Back to school

Josh went back to school today. All was fine this morning until we got to the school and were walking to the classroom. He burst into tears and told me he didn't want to go.
I think it was because he is in a new classroom with a new teacher and its a 3 grade composite class. He is in grade 4 and there are also 5's and 6's in with him as well. Some of the kids in his class I have never laid eyes on before in all the time we have been there even tho we have a small school.
His teacher is lovely. Mr McLeod. I think Josh will really benefit from having some older and other much older kids around him. Plus having a male teacher is good for him as well.
Last year he had a female teacher and while she was lovely Josh needs someone who won't take any of his silly behaviour in the class room. He needs that authority figure and I know his teacher this year will give him what he needs.
I am looking forward to seeing Josh improve this year and start settling down a bit.

Ella goes back tomorrow but I went and met her teacher this morning and told her not to expect Ella til tomorrow. She seems really lovely as well and I really think that Ella will enjoy being in her class.

My back to school plans have been put on hold once again. I was disappointed at first but there is always next year. I might do a TAFE course tho, just to keep me from getting too bored.

Well I will leave it there as I can hear Patty.

Tellytubbies

Of all things Patty can watch he has decided that he will sit there glued to the screen and watch the whole show.

He has not moved an inch from where he is sitting.

Tellytubbies.......why why why?????

Patty

We had our appointment today at the Royal. Turns out his glasses aren't doing their job properly so we have to start patching his eye.

Basically we have to patch his good eye so that his bad eye has to do all the work. I got told today that a big part of the reason he has his glasses is so that his bad eye doesnt have to concentrate on focusing. Thats what his glasses are for. Its just the nerves that connect from his eye to his brain arent working properly this in turn making him have a lazy eye that doesnt want to turn. Not because there is anything wrong with the eye, its the nerves.

So when we patch his good eye it will make his bad eye work harder and hopefully will fix the nerves. The doc said that we are lucky that we have caught it now as once you hit 7 or 8 whatever your eyesight is then is as good as it will get so he said we have time on our hands at least to get his eye back to normal. If things don't improve, there was mention of surgery to repair the damaged nerves but hopefully he won't have to have that. If he does it wont be til he is over 8 to give us as much time as possible to fix it.

Bit of an update

There is only 13 more sleeps til school goes back and I can't wait. I think we are all getting on each others nerves now so the break will be welcoming.

Ella is off to Adelaide in 10 sleeps. I hope she goes ok over there on her own. I know Mum's family are looking forward to her getting there and she will be the centre of everyones attention which she will love. Maybe the break away from us is what she needs as the little girl (even tho she is only 8 now) I used to have is slowly getting further and further away and I am scared of what might happen. I'm going to do everything in my power to stop this from happening as I don't want this to continue.

I have heard that 8 in girls is a difficult age so heres hoping that it's just a stage she is going through. We are so much like each other it's scarey and we butt heads constantly so I need to learn how to control my temper with her as the more I yell at her the more she yells back at me.

We had a long talk about her behaviour and she seemed to understand that what she was doing is wrong so hopefully it was a wake up call for her.

The Silence Is Deafening

Ella isn't here today. She is out with Mick, Jeri and Hannah.

Patty is in bed having a sleep which I am sure will be for another hour at least because he didn't have one this morning.

Josh is just fiddling around, about to put on a dvd.

Brett is at work.

So yeah it's pretty damn quiet here.

I gave the college a call today about my enrolment and I can't do anything until the 3rd Feb when the teaching staff arrive. At the moment only the office staff are there. Which sucks as I was really hoping that I could do something today. Nevermind, only a couple of weeks til then so I don't have too long to wait.

We are going to switch Patty over to his big bed soon. I put his bed rail, doona and pillows on layby today so when I get them off into the bed he will go. I hope the transition will be an easy one.
I don't think I have to worry about Josh and Patty chatting away til all hours as Patty will be in bed before Josh everynight and in the mornings we all get up at the same time so we won't have to worry about Patty getting into something that he shouldn't.
Patty has been sleeping through now for almost 12mths so that isn't going to be a problem either and Josh is a real good sleeper too. So by going by all that it should be easy.

The only thing I will have to get used to is putting Patty into bed about 50 times a night til he gets used to it..haha!!

Back to School

Not just Josh and Ella but for me too.

I have decided to go back and do Year 11 and 12. Not just for my own personal gain but because of the kids as well. They are getting older and starting to ask more and more questions that I can't answer for them because I simply do not know the answer.

I'm not going back into the classroom as I really do not want to sit there with a bunch of hormone crazed teenagers. So I will do what I can via distant ed and go to the class room if needed (hopefully not)

Then once I have finished at college my aim is to move onto Uni and get my teaching degree. I have always wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember so achieving this will tick one thing off my wish list.

I am extremely nervous but very very excited about whats happening this year. It has been quite a few years since I have been at school. 10 years actually so I will be interested to see what I have remembered and what I have forgtotten. Brett is supporting me 110% so I am sure I will be ok. Just shitting myself in the meantime.

New Blog

I have decided to start a new blog. I wasn't overly impressed with my other one so here I go again. Can't promise it will, actually I know it won't be cleverly (is that even a word) written or even make sense to some but it's about me, my life and the goings on in it.

Not real good with keeping up to date either. I start with the best of intentions but then fail miserably. So just warning you now if you expect to see me updating every day then you will be thoroughly disappointed.

I have never been much of a diary/journal keeper. I had the odd one when I was little but I haven't kept them to look back on. I guess my aim is to have something my friends and family can come and read to see what we are up to and to catch a glimpse of the weird and wonderful world that is us.

I hope you enjoy. If not then just piss off...ha!!