Well, we’ve had a very eventful summer already and NOTHING has gone as planned. Well I shouldn’t say nothing, but pretty much my plans thus far have all been changed.
Life really does get turned upside-down in the blink of an eye, epsecially when Mommy is involved. We had been running “Mommy’s Summer School/Camp” just as planned when I ended up going to the dr one evening at dinner time and not going home, for 3 days. It ends up that I needed to have emergency surgery. This means, all the kids were now attending “Daddy’s House of Fun”. Our Community stepped up big time and the 4 older kids were invited to attend 3 days of Camp Gan Izzy while Daddy was back and forth with the youngest visiting me in the hospital and supervising naptime. I have to say that I was glad to get home, but am still trying to recover in time to disappear for a week with the youngest.
“SO that;s just a few days” you say. Yes, that was. But the 4 older kids got lucky and “Daddy’s House of Fun” has been extended for yet another week (even though Daddy is now back at work). As life does happen, they are now attending another week at CGI and Mommy is working on healing as fast as humanly possible in order to travel out of the country in 5.5 days. This means, another week lost for “Mommy’s Summer School/Camp”.
For most kids, a couple weeks off is nothing. It’s well deserved and usually they will get back into the swing of things easily and thats it. But my special child is not “most kids”. Each week off is another week we lose on either catching up or retaining what has been learned already. Its a struggle to keep the momentum and the change of routine can be a killer for everyone. All I can say is “Thank G-d” we haven’t had too much trouble. This time around.
To sum things up thus far, my kids are hitting the jackpot this summer and are getting 2.5 straight weeks of total fun while they attend 1.5 weeks at CGI followed by ANOTHER week at karate camp (while mommy disappears for a week).
Last night, while at a function, my husband was cornered by some administrators from the school we sent our son to this past year. You know they are desperate when…….. We still haven’t told them a definate answer about returning next year. They really want to work with us on some things but we still aren’t sure about other things. The behind the scene problems are not enough to change our mind, yet. So once again, we are back to talking about either keeping our son home, or sending him to school. Until then, I will keep on working with him on the curriculim that we did buy already and keeping tabs on what he is doing right now. I would hate to stop what we have already done at home. We’ve already submitted 2 math tests for marking and are finishing up a grade 1 workbook before moving on to grade 2 stuff. After we hashed some things out for 20 minutes I had said boy running to grab his workbook and complete some pages (I actually sent him to get his reader since we missed a few reading sessions together, but he came back with this on his own instead). Oh, and we found out that he didn’t learn the concept we were working on! How can I send him back when I see that he hasn’t learned what other kids did learn in other schools? My lovely husband says we should humour the school and talk with them together and bring up all of our concerns. I am not sure how much I want to talk and listen at this point seeing as anytime I did talk to them last year, amounted to nothing. I am not a fan of people trying to talk you into something you already made a decision about. I HATE second guessing myself and decisions! What I can definatly say is after observing my son working with me, one on one, he is one smart cookie who just needs that right person to dig it all out. He may seem like he isn’t paying attention but he really is.
So what have we learned the last 2 weeks? When life throws you lemons, make lemonade!