My day with the "family"

Trying to write my blog, but everything I want to write about invovles other people and even if I use fake names for them people who truly know us will know who I am talking about...  I know I will blog about Saturday!!!

At dinner on Friday night we found out that Sam hurt his foot skateboarding.  On Saturday morning Gus getting into his ‘Chuck Steak’ uniform and I was thinking of all the stuff I had to do when Sam came into the room to ask about a bruise on his knee, it looked good but his foot was still swollen.  He then told us that it happened Thursday not Friday like we thought.  I ended taking Sam to the E.R. where we spent 3 hours for a deep sprain while Chuck Steak went to Run-a-Mucca on the bike.  The kids drove me crazy all day, I want that, she touched me, he looked at me, it was all so much fun.  Luckily my friend Michelle texted me and invited me to the Dollar with Jenine.  It was fun, Miles Long and Peter Dragin were there.  We all sat and chit chatted about Peter eating calf balls and Miles thought they would be really gross, till Chuck Steak and Whiskey John came back.  I had to finish my to-do list and Chuck Steak didn’t really seem to want to talk to me so I left to grocery shop.  (Yes, I went grocery shopping, I have real food in the house for the first time in 2 weeks!)  That was fun as always.  I get all the groceries put away and relax by doing laundry until Chuck Steak texts me to come get him.  I go back to the Dollar and my Michelle gets me my soda and I sit with Chuck Steak and Peter and DOW shows up.  DOW is interesting, she is about 50, nice when sober, and a little slutty when drunk.  When she is drunk I really don’t care to hang out with her.  After watching her hang all over the very married Peter, Chuck Steak and I came home.  Wow that sounds like a very boring day, I guess you had to be there...  

I should have better stories next week after all the parties I have to go to...

Help for Sam finally

Okay I decided that this would be better as a weekly blog.  I just don’t have the thoughts to do a daily one...

This past week was informative.  For people who do not know, I have 2 children from my husband’s first marriage, Sam (15) and Krissy (13) in addition to our daughter Katie (9). 

On Thursday I had a meeting at the high school for Sam, he is failing 5 of 7 classes.  At the meeting we discussed the fact that he has not had passing grades since 4th grade, and there is FINALLY something that can be done about at school.   At home we have tried everything, rewards for doing the work, he spent 6 months being grounded for not doing his work once, sitting with him to get work done, and I even went to class with him in my big flannel pajamas none of that worked but none of that worked.  Now after fighting with him for 6 years the school has stepped in and is able to help.  He has an IQ of 111, but has the math skills of a 4th grader and reading grades of a 6th grader, and with the large gap between his ability and his performance he has qualified for Special Education classes.  Next year he will be a Freshman again with the possibility of having some Sophomore classes.  I think that with the smaller class sizes in the Special Education classes he will do better and I know one of his possible teachers for next year and I believe that they will work very well together.  He also has shown quite a bit of interest in continuing his drafting (he is passing that and PE) with Mr. Aikenhead, my old drafting teacher.  As it stands right now we will play the wait and see game and hope for the best.

UPDATE: Sam will be in 4 Special Education classes next year (Study Skills, Math, English, Science) and 3 'regular' classes (Computers/Health, English, History).  He choose most of his classes for next year and is excited about having smaller class sizes and more teacher help.

What I should be doing

I was sitting here thinking that I need to finish laundry, Will's quilt, Lyndi's quilt, Girl Scout paperwork, dishes, and clean off the table when I decided, that this might be more fun...  I guess we will soon find out.  That is after I send children to bed for getting into my make-up again...