I still don't know, but raising a boy from birth has shown me this: it's biological and there's not a damn thing we can do about it, lol!
And why does the US have to be so far from the UK?
Right?! What we need is a TUNNEL!
Not much going on here, yesterday I played a golf comp and didn't play that great, can't win them all huh
Why not?!
Today I've had Jess off ill, she feels faint and sick and slept for quite a bit. I can't believe that after only 1.5 weeks at school she is off already.
I sent him to school anyway, but Leo's not feeling so hot, either. I swear, each start of school brings a new bunch of germs in. Bleeeh!
Hi Jen!
She had done her research about all of her students and the first day of school there was someone in the class to start helping TInk with her fine motor skills and helping her catch up with Letter and number writing and identification.
Tink attended 2.5 years of PreK, yet she still is struggling.
That's great that she gets some extra help! I understand - Leo doesn't qualify for anything, but he still struggles with things here and there. He was tying his shoelaces long before the other kids, but to this day can't ride a bike. He was multiplying numbers before he had a clue what multiplying was, but rounding to the nearest hundred is making us both crazazy!
ATTENTION ATTENTION ATTENTION
JImmy's Homework was done without a fight or a tear shed
Awesome!
Have to go to the oncology PB/GYN doctor tomorrow !! Hopefully this time the results will be better !!
Sending you good thoughts Rosie!
They came with a fridge at about 1130am. When the super walked in with this thing I nearly lost it.
Are they freaking INSANE?!?! That sucker's from the Eisenhower administration! And I'm just betting... they get away with this crap because it's NYC, right? Ugh.
So, the stress of quitting and all that could only mean one thing, right? Add on a day to our trip!
LOL, love it!
It felt so good to get up and do the things I needed to do for my family this morning instead of having to get my lesson plans together and pack my lunch. I have time to sit and chat with the kids and give extra hugs and listen to their stories.
Nothing is worth missing all that.
Okay, I'll 'fess up... I'm jealous! But very happy for you!
Just wanted to pass along that TE's busy working, but her ear surgery seems to be working! She's hearing well out of it, telling the kiddos to turn stuff down!
Thanks Mel - what great news!
I am in the market for a new pair of running shoes. Anyone have any recommendations?
Me, I do! FYI, my definition of "run" is a lot like my definition of "hike."
I mostly walk at a brisk pace, and sprint for 30-45 second blasts. I was talked into Asics last time I bought, and they're the best I've ever had! I think mine are either Nimbus or Cumulus, but they're last year's model, so who knows what that is now. But they have a gazillion styles for a gazillion foot conditions, so you'd need to find your right one, anyway. I seldom follow the replace after 350-500 miles rule... and I need to start. The moment I switched to new skeaks, my knee and back pain went away.
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Morning! Homework still sucketh, but I think we're getting somewhere.
I found a nifty little website that had rounding exercises, sort of like speed drills. I had Leo do that for 5 minutes last night, and it helped a lot! The kid just needs repetition.
Which brings me to this - do your kids review homework the next day in class? They don't here. What good is homework, if you never go over the answers and how to get them?! I swear, for the amount of teaching I'm doing at home to make up for what Leo misses in school, I should just homeschool and be done with it.
Anyway, the ex continues to act like a butthead, but that's nothing new and I should just stop letting it bother me, right?!
My schooling is interesting... I'm taking a Reflective Learning class and our first assignment was to find our dominant intelligence, per the Multiple Intelligences theory. No surprises for me (does anyone doubt that I'm heavily weighted to verbal/linguistic and waaaay low on logical/mathematical?!) Here's the quiz and details if anyone's interested - it's interesting to do for kids, too! Leo, near as I can tell, comes out heavily Naturalistic and Spatial. Interesting.
http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/index.php?title=Multiple_Intelligences_and_Learning_Styles
But I wear Reeboks and love them
It's really just a title change from Probation Officer 4 to Probation Officer V...but it is more money
and have a 
all around!
It took a few days, but Leo's finally got rounding down, and last night was making bad phrases into good sentences... it's somewhat alarming how quickly he understood that and got the answers. Looks like I might have a mini-me on my hands; poor kid. 
