What have you been up to????

So we've been in school for over a month now and it hasn't been the most enjoyable experience. I figured I'd have to be a "hands on Mom" when it came to Fro's schooling, but this is ridiculous. You know the saying, "You can never go back", well whoever said it did not have kids. I was called the second week of school to take Cloe home, I believe it was around 8:30 in the morning, school starts at 8:05! Her major offense was running away from the teacher. I refused to take her home, as I explained to the principal it was rewarding her behavior, so I gave them two options 1) I sat in the class room with her to reinforce what the teacher did or 2) I take over the principals office, they supply me with the curriculum for the day and I teacher her there. Luckily they picked option one. It's gone down hill from there and we are at the point of figuring out which school she will be transferred too, by my request.

Her Dr. had us fill out the Conner's questionnaire, it's used to diagnose AD/HD. When we went to the appointment for him to give us the results he informed me that he didn't even evaluate the teachers questionnaire because it was so negative it wouldn't give us any usable results. I have to say I felt vindicated with that statement, I seriously thought I was going crazy and Fro truly was the spawn of the devil! She has been diagnoses with AD/HD and we are seeing a councilor who thinks she may have Aspergers syndrome in addition to the AD/HD. What an adventure we are on!!!!! The good news is we are getting some answers and we have the option to change her schools, I just feel she has been so negatively labeled she will not get a fair shot at her current school!

Wasn't sending our kids to school suppose to give us a little break and not be so difficult?????

Life is pretty exhausting right now, and I thought I didn't sleep when I was in school!!!!! We're working through it though. I really like her councilor and she seems to like her too. We have a big meeting this Wednesday with people from the district, including the superintendent and the district director of special education as well as myself and her councilor so we'll see what happens.

I hate to say it but that's pretty much been life for the last month. I am on information overload and had to take two mental health day's to recover. O.k. I only planned one, that was bamboozled when Fro was suspended, so I made up for it a little when my car decided to blow a spark plug and had to be fixed! The nice thing is that bad things happen in three's so I should be good for a really long time! Oh, my kitchen facet had to be replaced after giving me a shower and I as trying to do dished Tuesday night! Life is an adventure!!! :)

Anyway, Fro is showing no scares at this point, which is good. I plan on getting her into a new school before we see any. It's pretty exhausting for her. As you can see from the picture below she was so tired one night she couldn't even get up to turn off the light, all she could do was reach for the bowl she was playing with earlier (don't ask me why she was playing with it) to make it dark enough for her to go to sleep!