Well I have made the decision to pull Abby out of the public school and homeschool her myself. At least until I can find a more suitable place for her. I was hesitant about her being thrust into full days so soon and her being unable to handle the situation and after 2 weeks she was still not eating in the mornings, couldn't even get her to drink milk - then she would not eat at lunch (except maybe a little bit of fruit). So almost 16 hours without eating hardly anything and she was always starving and not so happy when she would get off the bus :( I knew my girl was not handling it and even though the school didn't like it very much I had to to what I thought was best for her. So for now I am going to do online courses with ABCMouse.com and look into some private schools. I was told she was in a classroom with K-1 grade and even though it was the resource room it was a pretty big class. She was used to being in a class where there was 1 teacher to every 2 kids, so she had A LOT of one on one exposure. She was not getting that this year. Then there were some things she was saying - and none of this occurred before school started - she would point her finger and say "bad bad bad boy". I knew this wasn't something she had heard at home. And it upset me that these were all disabled students - why were they saying things like that to them? And was Abby being spoken to like that? I mean come on, they are children first off and they are special needs children on top of that. I don't know where or who it came from, but I don't want that for her. No one is going to make my child feel like she is less than wonderful!!!
And so we go onto the next phase :) I have a new job as well - as the Assistant Director of Public Relations for the Williams Syndrome Family of Hope!!! I am super-thrilled about it, and it means that I get to be involved in helping all these wonderful WS individuals and their families that I have come to see as part of my own family! This foundation is so close to my heart and I am so proud to be just a tiny part of it :D So go check out our website and the Hope Store where you can get lots of goodies with our logo - we will soon be adding more stuff like coffee mugs, golf towels, hoodies and ball caps!
http://wsfamilyofhope.org/
And also, Abby and I are going to be moving - yes again LOL! I got an offer that I just can't really refuse and it will be a lot less money per month going towards rent which will help us tremendously :) And my dad owns the property - it is where my Grandma and Grandpa lived - we will have a front and back porch outside, a garage, lots of room outside to run, and it's right next door to my brother and sister in law :) And I will get to see my dad more often as well! So I think it's going to be a great thing - so within the next month or so we will probably be moving yet again. At least this time we don't have as much stuff LOL. And a lot of it is still boxed up :D
