Guess who’s back?

Wow, quite some time has elapsed since I last let my fingers do the talking here. I apologize. I have been a little uninspired, I guess. So many times I have sat here with wordpress opened, my fingers over the home row of my keyboard, and nothing came. It sucked. Fortunately some friends lit a small fire under my overly large booty and got me going again.

So, let’s see. What’s happened in the past month? Well, the girls have received their report cards. Dani actually brought her grades up from the last report card of last year. Of course, they are nowhere near what I would like them to be, but they have gone up, which tells me she is at least trying some this year. The new development with her that I am most proud of is that she is starting to get into a bible study group with a group of her peers at church. They meet at a Starbucks on Saturday nights and she really enjoys it. She went last weekend and will go again this weekend. I am hoping that she finds new friends there, and hopefully this goth period in her life will be phased out.

Desiree is doing extremely well in school. All of her grades were A’s or B’s except for her math which was a C. She struggles in math. Her teacher gushed over her. She said that Desiree is such a character, is always asking if there are things she can do to help in class and makes the class feel like a little family. I explained that is how both her 4th and 5th grade teachers ran their classrooms, so it was nice to see that Desiree is bringing it through to her new school. She never has attitude problems (at school), doesn’t talk out of turn, is respectful toward other kids and is just one of those good kids that teachers love to have. Oh! Desiree took a page out of my book and joined Drama. The meet every Wednesday after school and Desiree absolutely loves it. I never took her for a Drama type of girl. Dani or Alexis? Definitely. Desiree? Completely took my by surprise.

Alexis is also blowing her teacher away. She is at the top of her class and her teacher loves her. She said Alexis reminds her of her when she was young. She is an amazing reader and she just astonishes her teacher. The only place where she needs improvement is in writing. You know, sentence structures, remembering which punctuation goes where, stuff like that. She said Alexis is very quiet and a little sensitive. Sometimes Lexi will come in from recess and quietly cry at her desk over something that has happened on the playground. I know exactly what that is all about. It seems that there is a little girl named “A” who is Alexis’ best friend. They were doing just fine until another little girl named “E” entered the picture. As you all know three’s a crowd and their friendships are on again/off again. Every day Alexis would come home with a different story. One day A was her friend and the next day she wasn’t. Poor little Alexis is not able to handle friends who are like this. She is a very loyal type of person so the fact that one day A wants to be her friend and the next she wants to be only E’s friend really hurt Alexis. I told her teacher about this and she laughed and said there are 16 girls and 9 boys in her classroom. Everyday there is a huge dramatic blowout with the girls. Yikes!

All in all life is doing pretty good for me. I’m still working at the hospital, just got another raise (woo hoo!) and am adjusting to the night schedule just fine. Will got shifted to yet another position at work, but they gave him a raise again and he was able to quit his 2nd job. Thank the Lord! I now have my husband back. He works four days per week just as I do and we have two days off together. I’m loving it!