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I've been so unbelievably tired lately. We're really struggling to get all our school work done these days. It's a huge blessing that Ninja is loving and doing her own curriculum but I'm battling to get Tink and the Dude's work done. Little Princess is still extremely demanding and it's taxing to work around my extended family's schedules as well as our own.

I've been trying to "socialize" the Dude. I know, I know that's a bad word to homeschoolers, but I think my boy needs it. He seems in a much nicer mood when he's been out and about interacting for short periods of time with others. My plan is to take him to tot class at the zoo and an art for youg learners class with our homeschool group every other week. I was really stressing about that. I couldn't see getting in those classes and getting all our other school work done for the day but I realized that for him, interaction and spech therapy will be more important and useful than academics so I'm simply going to do a reading lesson from 100 Easy Lessons on those days. While it may take us a bit longer to finish his kindergarten curriculum it'll be well worth it if he can pick up some skills that are more useful in the long run. Now the trick is to make it through the long waiting lists for speech and occupational therapies.

 We've been waiting for speech therapy since May 14th and occupational therapy since the middle of June. I called the local university because I heard they do speech therapy for their graduate speech pathology program at a greatly reduced price but that's also a 6 month wait.  I'll turn in the paperwork soon so we can at least get our names on the list.

Pray for shorter waits for us!