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A continuation of my original blog, "Surviving Motherhood". |
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Welcome to my world of middle school, high school, and motherhood. The life of a mom is never easy, especially as children grow, and especially when you have a special needs child. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| Tomorrow is the last day of freedom for the kids. Starting this year, they will be returning to school after Labor Day, which is tomorrow. The open houses were insane. I regret that we went to the 6th grade one, but in my defense, I thought we had to. I mean, I suppose we did, but I didn't really get anything out of it that I couldn't have gotten at another time. At any rate, when all is said and done, she's quite ready to go. I hope the A/B day schedule doesn't mess with her too much. I'm kinda pissed that I didn't get to meet with her case manager while we were being herded about the school to find things, but hopefully she has some news for me after the end of Tuesday. If I don't get answers, I will go into that school myself and ask. The good news is, she's with Grace in about 4 classes, and that makes me really happy. It also made Melissa really happy too. I hope the girls can stick together. I know that a couple of my other girls are on the same team (they split the grades into two teams, 6-1 and 6-2, and continue to do it up to 8th grade), but different teachers, and I know a couple of my other girls are on the other team. I hate that they're all separated from each other, but hopefully we can all get back together when we start meeting again. I'm currently waiting for approval to start meeting at the middle school. That's a story for another day though. Journey seems very eager about her classes. I'm excited for her. A bit nervous, but excited. I hope her days go well. I hope she gets a case worker that works well with her. I hope they follow her IEP. I hope she remembers to go to the nurses office and take her medicine. I'm nervous, but I think she'll do great. Going to Ryan's proved extremely necessary. The school is humongous, there are only 2 floors, but there's 6 staircases that lead from each side of the building. There's an A side of the building, and a B side of the building, and then there's the C side, and then the trailers outside, and sometimes when you think you're in the A side, you're actually in the B side, and sometimes the B side spills out to the end of the A side...heavens. Ryan gets the fun of trudging up and down the staircases every day to follow his schedule. It's funny, because at first I was upset that Ryan won't be playing soccer this season, and he also opted out of taking a gym class this year. After walking his schedule twice, I'm pretty sure he's going to get an excellent dose of cardio every day. This makes me happy and relieved. When we attended Ryan's open house, there were some upperclassmen in the halls, ready to help any freshmen that were looking for a particular room or area. Ryan was a bit lost looking for his biology class. A very wonderful upperclassmen took a look at his schedule with him to find out what room number, then looked at his schedule once more and quipped "Dang, you're smart!". I couldn't help but beam. Ryan is very academically gifted. His classes consist of Certificate of Merit classes, Honors, and AP (or Pre-AP, as in the case of his Language Arts class, as freshmen aren't allowed to take an AP ELA course.) He's got some hard courses ahead of him, but hopefully he does well and can keep up. We also ran into the high school band member that Ryan's old band teacher wanted Ryan to talk to. He's also a clarinetist, and is usually first chair in all tri-county and all county honors bands. He was happy to meet Ryan, and give him some pointers on being in band through high school. I'm not sure if they play together or not, and I'm not sure if he's a junior or a senior this year, but I think there's a lot of things that Ryan can learn from him. He grinned when he met Ryan and shook his hand, and told him "Your band teacher told me I needed to watch out for you!", which is a HIGH compliment from his former band teacher. He was signed up to take chorus this year as well, because he's a performing arts academy student, and the chorus teacher was thrilled to meet one of the academy students. I take it there's not a lot of them for the performing arts in band and chorus. I know there's a whole bunch of them for theater. I do think that chorus is going to do wonders with his breathing techniques, and help him gain better breathing and air flow for when he plays his clarinet. I hope that helps him. Ryan also made it into the youth orchestra once more. He practiced his piece pretty well, and he made it in again. Not to say that Ryan isn't talented, as he is EXTREMELY talented, but we've managed to catch some breaks, as clarinet is usually a gateway instrument into other instruments, such as the saxophone. Since Ryan has made his clarinet his home base instrument, there are a lot more doors opening for him, because it's hard to find good clarinetists. Bands and orchestras alike are always looking for good clarinetists, but they're very hard to find, as usually when someone gets good at clarinet, they ditch it for a different instrument, and kind of forget about playing clarinet altogether. We will get our last few days of relaxation in, and then Tuesday, we start a new chapter. Mother to a middle schooler and a high schooler. Never realized the day would come so fast. |
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