. (yes, I got a lot of teasing growing up that I was really a witch!) I had much rather go during the Christmas decorations time frame!
In fact hubby and I had a talk about it and decided we really want to go during Nov/Dec to the point that he said he would look at his budget one more time to see if he can swing the extra $2000 in case we can't get free dining. The only thing he liked about our Sept/Oct dates was the fact that we could go swimming. I reminded him we could go swimming anytime at home...see that big thing of water in the back yard with the deck around it?
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So far, January has been a pretty good month as far as the business goes. I have made a profit already...which I did not expect since I paid out such a large amount for the software! But Hubby's business has been sidelined since around Christmas. He has a stump grinding business. Unfortunately his machine has been out of commission since Christmas. He got it fixed, and the very next job it broke again. The only good thing about that is it is getting fixed for free...the bad thing is they have sent him the wrong part twice! I am stalking the UPS man every day waiting for the replaced part again! Then it will take a couple days to get it fixed.
Now is not a good time for him to rethink the budget for the trip!
I am really getting antsy to start some detailed planning...had a confirmation (not sure how reliable) that POFQ now has free WiFi in the rooms! If this is true it will save me about $100! I can't be without my internet!
And..... I really want to go to Disney during the annual Disbou meet... in order to do that I need to have a larger profit this year. Hubby isn't completely sold on the idea of going after Thanksgiving and then again the end of January! LOL! So I might just leave him at home and only take Mr D!
Nini
went up to $3.50 last year.
But it's a pain ... so my daughter-in-law told me that she had put her mother's sewing machine up in the attic and that I could use it there on the weekends and keep my machine at Sarah's during the week. (The sewing machine is a very old Kenmore and the only thing that she has that was her Mom's who passed away a few months before she started dating our son). So I get the machine out of the attic and clean it up...thread it...put in a bobbin...it felt like I was at home with an old Kenmore that I had from 1972 to 1999 when it died and Sears told me it was not fixable. Anyway I put a piece of fabic in and ................ IT ONLY SEWS BACKWARDS!!!!!
And the fact that this machine holds sooo much sentimental value is so wonderful - I would give almost anything to have my mom's old sewing machine - but when I asked my dad about it - he said it was given away years ago. 
I have a class in a few moments, so I'll try to come back later with something hijack-worthy. 
I hope you are able to set a date soon.
