Post by supertrooper1 on Jan 8, 2021 12:43:08 GMT -5
DS is home with me today and I think home on Friday's is going to be the new norm for him. STBXH had an issue with the daycare we've used since DS was 6 months old and he found a new option for DS on his weeks. I decided to continue to send DS because his decision really had no effect DS or me. Friday's are asynchronous and just as I was thinking how exciting it was watching him navigate his own computer and do work independently, he had a melt down on not being able to follow the art project video. But he's back on his own doing math.
Beau and I decided that since it's not supposed to rain tomorrow that we're going to try to go riding. It may end up just being logging road riding since the trails will probably be too muddy and snow will be at higher riding elevations. Some mud is fun but not when the mud is so deep that you get stuck.
I have the girls for tomorrow night, even though it's my off weekend. Why, you ask? Because their step mom to be is turning 21 and exH is throwing her a birthday party at their place. So he didn't feel it was appropriate for the kids to be there. I swear, at least once a week I have a "how is this my life?" moment with him.
Other than that, I'm tackling the girls' bedroom. New furniture arrives tomorrow, so we'll be organizing and building and getting that all set up.
We have our two older kids home on Fridays, so it's a lot of juggling keeping them occupied with trying to get some work done. They each have a zoom with their classes at 8:15, and not really anything after that (because DS1 doesn't get a lot of Friday assignments and DD finishes all her work earlier in the week). I'm on a weekly internal meeting and trying to pretend to pay attention.
Housecleaner was supposed to come Wednesday but had a childcare issue so she's coming at 11:30 today. It's been a month, so I can't wait for a clean house. But that means I need to get the kids out of the house. They have YMCA skateboarding 2-5, so we'll leave at 11:30 and go to another skatepark, then get something for lunch, then I'll drop them at 2 and try to get most of a day's work into the next two hours.
DS2 is 3.5 and obsessed with the book One Morning in Maine, and keeps asking to go on a boat, like every single day. His preschool teachers say he's also been talking about it at school. So tomorrow morning we're renting a pontoon boat for an hour on a lake nearby. I hope it meets his expectations
Only other weekend plans are big kids skateboard lesson Sunday morning. I'm debating seeing if our occasional babysitter is free at all this weekend. Nothing is open, but it's been a reallly long time since DH and I have been out of the house without kids. Even if we got takeout and went to my parents' empty condo, that would be nice.
twinmomma my face went like this when I read your post 😳😖😦
We have sports this weekend. DD1 has basketball Sat and Sun. It conflicts with boxing so no boxing this week. DD2 has soccer outside on Sunday, so that should be cold.
I haven’t totally taken Christmas down. I hate to do it. The tree is gone but the house looks so nice. I’m not ready for the long blah winter. But maybe I will work on that.
Work is pretty light today. I've finished everything I can and now I'm waiting on other people. Just got the call from school - DD and DS1 go back to hybrid next week! DS2 also goes back to preschool. Then, in February, DS1 will go to school 4x per week, while DD is 2x per week. DS2 goes to preschool 3x per week. I'm already setting up my calendar to keep this all straight. I can't wait for some peace and quiet. It will really help my anxiety levels. No weekend plans here. Maybe a game or movie night?
I haven’t taken any Christmas stuff down, mae0111. I love how our house looks with our stuff out. I’ll do it this weekend.
DD has a STEM showcase she decided to sign up for. We need to do her science board and do her video explaining her project this weekend. It’s due on the 15th.
I have to drive all the way to work to get my water bottle I left there yesterday. I know it's stupid, but it's the only one I like and.. what else do I really have going on? Nada.
Soccer is the only thing on the agenda this weekend. DS has a love/hate relationship with it, with most of the "love" portion seeing his best friend who... won't be there for this mini-session. I knew it when we registered, but I maaaaaay not have told him that.
My oldest has a swim meet all weekend. I also need to take her shopping for new winter gear because nothing fits. Since March she has grown 3 inches and has gone from a size 4 shoe to a womens 9. Good news - I don't need to buy her snow boots because she can just wear mine now!
First Friday back to work. Its quiet and I'm getting a lot done. My hip is killing me so I've been standing because it hurts to sit. Told DD if we were super productive today we would go home early. First week working until after 5 and 5 days is hard on all of us.
I'm in zoom update school from 9-4 tomorrow. 26 code words given every 10-15 minutes that need to be written in order on my evaluation form so I get my CE credit. The zoom has over 400 people registered last I heard. The materials are over 150 pages.
DD just meet with the school counselor over zoom. It seemed to go really well. DD's teacher sent her two different math tests to take and send back to her. If she passes these she will be moving to 5th grade math.
Today is a light day at work and no school until Monday. So I invited the neighbor kids to come play in the snow. One went home cold, but the older one is still here lol. Other than that a fun weekend of getting oil changed and tires rotated.
We’ve been popping by breweries for an outside beer so maybe we’ll do that. We were going to see family in MI, but my FIL has some medical tests and a minor procedure so we cancelled.
In good news my work cancelled our quarantine for travel because it’s just as bad here as everywhere else, so I’m glad for that. Fingers crossed my in- laws can get vaccinated this month. They are in phase 1B.
Taking down our Christmas stuff, the tree and everything is still up. Now that we all feel less sick, I am ready to tackle it. Also, the kids go back to in person school (for the first time since Thanksgiving) on Monday. So once I get the Christmas cleanned up, I need to sort out all of their supplies and textbooks to send back on Monday. It's all in a heap. The school sent home all the school supplies at Thanksgiving, and they are scattered about or in the e-learning heap. So, that will take awhile.
Post by mustardseed2007 on Jan 8, 2021 15:35:21 GMT -5
twinmomma, how is he not super embarrassed? OMG how gross.
I can't wait for the weekend. DS has a playdate tomorrow but I'm not sure if it's at the kids house or ours...I'm very much hoping its at the kids house. Sunday another playdate but its at our house. Which is fine but I just want to veg this weekend.
Apparently our principal mentioned today at the PTA meeting that kindergarten registration is really low this year (for next fall). Duh. You haven’t been opened for nearly a year....at all. And online kindergarten sucks. There are lots of private schools that have in person kindergarten and we live in a wealthier part of the district where people have means to pay for private schools. Of course kinder enrollment will be down until the district can figure out a way to be in person. No one wants online kinder. As of today, I have zero intentions of sending DS2 there next year but did register just in case a miracle happens.
sandandsea, is there where I say thanks for the reminder since I haven't thought about registration for kinder at all? If we are still distance learning, he's going to private. The question is do we keep him in kinder (daycare does kinder at this location) where he is or pull DD also and put them in private elementary?
sandandsea, is there where I say thanks for the reminder since I haven't thought about registration for kinder at all? If we are still distance learning, he's going to private. The question is do we keep him in kinder (daycare does kinder at this location) where he is or pull DD also and put them in private elementary?
I’d send them both to the private together. If we are still distance come august (ugh) we will be sending ds1 to a private school. I think Dh and I will have to return to the office in June so we can’t support distance learning forever.
sandandsea, is there where I say thanks for the reminder since I haven't thought about registration for kinder at all? If we are still distance learning, he's going to private. The question is do we keep him in kinder (daycare does kinder at this location) where he is or pull DD also and put them in private elementary?
DS did K at our daycare and it was great for him. He missed the cut off anyway by 5 weeks. So then the next year he did half day public school K then daycare which wasn’t as good (the daycare part because it was a repeat).
I would try to keep the kids together at whichever school you choose.
Taking down the trees and finalizing plans for a virtual baby shower I'm throwing this month. I'm picking up my niece and nephew tomorrow and they're going to come to our house to play and have a sleepover. They moved into their new house today so DH will help them move tomorrow while I keep all the kids busy.
k3am , We pulled both kids out of the district this fall and sent them to private. The district is still online here. It is really nice having both kids at the same school. It means that they have the same days off and everything. I would suggest that it is way easier if they are both in the same place.
k3am , We pulled both kids out of the district this fall and sent them to private. The district is still online here. It is really nice having both kids at the same school. It means that they have the same days off and everything. I would suggest that it is way easier if they are both in the same place.
I would love this. But ds1 is way way way behind the requirements at the private school ds2 goes to. It’s easy to keep DS2 there because he’s been there and it’s kindergarten so he’s not behind. Ds1 is on grade level at public which puts him about 1.5-2 years behind this private school. So we’d have them at two different ones which kinda sucks but isn’t that different from what we’ve done the past 4 years. I was supposed to get two blissful years where they were at the same elementary school but it got covided.
Sigh. DS’s teacher wants to talk about his progress. He’s not doing well this year. He was just getting on a good track in kindergarten when Covid hit. We got a diagnosis last year in January of a neurological condition that required him to have a little extra help. His kindergarten teacher was awesome at it. His first grade teacher has been much less awesome at it. Basically unless we tell her to do something, she’s not trying anything to help him be successful. Then he missed the first grading period in 1st grade. He’s been back one grading period and he comes home every day with pretty much none of his work done. She said he isn’t concentrating. He says the other kids are too loud. It’s just... frustrating.
So now this weekend I have to worry she’s going to say we should hold him back. We really don’t want to do that. We would rather put him in a different school.
Post by traveltheworld on Jan 8, 2021 23:20:55 GMT -5
This weekend will just be unwinding from a hectic work week. I decided we will do the 1,000 hours outside challenge so we'll try to bank some time outside as well.
And add me to the school woes - DS had online school this week, so I got to see firsthand what he has been working on. He was supposed to do this little presentation on a "passion topic", and man, he needed so much help. I was shocked. Ds's academic performance has been something I never thought I had to worry about. I now realized that though he reads at a junior high level, he can't write out coherent thoughts.
If we didn’t pull DD for private, she would continue doing DLS at daycare, so they’d be at the same location. It’s just annoying to pay as much as we do for a DLS program when for a few hundred more, she could have in person private. But if they both went to the private school by our house the cost for JUST school day is a few hundred more compared to a 7:30-5:30 day where they are.
k3am put them both in private. Of you really think they won't be back in the fall your daughter is going to need the real school and it's what is best for both of them
ETA even they do go back it might be in her best interest to go private. They might be better at making sure she is caught up
k3am, Do you have multiple private options? Their prices might vary quite a bit. We live within walking distance to 2 private catholic schools. For our a parish, which we are, one is literarily double the cost of the other one. We went with the cheaper one, and the class sizes are pretty small (8 kids in K, 13 in 3rd grade), and one of each grade.
sandandsea, There is some stuff that DS is definitely behind on compared to the kids who have been there. Math and reading are great, we learned a bunch of new math in the spring, so he was right on track, because the district wasn't doing anything and I like math. The writing and grammar on the other hand has been an adjustment. Also this whole having spelling tests thing. But he has been so happy to be in school that he has been happy to work on it. But he also had a particularly bad teacher for online school in 3rd grade before we pulled him, 10 years as the special resource teacher and first time with an actual classroom. She was way in over her head in a pandemic.