Affirmation of the Week

"Where I am right now is perfect".

Common - Finding Forever

Why are you so petrified of silence? Here, can you handle this...

• I feel (somewhat) bad complaining again, but...
• Isaac's dad needs to hurry up and get back in the country and let me get out of this freakin house on a Friday night.
• Cause this he-takes-Isaac-for-literally-one-hour-in-June thing isn't working for me.
• I guess I shouldn't really complain. I have had several of my friends and (of course) my mom offer to take Isaac for me. But it's not about that.
• I don't want him with a sitter.
• I want him with his other parent.
• Anyways, I could go off on that tangent forever.
• In case I haven't told you, Isaac's dad is in South Africa for the World Cup. My coworker pointed out that I bring up the fact that he is there all the time. But seriously I have serious envy. (Did my using the "serious" twice in one sentence drive home the seriousness of the situation? Because it is serious. Seriously.)
• Anyways, he is off shirking parental responsibilities and galavanting around South Africa on his uncle's dime and I am stuck here on a Friday night scrubbing orange juice stains out of the hallway carpet.
• Wow... welcome to my life. Good thing I keep a blog to make myself feel fascinating.
• So I got a summer report for a new kindergartener in the fall.
• (I am writing IEPs for extra cash this summer. And because I can rock an IEP if I do say so myself and would rather have them show up written correctly in the first place than show up on my desk with a big post-it on it in the fall that says "Lisa, this needs to be done ASAP"... but anyways...)
• The report always lists a students strengths and weaknesses.
• This report lists (among other things) being strong willed as a weakness.
• Now, I have worked with PLENTY of strong willed kids with autism over the past seven years and I totally get how that can lead to behavior problems or otherwise thwart a teacher's best teaching efforts.
• But, as someone who is terrifically stubborn myself, I like to think that strong will could also be a strength.
• Anyways, now I'm just babbling.
• I woke up this morning around seven to Isaac crawling in bed next to me.
• We both woke up again around nine which was HEAVENLY.
• Since yesterday I was wide eyed and bushy tailed at seven am.
• I don't care what some people say about co-sleeping.
• I love (occasionally) waking up to a little sleeping face snuggling up to me.
• So school is out for summer. I'm working 8 hours a week of summer school and writing the occasional IEP so I am keeping somewhat busy.
• I need to keep my days structured and busy or I start to lose my mind.
• As much as I get stressed out by being spread too thin during the school year I go too insane when there is no school work and it's just me sitting inside these four walls all day.
• I've said it before and I will say it again, I could never be a stay at home housewife.
• Not that I would want to work 40 (plus) hours a week if I didn't have to.
• But nothing but children's TV and laundry and dishes makes my brain feel as though it is turning into mush.
• I think I would go into a serious depression.
• Anyways, to celebrate summer Isaac and I trekked out to Ocean City yesterday and had a great time.
• More than once he said "This was such a great day mom!".
• And it really was.
• It's fun now that he is old enough to travel longer distances without a lot of drama. I'm trying to think of some other day trips for us to hit this summer.
• My bridesmaid dress is officially in. I need to go pick up my frothy canary number and probably have it altered.

That's all I got for now... good night!

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