sleep talking

michael talks in his sleep.

last night, while i was awake in severe pain, we hear...

"adslgkjnasgoihng. hey, what you doing? ....hey!"

wasn't me

i caught michael red handed unrolling a roll of toilet paper all over the front room. when i got after him, he responded..."wasn't me."

...............sigh.............

truancy

yesterday, i got an email from the kids' online teacher. elizabeth hasn't gotten her basics done in time to work on her other classes. history, science, and art. without a 6% completion rate for the month, she will considered truant.

this child, although homeschooling has helped immensely with the anxiety, she fights me on every thing. she doesn't want to do her quizzes and tests cause she can't find the answers. all of the answers can be found in her lessons, but because they aren't obvious and stand out, she doesn't think they are there. i've stopped her math, cause it only did 3 days for multiplication, and then moved on to equations. 3 days is not nearly long enough to

although today is saturday, we are doing school for her. i HAVE to get her caught up. if she won't do it here for me, i'll have to send her back to public school, medicated. cause she just can't handle it. i would rather avoid medication for her, as long as i can.

just when i thought things were going to start getting better, we catch the flu. and this is legitimately the flu. it tested positive for influenza.

it involves high fevers; 103-105, upset tummies, severe congestion, and gunky coughs.

even though christmas break is technically over, the little girls have been home all week. i don't want to pass this on to anyone else.

but it means that i'm going a little crazy.

teeth (for Christmas)

all shannon wanted for christmas was her 3 front teeth. instead, she lost another one....

she had been playing in taylor's room. she was on top of the banana chair, and taylor was under it. he bucked her off, and she hit her face on his bed. blood was everywhere. the next day, something else happened, and we had blood everywhere again. the following day, again. on the fourth day, the tooth came flying out, and we had blood everywhere.
i called the dentist cause we were concerned that part of the root was still there. as it was the holdiay, he wasn't in until today.

first thing this morning, i took shannon into the dentist. they took an xray of her teeth. there was no part of her tooth left in her gums. the other tooth that was bothering her, is not broken.

my kids are going to bankrupt the tooth fairy at this point.