And, In Our Spare Time This Week.....The Science Project

Here you go....
She's so proud of the work I,I mean, she did. Actually, let me clarify- she absolutely did the experiment. I may have helped w/ the beautification, but what are we REALLY judging. The brains or the beauty? And for all you scrapbookers out there...I know, not *that* beautiful.

My Mom is Not Going to Be Able to Post Much This Week...

Because she needs to spend every waking moment entertaining me. You see, it's my spring break, and all of my lesser siblings are at school. So I get my mom all to myself- at my beck and call- every waking moment. And, just to make it extra special, I've been waking up early. So you'll have to excuse her lack of posting. It's for a good cause- ME.

Still here...I'm celebrating 1/4 of a spring break this week!

One of the four kids has spring break (the other three are off next week). It makes it difficult to actually DO anything :) So to celebrate Trey's first day of spring break, I let him stay in his PJs all day long. Yes, I was actually just lazy today, and as we weren't going anywhere (due to Delaney being home w/ a stomach bug), I just let him lounge around. Lucky boy!

Potentially moving forward with a Due Process hearing is an expensive proposition

It was a somewhat discouraging morning. We had the sit-down with the Education lawyer to discuss Trey's case, and where we go next. All in all, she felt that we have a very strong case. Great, right? But then she explained the 'normal' out of pocket expenses involved in going to court (although we were getting a discounted rate): $100,000 plus, potentially. Ouch. The discounted rate was discounted, but you can imagine still more than we were anticipating.

No wonder few people pursue due process hearings. And, now I understand why school districts are so quick to stick to their guns. Who can afford to take them to court? If we had that kind of money, we wouldn't be bothering to try to get the district to pay for Trey's schooling.

We can pursue mediation, with legal aide supplied by the district, but that seems to be a conflict of interest, doesn't it?

"You look like a duck", said Jake to the dental hygeniest....

to which she responded with, "I hope I'm a pretty duck!". "No- you're an UGLY duck....", said Jake. Fortunately the wonderful, totally un-ducky hygeniest had a great sense of humor and realized it was the laughing gas. Partly- the other part was just Jake being a stinker.

Do I blame him? He was getting a pulpectomy/root canal from a small HOLE in his tooth that our previous dentist failed to fix.

Happy St. Patricks Day.....

I now know what my favorite color is, and let me just *hint* to you that green is NOT it. Actually, I think I really like green, but only one of my four children own a green shirt. How does that happen? I'm the purchaser....there is blue in great abundance, w/ some red and orange thrown in for good measure.

It was difficult this morning to prepare the kids for St. Patty's Day when they do not own any green. Trey had to make do w/ an army green (really more brown) shirt of his brother's, and Jake will be settling on a navy blue sweater w/ a lone green stripe. He is taking in a huge sack of green grapes to share at their Green Buffet.

Delaney headed out the door in a neon yellow jacket (I think she's secretly hoping to get pinched), w/ one lone green sock hidden under her jeans/shoes.

Emily, however, headed out in style. A long sleeved dark green shirt, covered up with an oversized hoodie (bright lime green). She also has a bright green clip in her head. No pinches for her!

Hope you all had more luck than I did going green today!

My Sister Said I'm Getting Boring.....

So, here you go: a long overdue update.

We've been running around from muddy soccer field, to muddy soccer field- with an end of year basketball party, and a final indoor soccer game, thrown in for good measure. A couple of birthday parties, just to round it all out (but not Emily's....we're drawing her birthday out, just for fun), and you have a nice snapshot of our weekend.

We really *are* going to have a party for Emily- it just will probably not be until April. Or as my sister suggested, I could just have a dual party for Emily and Trey, in May- I'm sure she would LOVE a pirate party w/ a bunch of 4 year olds.

I'm on a mission to try out three new recipes a week, which while fun, is difficult. I have to pick things that my children will actually try, which is limiting. If anyone has a great recipe website suggestion, I'd love to hear about it. I'll share the ones I find as well.

More updates to come later (when Jake is not sitting here chatting AT me....he's a talker).