DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

The school year is done, finished, gone!!!
Seemed like a long year, and I'm so glad to have a break. Not sure that I really learned much, maybe patience, tolerance, and the ability to control my temper concerning  one of Grace's teachers.
Over all it was a good year, Grace's grades were great. She even managed to get through geometry . I guess I did learn the difference between geometry and geography, just don't hold me to anything.
Not sure what we'll do over our summer. For those that don't know we managed to get a van with better gas mileage so we just might be able to sneak in a few day trips.
I need to catch up on my Monday inchies..... and maybe I'll paint Grace's bedroom this summer. Since I promised to do it for her last birthday.
Thanks for listening to all my rantings. Happy Summer:)

6 more days

I am probably as anxious as the kids are about the end of each school year. It does get old going everyday, or not everyday as is our case.
The seniors are pretty much finished their last day they had to attend classes was yesterday. My sweet ( she tries to act tough but she's not fooling anyone) daughter went to the local bakery/sandwich shop and ordered cookies for her senior friends.
As she said goodbye to them she gave them their cookies. I think there were some tears involved with some of them. One particular senior she's known most of her life. He was in my preschool class years ago and his mom worked with me at the school when Grace was a little older. He's been like a big brother to her.
Some of the other kids she's known for years. Living in such a small community they all get to know each other in elementary school and they remain friends.
Grace has no idea how she impacts others' lives. She is so spunky that it's easy to forget she's in that chair. When you actually do remember it makes her journey through life that much more amazing. She endures so much everyday, but she manages to remain mostly cheerful and keeps enduring.
I was looking through her yearbook and was surprised at how many of her friend's told her how inspirational she is.  She will make a joke of it but I think it takes a lot for someone her age to be so honest and mushy.
Six days to go. I think all of her projects are finished, just finals to go and then a little break!!

funny questions

Some days are just plain weird, this was one of them. Nothing in particular, just one of those days where it seems as if everyone is saying things that don't make much sense. Aside from the things I heard the students saying, most of which I'd rather not hear, there are days that the adults don't make much sense either. Today a teacher was quite excited about a report on flamingos. I must admit that she was more entertaining than the report was, it was her questions that had those of us in the back of the room cracking up. Maybe it was how serious she was when she asked 'Who would eat a flamingo?" It was almost as if she was asking which of the students was going to volunteer. But I almost wet myself when she asked how many baby flamingos came out of an egg..... I think she was serious! Oh my goodness, I think it's normally just one egg ,one chick. The poor girls giving the report looked at her thinking it was a trick question and that they'd missed something important.
I guess I'm just happy to know I'm not the only one that asks "interesting" questions. Nine more school days to go!!!!!!

Chair Woes

As we were leaving for school this morning Grace's chair made a loud crack and something was not right. Her chair has a really cool tilt function that allows her seat to tilt back and helps her stay comfortable, not get pressure sores from sitting all day and also helps her position herself for optimum lung functions. Well, her seat will tilt back but not come back down, every time she tilts a little it goes back a little further. At this point shes afraid to keep trying to get it to come back down because the way the switches work, it has to go back a little more before it tries to come down. She'll be in a full tilt and there's no way she can breathe all day flat on her back. Have an appointment tomorrow to have it looked at.
Funny on a day that she feels good and was ready to tackle the world she's grounded. As for me I'm not looking forward to the drive to have it looked at tomorrow, especially with gas prices sky high, but on the bright side I have time to clean house :)

Pink

Happy Monday
This week's inchie is all about pink  I have no idea why but I wanted to use beads this week. I also wanted a yellow background against the pink beads. I thought I would make a flower, had some seed beads to use but it was UGLY........somehow my pink turned into a sun? I don't know what it is, but it is pink. :)



personalities

Only 15 days of school left for this year. The big push to finish is upon us. Grace finally caught up in all her classes last week , now she just has to get all the year end projects completed, then benchmark and final tests.
Looking back I think the greatest thing we've both learned this year is how different personalities (talking bout teachers)  react to her needs. Seems like the more secure in themselves types were more understanding. The "I'm so intelligent and you're not" type really can't see beyond themselves.
Grace had mostly great experiences with teachers, but there always seems to be one tossed in that just doesn't know how to work with someone that might miss more school that normal. Doesn't seem to me that it would be too hard to set papers to the side for Grace or be forthcoming with her about what assignments were assigned when Grace asked what she's missed.
Will be glad to not have that teacher again next year, I think if she's put in that person's class again I will request a change.
I guess there could be worse things going on, it's just been frustrating!

will the end never come???

Sure feels like as we get closer to the end of the school year that the hours tick by slower. I am soooo looking forward to a break.
 But wait, Grace had a most wonderful idea yesterday. She heard that some schools are offering advanced algebra courses over the summer. She talked to her counselor and has been put on the list to take the summer course if a spot becomes available. While it would probably be a great opportunity to get her math course out of the way it will also be four weeks of intense, four hours a day of math!
There goes my leisurely mornings of doing, well pretty much laundry and housework, grocery shopping, running errands. Hey, maybe a few more weeks of school wont be quite as bad as I thought.
Will see if she gets into the class and if she can manage to make it through a full year of algebra stuffed into four weeks.

INchie Monday?? umm Tuesday

I do believe I missed Monday's Inchie deadline. I had it made and photographed, time just got away from me. Must have been the royal wedding. I of course had my invitation and hopped on my private jet to get there just in time to perch my big ol' hat on my head and trot into the Abby. I'd have been home sooner but got side tracked dancing the Dougie w/ the queen herself. Anyone buying this?????
Anyway, this week's topic was "heart" there are some beautiful hearts on the Inchie Monday site. I on the other hand made mine for Grace. She's a bit dark and mysterious, so here it is. I have to say it looked better till I tried making the needle silver. Here ya go Grace!



I feel like all the other moms

So, Spring Break is over. Only 20 school days left  Yay!!!  Grace had an English project to work on over the break. it was a group project that involved making a little movie.  So yesterday her group got together and made their movie.
Weird for me because I'm usually the person that is writing, typing drawing etc. for her. We dropped her off at the girl's house and went to lunch a couple of blocks away. Grace's bestie, Kayla, went with her. Kayla knows how to suction her trach in case Grace needs it.
So, what's strange for me is normal for most moms and dads. I have no idea what the project involved or what the final outcome is. I asked a couple times and she told me that I could be like all the other parents and just not know what they did.  Feels a bit strange to be out of the loop. But I'm proud that she can manage w/out me.
P.S. unlike other moms I'll probably be in class when the movie is shown :)