Oct. 25, 2006
God works in mysterious ways
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It has been so crazy the last few weeks. Let me say that hsing is going good. We have only had one day in the last couple weeks where I was wondering if I was going to get through the day of school. That is saying alot because in one week both of our cars broke down. One is only three years old and the transmission went.THREE years!!! Just four days before that we found out that our other car would cost $1600 to inspect it. That is only $200 of which is labor. All the rest is parts. Well you can imagine my dismay. Needless to say we didn't even have a quarter of the money to fix either one. Plus, we both had to get back and forth to work. Dh has no problem taking the one that is uninspected but I do because #1 I don't want a ticket and #2 I refuse to allow my children in it.Since I babysit out of the home and the kids go with me, this was really a terrible thing. So dh had to go to work early and watch the children every day after he got home from work while I went to work. Thankfully it was only 3-4 hours a day. I had to drive the uninspected car. So for two weeks we have been stuck at home. Thankfully so many people out there care about us that they all came together in their own way and helped to pay to get the newer car's transmission fixed. So by Friday I should be able to finally take my children places with me. It may be hard to believe but when I am seperate from them even a few hours I miss them. I must hit the hay so I will be bright eyed and bushytailed tomorrow. God Bless!
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Oct. 12, 2006
Enjoying my blessings
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There have been many times in the last three years when I wondered what I was doing with my life and where is it I am making a difference. now I know!! We have been back to homeschooling for three days now and there is such a peace during the day. My ds may still try to get out of doing some of his work or want to take a break every ten minutes. In the end though when I say it is time to get down to work, he does exactly that. I know there will be days I will be tried but I am up to the challenge. Watching my son learn and knowing that in 5 years it will be my dd learning right next to him gives me so much joy. I have truly been blessed in my life. I have great kids. They are so happy and loving. I want to wrap them up and protect them from this cruel world but I know I can't. So instead I will pray over them everynight as they lay their heads down to sleep. That God will give them all of his blessings and that his angels encamp around them everyday as they go out among the world. For they are HIS and I am only here to watch over them for HIM...
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Oct. 12, 2006
Starting back with a better attitude
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Just a little information to start off with to explain. I have been homeschooling my ds for two years. This would have been the third. I homeschooled for preschool then we decided to send him for to school for Kindergarten. He loved it. He is just like me a social person. So there he was able to meet all these friends and he had a great teacher,BUT!! During that year it took alot out of me. He was threatened on the bus to be shot by some kid with his dad's gun. Noone took this serious as the kid was only in first grade. That is how we have ended up with all these shootings in school. Noone takes these kids seriously. Also during the year many things happened that could have been prevented if the teachers and school kept a better watch on the children. Just goes to show noone takes better care of your kids than you, yourself. I then homeschooled for first and second grade. It was really hard. My son wanted to go back to "real school" as he called it. Half way through second I think he finally figured out he wasn't going back and he stopped asking. Then a few weeks into this year we decided to send him back to school. I had just had a baby in March. After 8 years of trying to get pregnant, going to a fertility specialist, and not getting pregnant it came as a big, very exciting, suprise. It didn't really change homeschooling all that much. I just got to the point where it seemed my son hated reading. So that is why we decided to send him back. He went back for one and a half weeks. As soon as we put him in they did all this testing on him. Some they did with my knowledge and some without. Based on their testing my son needed to go back to second grade to catch up on his reading skills. We said noway that he would catch up with everyone as the year progressed. It was only the beginning of the year. So as a trial basis they let him stay in third till Columbus Day vacation.They would watch to see if he was stressed or acting out because of the work. I specifically asked the Principal what academically she expected my ds to show her in a week and a half and she said nothing. Well that sure changed. At the end of the time she brought paperwork where my son still needed some help with reading. Did she bring the 100 that he got on his Spelling test or the100 he received on his A.R. For those of you who aren't familiar that is a reading test on the computer that he takes after he reads a book. It made me so mad. Halfway through the meeting we walked out and said we would be back after we talked. As a family, my son included, we decided to homeschool instead of leeting them have their way and send him back to 2nd grade after he has already done the work. So here we are. The school didn't like it but they don't have a say in the matter. They were worried they would get in trouble if they put him in 3rd and he didn't do well and the state came to check out the school. I am in this 120%. I am doing all I came to help my son get back the love for reading he used to have. Plus I bought Hooked On Phonics,the advanced reader, because I heard it was really good. I pray everyday that I am the teacher my son needs me to be....
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