life stuff
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Our mailbox is down the street in front of the neighbor's house. Needless to say we don't check it often. We know when the bills are due and pay them online so... I don't know, we just forget to check it. So I sent the kids out to get the mail and there was a ton. On top was a letter from the school post dated April 20. So I open it and there are 2 papers. I open one and it's some kind of test results for our oldest, Meagan who is in 5th grade. I kind of glance at it but I have no idea what it is for or when she took the test. Shrug.
Then I read the other paper which is a letter from the school counselor. According to the letter because Meagan scored 90% or better on this test she qualifies for the "Highly Capable" program. I'm supposed to go to their website and check it out. We were kind of shocked. My husband grabbed the letter out of my hand before I finished reading it. We've always known Meagan was smart. Not like some of these genius kids you hear about that are reading at 18 months and doing calculus at 5. But she's smart. Smart-ass, too. Too smart for her own good we always said.
When it came to school she had it pretty easy. She learned to read in kindergarten. Started the year a couple months after turning 5 barely knowing her alphabet and by Christmas was reading short sentences. By May, still 5 years old, she was reading Junie B Jones books on her own and then telling me what they were about. Those are chapter books geared towards 2nd graders. Not an amazing feat but I was proud. She never struggled in school and just about everything came easy except for math. But she breezed through that until the 4th grade (last year) and then started having issues with multiplication. But her reading and other subjects she aced easily with almost no effort. Because she refuses to put any effort into anything she does. She is the laziest kid I've ever known.
When math became too hard to get without effort she just gave up and didn't even want to try any more. Now in 5th grade, at this new school, she is finally getting it. Slowly but surely.
The deal with Meagan, though, is she has zero motivation and wants to do as little work as humanly possible. When we mentioned the program she freaked out. She doesn't want extra work or to have to actually try at school. I'll check out the website in the morning. I'm still kind of surprised about the whole thing.
On another note... my external hard drive decided to die. I keep all my photos, scrapbook pages, stories and everything else backed up on that hard drive. Now I can't access it. Grr. With my computer always near death itself I'm freaking out. If my computer crashes I lose just about everything. I have some stuff backed up through like winter on another computer (that doesn't really work). But I can only back stuff up by transferring to the external and then to the other computer. Argh.
Oh, but on a better note... Jack is now saying "mama". More of a babble still but I think he's finally getting that I'm mama. He kept following me around going mamamamamamama and crying because he wanted to be held and I had things to do. He refused to go to my husband because he shaved all his hair off this morning. Jack keeps looking at him like he does this little girl down the street that he's terrified of, lol. He has also decided to stop crawling on his hands and knees and has taken up the bear crawl. He's so freaking cute.
Also: We're going to go register kid #4, Nora, for kindergarten tomorrow. I can't believe it... kindergarten. She's five. Wow. Unfortunately, while looking over her immunization record it appears she needs a few shots. She's not going to be happy. So I had to go look up providers in our area. I think I found a practice for the kids to go to. So we'll get her set up for her check up and shots. We're debating taking Jack. He's uninsured and hasn't seen a doctor since he was 5 days old so he's way behind on his shots. But without a SSN we can't get him insured (even with state insurance which he qualifies for) and we can't get him a SSN until we have proof he is who we say he is. They want a note or something from a doctor with his name, our names and his DOB. If we take him in we'd have to pay out of pocket for the well visit which would probably be $180 or so (that's what our old ped charged for an initial visit). That's without the shots he needs. Those would be another $500 or so (at least). We can't afford that.
Anyway, I also found a potential family practice for me and hubby in case I decide I need to see a doctor for this illness. And a mental health clinic for when I get the chance. I could get back on my meds. Wouldn't that be nice.
reading: One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming. The last in the series. I might just go back and start reading them all over again, lol. I zipped through 6 books in 2 weeks and now have Clare and Russ on the brain.
writing: nothing... but trying to start working on my NaNo novel again and hoping to finish up at least one of my started short stories.
Our mailbox is down the street in front of the neighbor's house. Needless to say we don't check it often. We know when the bills are due and pay them online so... I don't know, we just forget to check it. So I sent the kids out to get the mail and there was a ton. On top was a letter from the school post dated April 20. So I open it and there are 2 papers. I open one and it's some kind of test results for our oldest, Meagan who is in 5th grade. I kind of glance at it but I have no idea what it is for or when she took the test. Shrug.
Then I read the other paper which is a letter from the school counselor. According to the letter because Meagan scored 90% or better on this test she qualifies for the "Highly Capable" program. I'm supposed to go to their website and check it out. We were kind of shocked. My husband grabbed the letter out of my hand before I finished reading it. We've always known Meagan was smart. Not like some of these genius kids you hear about that are reading at 18 months and doing calculus at 5. But she's smart. Smart-ass, too. Too smart for her own good we always said.
When it came to school she had it pretty easy. She learned to read in kindergarten. Started the year a couple months after turning 5 barely knowing her alphabet and by Christmas was reading short sentences. By May, still 5 years old, she was reading Junie B Jones books on her own and then telling me what they were about. Those are chapter books geared towards 2nd graders. Not an amazing feat but I was proud. She never struggled in school and just about everything came easy except for math. But she breezed through that until the 4th grade (last year) and then started having issues with multiplication. But her reading and other subjects she aced easily with almost no effort. Because she refuses to put any effort into anything she does. She is the laziest kid I've ever known.
When math became too hard to get without effort she just gave up and didn't even want to try any more. Now in 5th grade, at this new school, she is finally getting it. Slowly but surely.
The deal with Meagan, though, is she has zero motivation and wants to do as little work as humanly possible. When we mentioned the program she freaked out. She doesn't want extra work or to have to actually try at school. I'll check out the website in the morning. I'm still kind of surprised about the whole thing.
On another note... my external hard drive decided to die. I keep all my photos, scrapbook pages, stories and everything else backed up on that hard drive. Now I can't access it. Grr. With my computer always near death itself I'm freaking out. If my computer crashes I lose just about everything. I have some stuff backed up through like winter on another computer (that doesn't really work). But I can only back stuff up by transferring to the external and then to the other computer. Argh.
Oh, but on a better note... Jack is now saying "mama". More of a babble still but I think he's finally getting that I'm mama. He kept following me around going mamamamamamama and crying because he wanted to be held and I had things to do. He refused to go to my husband because he shaved all his hair off this morning. Jack keeps looking at him like he does this little girl down the street that he's terrified of, lol. He has also decided to stop crawling on his hands and knees and has taken up the bear crawl. He's so freaking cute.
Also: We're going to go register kid #4, Nora, for kindergarten tomorrow. I can't believe it... kindergarten. She's five. Wow. Unfortunately, while looking over her immunization record it appears she needs a few shots. She's not going to be happy. So I had to go look up providers in our area. I think I found a practice for the kids to go to. So we'll get her set up for her check up and shots. We're debating taking Jack. He's uninsured and hasn't seen a doctor since he was 5 days old so he's way behind on his shots. But without a SSN we can't get him insured (even with state insurance which he qualifies for) and we can't get him a SSN until we have proof he is who we say he is. They want a note or something from a doctor with his name, our names and his DOB. If we take him in we'd have to pay out of pocket for the well visit which would probably be $180 or so (that's what our old ped charged for an initial visit). That's without the shots he needs. Those would be another $500 or so (at least). We can't afford that.
Anyway, I also found a potential family practice for me and hubby in case I decide I need to see a doctor for this illness. And a mental health clinic for when I get the chance. I could get back on my meds. Wouldn't that be nice.
reading: One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming. The last in the series. I might just go back and start reading them all over again, lol. I zipped through 6 books in 2 weeks and now have Clare and Russ on the brain.
writing: nothing... but trying to start working on my NaNo novel again and hoping to finish up at least one of my started short stories.
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Date: 5 May 2011 09:59 pm (UTC)