Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Crazy Busy Week

This week following Thanksgiving has been extremely busy. As the PTA President I am in charge of the Holiday Shop at the elementary school. This project has been a major undertaking. The time to organize, inventory, set up, and maintain the shop has taken much more time than expected. So far the kids love the opportunity though so the extra work is worth it.

Not to mention we are still dealing with Corbyn's dangerously low platelet count, other appointments at Children's, pre-audition meetings with the Denver School of Arts for Celidah, college and dance classes. All in all I am discovering that I simply cannot continue the current schedule so the kids are going to have to drop some dance classes.

Right now I am trying to figure out which days to drop being at the dance school and trying to decide which classes are going to work with a set schedule and not impact any classes. However, I am not seeing an alternative to mess one of the two up.I am thinking I may drop them each down to two classes, except for Zach and Chantelle and leave them in one only. The new dance schedule will begin in Jan as we are already into Dec and the kids have auditions for lead roles for the upcoming show.

One unforunate factor is the owner of the dance school does not seem to understand that when one of my children misses school due to illness they also must miss dance. This is for a couple reasons, one I do not want my kids getting others sick, and if they cannot complete school then they need to go to bed early not work their bodies really hard. Also when they are sick they are more likely to get sicker due to a lower immune system.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Happy Birthday Jade

Thanksgiving is over and it is now time to start decorating for Christmas. The kids are very excited to be getting ready to start some of our family traditions. The first one which will start tomorrow is pulling all the decorations out of the garage and starting to decorate. The biggest favorite at the first of December is watching the Polar Express while setting the tree up. When we watch the Polar Express we always eat hot biscuits and have hot chocolate for dinner. This will be perfect with after 3 days of snow.

Tomorrow is also Jade’s 10th birthday. What a special day for her as she too has come a long way. I find it hard to believe that 7 years ago she was diagnosed with autism and we were told her outlook in the social and functioning end was a dreary one. However, here we are 7 years later and she is now in the 3rd grade in a fully regular education class and no IEP supports.

We are so proud of how far she has come and how well she is doing in everything.

Happy Birthday Jade!