TWERKS / DDOTS

[covergirl82]

Any updates or other things to share?

[covergirl82]

I'm a little over month into my new job. So far it's been pretty good (week 2 was a bit stressful) and I've gotten very positive feedback from my manager.

[sdlaura]

So last week I was worried about having to take the 3-hour glucose test because with my last pregnancy, my 1-hour number was borderline (in the 130s). This time, the result was 89. So really low. I was really surprised, but I guess I'll take it.

[mae0111]

Our new contractor starts tomorrow. I've known this family since I was a kid, and his brother does all of our plumbing work (and has for years, in all of our old rental properties as well). We are getting a clearer schedule of work, have a floor guy and a painter on deck. I'm feeling hopeful.

School stuff has not improved. I went to a PTO meeting today that was like... wow. Preschool moms telling 7th-8th grade moms how stupid all of their ideas are. 7th-8th grade moms firing back about how their "stupid" ideas have raised tens of thousands of dollars each year for the school. Me sitting back, wishing I had popcorn. But the principal wasn't there, which calmed me down quite a bit.

Work is ramping up. I'm finishing up phase 1 of a new project, and will be kicking off phase 1 of another next week. The Incredible Vanishing Contractor was my 3rd client, so that's out. DH is going to need me to do a few things for his company, so that will be interesting...

DD1 continues to have pretty good behavior. She tries to help, and has been channeling her energy into cleaning, of all things. She's a tremendous slob most of the time, so I'm riding this wave while I can!

[186momx]

DD now has an IEP for speech. It was done over the phone this morning in 20 minutes. Her teacher asked me back in January if I was okay with DD being tested for speech. Speech pathologist did a sit down and chat visit with DD end of January and agreed she needed to be tested. I had a pre-test/pre-IEP meeting on the 18th of February. DD had full speech testing last Friday and I'm just now waiting on an email for me to sign the IEP. She needed to be below 7% to qualify and scored at 1% for the letter/sound "R". Once I sign the speech pathologist will do pull outs once a week for about 10 minutes and they hope to have it all fixed by the end of 5th grade. From everything I read IEP are huge and time consuming and I'm so shocked that speech would be a full blown IEP. We also talked about state testing but I had opted DD out so it was mute. Today I feel good about that decision because her teacher told me she did a happy dance when she got DD's opt out paperwork.

On other good news. DD was told Tuesday night that she gets to compete in the meet we are hosting on the 22nd of March. DD is super happy and told Jon last night during their private and he said "that's good but we have lots of work because I want you to be able to tumble without me" which shocked DD.

[rere]

mae0111, that would be war at our old school. There was a group that came in at a critical time when some big money needed to be raised. We actually had the opposite problem. This group of veteran moms, who were pretty battle scarred, kind of took over for years. After we left, everyone kind of didn't know what to do. Truthfully the younger moms felt uncomfortable jumping in or just figured it was handled.

[mae0111]

rere - due to the way we’ve been treated this year, I have nothing invested. I think the younger grade parents were super rude to everyone, but sometimes the overt rudeness is better than the “bless your heart” passive aggressive nonsense that the “polite” moms sometimes project.

I just attend because I’m a room parent, I have to go and take notes and report back to the class. Since I care about nothing, I report nothing. Win!

[traveltheworld]

We had DS's parent teacher interview today and it went as well as could be expected. His teachers raved about him and said that he's a sponge and soaks up information, and that he's kind and considerate. That just makes our decision of whether to move him to the gifted school that much harder.

DH's contract is finally coming to an end so he'll be unemployed for a while. But we are prepared. And I'm actually looking forward to him staying home for a while to get a better handle on the kids/home. I feel like the last few months we've just been barely hanging on.