I've learned that making plans is just a suggestion for how I would prefer things to go. It's by no means a definitive timetable/action schedule. It's taken me years of motherhood to accept this, but now I just sort of roll with it. For instance, I mentioned in my Saturday post that I hoped to get back on the computer and write about last week. Well I am, just 48 hours later than I thought I would be! In addition, I am supposed to be working again today, but JR is home sick. I'll be honest, I don't mind one bit being at home.
I worked every day last week, except Monday when HT was home sick with a bad cold. We also had four baseball games last week which obviously occupied our evenings. The boys are really, really enjoying being coached by their dad, and my husband is really enjoying coaching them. It's a really great experience for everyone. We also had an IEP meeting for JC last week. She's been on a speech IEP for years, but we are finding that there may be a few more issues in how she processes things. So far she is doing fine in school, rather well in fact, but I have just noticed some things that concern me. Her teacher and speech therapist all agreed that giving her extended time for her testing, particularly standardized testing, would benefit her. I'm not so much worried about the time as I'm pleased that she'll be removed from the classroom and placed in a small group in order to take the test. I think that will be very good for her.
The kids had a very exciting weekend. HT was invited to the birthday party of his very best friend, and not only was it an overnight party, but they were kicking the evening off at BounceU. Needless to say he came home Saturday morning absolutely exhausted, but he had loved every minute of it! JR went straight to a scout overnighter after his Friday evening game, and didn't return until Saturday evening. He was able to move up a rank in scouting, and there wasn't a whole lot of sleeping happening there either. Saturday afternoon was a 5K walk/run to benefit JR's soccer coach who is battling cancer. JR wasn't home early enough to participate, but JC walked. I'm very proud of her for completing her very first 5K! She went along with her best friend, and I was home with HT and the younger children of many of our friends. All together there were six kids here, and that was when I thought I'd be on the computer. They were all enjoying the outdoors though, and I was outside getting some yard work finished while they were all here.
My kids had asked what I wanted for Mother's Day and my answer was simple...I wanted to sleep in! Because the kids had been so worn out from there activities, they all slept later than I did! It was funny when JR woke up yesterday and came downstairs at nearly 10:00. He said, "I thought you wanted to sleep in." I replied that I had slept in, but that he had slept even later! We drove to my grandmother's and had lunch with her, my parents, sister, and my aunt. My sister and I decided to run up to visit my other grandmother who had been hospitalized late last week. We were surprised to get up there and discover that she was being discharged and was just waiting for someone to take her home. Got to love the communication in the family! So our quick "how are you visit" turned into quite a bit more. We are glad that she is home and resting though, and that it doesn't seem to be anything serious causing her to feel poorly. We still had to help my parents move some things at their house because they are having the entire house painted starting today, so it ended up being a much longer day than I had anticipated. I mentioned to my husband that maybe next year, we would celebrate me being a mom on the day before the actual Mother's Day, because the day itself never seems to be terribly relaxing!
I think that pretty much catches us up on everything that's been happening. We have more ball games, work and karate lessons this week, and who knows what else the week will bring!
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