I.............

I have a vision, a dream for what i want to do with  my life and i don't know where to start......
I can google my idea and find similar places, examples of what i want to do....so close to perfect.
Do i share this with anyone?  my husband knows.....and one other person that only my husband
knows too.....

I tried a little jump start idea, tried getting a few friends interested, meet up and discuss......
no one showed up.  I felt like i did as a kid when i was the last one picked for kickball.....


I'm doing 'Soul Restoration"  through The Brave Girls Club.....maybe this will help me get this
out of my head and into the universe where it will actually come true.....I need some serious
change in my life....

How can i teach my kids to chase there dreams when my own 'childhood' fears hold me back
from living my life?

The beautiful collage I received from my exchange partner :)

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My gift for the Home made Gift. exchange sponsered by Home maker in heels

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I seem to be experiencing brain drain today.....need to do stuff but can't cuz Pickle spent the night.
He's supposed to clean out my van he used to move stuff out with that is still full of his stuff, the basement, garage and storage too.  What did he move to his place anyway??

The weather is great out so I should go outside and see if my perennials are trying to come up early...we haven't had a real winter this year.  Maybe take a walk, go take a peek at Kaliko playing at her friend's house.
I ordered she and I some Vibram 5 fingers....hopefully will help with my knee pain and maybe with her ankle and pronating.  She needs to learn to run better, I can't do much but I can do a lil running.

I found out, whilst researching dyslexia, that fine and  gross motor skills are effected too.  Explains her hand writing and her clumsiness.  It's also been discovered that dyslexics have poor/low muscle tone in the upper body.  I'm not too worried about that at this stage of the game, she's a little young and so skinny right now! 

I will admit on here (cuz only my BFF knows) that I'm worried about my hubs.  For the 3rd time in a row, he's been denied for giving blood.  His hemo is too high.  According to the nurses there it could mean a heart condition....He's trying to improve his health, quit smoking last year, cutting back on the pop, eating a bit better.  We may have to lay off the red meat.  I'm making him an appt at the Dr. next week, we'll see what happens.  Get some answers from traditional medicine and then see what we can do the alternative route.  We just won't tell the MD about that part, yet.

Another admission today-I spend entirely tooooooo much time on Pintrest-lol!!  But I"m learning from some of what I see. I follow the link to the tutorial.....I've figured out what I'm making for the newest craft exchange I signed up for.  My partner sounds like a fun, colourful person-this will be easy!

Ok, must end this and do something productive with my time.....housework?  blah!  Maybe finish my knitting?  eh?  .........Idk.  Bother.......................

Frustration and Confusion

So, here I am again....frustrated after talking to the second in command (as she called herself) for our school district.....I was interested in finding out if we could use assistive technology for K at school, even tho it's not covered by her existing IEP.  #1 point she wanted to make clear is that we don't use label to define our students.  Even tho her own child is dyslexic, they don't describe his LD using a label.  Really???  

There is no cure for this!  It is something that has  to be lived with and dealt with daily for the rest of their lives.  Use the word, teach them how to adapt to a system that that thinks all students should fit into a box!  According to her all LDs are specific so how can we teach all students if they have to learn differently?  She only contradicted herself a few times.....

So, what it boils down to is that our district doesn't recognize dyslexia as a 'specific learning disability'. My opinion is that by not having to label specific disabilities, they don't have to train anyone to actually teach them in a real way that benefits the student......No. I'm not happy. I mentioned that TX has specifically trained teachers for dyslexia on every campus.  She said that violates fedeal law and someday it will come back on them.  How is helping LD students have the same educational advantages as non-LD students breaking the law??  To me that's what IDEA is supposed to be about!  No, i'm not a student of the law and legalese is a foreign language to me, but come on!!!

I like the definition of dyslexia that says it's not a learning disability, it's a teaching liability.  It is more fitting of what our education system is about.  They will label 'gifted' students and have specific programs for them. Why not have them for those others who are outside of that box and are struggling with the way our teachers are taught to teach?  The system is broken and I truely believe that someday we will be pulling Kaliko out of, what is turning out to be, an almost a toxic enviroment.  

Our district is in the middle of, at least, one federal lawsuit for violating the IDEA law.  Will it take more for them to realize that they are not meeting the needs of every student as they claim in their mission statement?  How long are we willing to put K thru it?

New project for Valentine's_Day

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Finally-lol!

so i posted a few months ago about wanting to re-arrange the living room, yeah, it's finally happening-lol!! so far, we're on day 3 of this lil adventure.  the 1st day was box up ALL the pix and nick-nacky things and clean.  yesterday we moved the very large furniture, had to have pickle come help with that.  now to decide on the final layout then decide what stuff to bring back into the space......

so the reason this is happening, you ask?  i received a text last week from my soldier boy.  "will you be ready for us to move in there in about 6 mos?"  YES!!!  my baby boy, his wife and daughters here!!  yes, we'll be crowded! yes, we have tons to do to make room for them! yes, we want them close to us!! the living room is just the beginning of getting prepared for their arrival.  the basement, where they will live, has to be emptied and re-arranged. then the garage has to be done too.  the garage, because some of my art supplies and tools will head that direction. all of my art supplies are in the basement.  all of it has to be condensed and organized.

will i ever get to paint or create something again?  YES!!!  i will make it happen.  i just entered another handmade gift exchange.  perhaps this time, i'll actually get pix posted.  i suck at this stuff.  course, if i didn't fight with the computer so much, i'd get pix of all i do posted more often ;)

Toodles!!