Finally back at work

The cold thing was a killer! It wiped me out last week finally. And to top everything else off, the kids had a Pro-D Day on Friday. What I would have given for a whole day to sleep. Sleep. Sleep.

But, apparently that was not to happen. So now it's coming up to November which is crazy time for Adoption Awareness month, and at least I got over my cold before all the events start happening. One year I was sick for almost the whole month of November and lost my voice so I could barely speak at any events. I sounded sicker than I felt, but it certainly wasn't fun.

Oh,and did I mention I missed out on two of my kids' parent teacher interviews due to either their illnesses or mine? So today I had the "make-up" parent teacher interview for my son Xavier. Gee, I couldn't possibly guess what the teacher was going to say. What a surprise - Xavier has trouble settling down to work and he's easily distracted. Oh yes, and he has "struggled in meeting some deadlines". Ha! That's the understatement of the year. That would require him to actually remember to bring his planner and work home each day.

His teacher had him do a self-evaluation on things such as how he would rate himself on "listening skills", "asking for help if needed" "using planner consistently", etc. Him and his teacher were fairly close on their ratings, but what distracted me was that for each little ticky box, Xavier had coloured either red with an "M" or green with an "L" and I couldn't figure out what that was for. It had nothing to do with the chart and his teacher didn't know either. Then I finally clued it. The red M was for "Mario" and the green L was for "Luigi" from Nintendo Super Smash Bros. game. That would also account for the little green man with an "L" on his hat in the middle of Xavier's Halloween poster. Sigh. Boys are so different.

Next week I have Leosha's IEP and Camisha's parent teacher interview.

See now this is why I can't work full time. Who would hire me? Between sick days, IEP meetings, various specialist appointments for each child, getting my snow tires put on (Ok that's not really a regular thing but it does require coordination with the whole schedule), and driving to and from after school activities, I wouldn't be able to hold down a regular job. Well I guess I would if I had no other choice, and I am very fortunate that my job is so flexible.

And speaking of jobs, I should go and get my kids off to bed. They are currently taking turns coming into my office as I write this, telling me how bored they are, how someone got a longer turn on the computer than everyone else, why someone is allowed to have a yogurt when snack time is over, and whining that Xavier through a spider at her and Xavier says it wasn't a real spider it was an ant that was really from his Indiana Jones Lego set and it was all her fault anyways, and he only kicked her because she was going to kick him. It goes on and on and on.