I have not felt like posting in quite a while. I have thought about it a few times but have neglected the thought just as easily. Ever since my grandma passed away I have been PISSY. I grieved for her, but at the same time have just flat out been a bitch. I cried and cried and cried with my grandpa, but with my grandma I have cried and been pissed. I am not sure WHY I have been so pissed, but it has been the attitude that I have taken on. I am doing much better now but still have my pissy moments.
Our Christmas shopping is all done. The kids are getting a lot of the things that they want for Christmas and they are already wrapped and under the tree. It took a few outings to get all that we had on our lists but I think overall it went well. The kids had their WINTER party on Friday so I went up there and split my time between the 3 classes to get pictures of them all. My youngest stayed with his great-grandma for a few hours and enjoyed the time with her. My younger daughter made a gingerbread house, the other 2 made ornaments. My youngest will get to see Santa on Thursday at his school so I am going to go up to his school for that.
The school decided to test our younger daughter for the gifted program. She did not qualify this time but they plan on watching her and most likely test her again. She scored high on 3 of the 4 tests that they took on her. I am not sure what all was involved but I am sure that once she gets a little more learning in she will probably qualify next time.
Our older daughter had her first basketball game 2 weeks ago. They lost 34-0, which in our eyes was not too bad considering the girls had only had 1 practice before their first game and that first practice they did not have any basketballs. The other kids had 4 or 5 practices before the first game, we were just unlucky to have Thanksgiving, an ice storm and a Winter program get in the way of all our practices. This past Saturday they had a game and only lost 12-0, which is amazingly better! They finally had a practice ( with basketballs) last Thursday. Their next game is not til January so we will be able to get a few more practices in and hopefully win a game!
Also with out older daughter we have decided to take her to a chiropractor, she had her first apoointment yesterday and we will go back today to see if there is anything the chiropractor can do for her headaches. We have a few friends that have had problems with headaches and have gone to chiropractors and now get them very infrequently so we are hoping that this will work for our daughter. She is also scheduled to go to the Mayo clinic in Minnesota in February. They have a pediatric unit up there and at this point we are willing to do whatever we can to help our daughter with her headaches.
Our oldest is still struggling with school and had a really bad time after my grandma died. He is starting to pull himself back on track but we have decided that we are going to start him on the ADHD meds to see if we can improve things. We struggled for the longest time on whether this is something that we want and have finally decided that we can give it a shot and if we do not like the results will take him off the meds. But at this point we really need to worry about him and his learning.
Our youngest is loving school. He has been there for a little over a month now and is really starting to show improvement in his speech. I am sure by the end of the year we will see a great change with him and he will be ready for kindergarten next year!! At that point I think that I am really going to get involved in their school activities and will be spending time up at the school volunteering.
I hope that everyone has a great Christmas. Only 6 days away!!!