Well, we decided that with all the issues with many things in our home, it would be best to send Melissa to the local public school. Now, I have issues with this anyway, but I went ahead and enrolled her. She's been in school for 3 weeks now, and its just a struggle every day she has school. This morning was especially hard, she had 5 days off because of bad weather then a 4 day weekend for inservice and a holiday, and it just collapsed under me. I had to carry her into the school while I was in my 3" heels and she was kicking my knees repeatedly and screaming in an attempt to get me to put her down. Then when I got her to where she needed to be, she chased after me thinking that if she followed maybe I'd bring her home. I take her back only to have her do it again, then when I took her back again her teacher was in the hall and saw the struggles so she jumped in and pulled her over and helped me get her in the school and stay there. This is a pretty typical day, she waits by dropoff most mornings to give me a hand with getting Melissa into school and staying put while I leave. Rips my heart out, but I'm still doing it for now.
But she won't be staying past this school year. In the fall she'll be coming back home again, no matter how difficult it is. Its just too much for me and her to go through these struggles every day just to get her to school. I can't wait until the end of this school year, and neither can she (yes we already talked about it, I needed to make sure she knows that its just temporary and was hoping that it will help with her getting off to school, I'll find out tomorrow if it did help any with that)
And totally off the topic of our educational adventures, but it will have an impact here in the future. My sweet Kimmy was at the doctor this morning, and the doctor was checking out her dry skin and doing a typical sick kid appointment (barking cough and major runny nose) Well, poor sweet Kimmy has asthma, multiple environmental allergies, and excema. The inhaler that the doctor prescribed for her is the same brand and dosage as the one I use that was prescribed to me by *my* doctor (for the record, I'm 27 and have had an asthma diagnosis for 15 years) We also have prescription allergy medication and a prescription cream that I need to dole out daily for Kimmy. But she is loving her new inhaler, when I asked her if she liked it she grinned and said "I love my new medicine, it makes me not hurt here any more (rubbing chest with both hands)" Ahhhhhhhh the simplicity of a 3 year old. She does think her allergy syrup is yucky though, and said she doesn't want to take it any more. LOL Sweet little thing.
Now why did I say that will impact us in the future? Doctor appointments, tests, and potential hospital visits come to mind right offhand. I can just see it throwing a big kink into our homeschooling starting in the fall, but I'm ok with that. That's the best part of homeschool, we can grab workbooks and take it with us no matter what we're doing. We don't need the dining room table to do our schoolwork, just a flat surface, workbooks, and pencils/crayons.
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