Posted by: goodmum | October 20, 2009

She Lives and He’s Ok.

Well, kinda. Sorta.

Dooooods and doooooodettes, I’ve missed you. Not enough to, well, you know, like, pay attention to any of you or anything, but enough to wish that I had something new and exciting to say.

Which I don’t.

At all.

Really.

Well, except for the fact that Little Man is doing mostly well at school except, except, for not eating, like, anything, and for erasing his written work over and over and over again (totally NOT prepared for that one, by the fecking way – thankyouverylittle) and he’s an absolute ((bi)-polar) bear when I pick him up at 3:30 on M,W and F’s.

Fun fecking wow, chicks and chicklets.

Oh, and I have been coughing up brain matter for going on a month now and the only response I get from the doc is an ever-so-mind-numbing – settling “It’s a virus. Get lots of rest and take cough syrup.”

Really? Really? Why didn’t I think of that. Oh, right. I did. Feckers. Just give me the gee dee antibiotics and wash your bloody hands of me for feck’s sake. Zeus.

Sidebar anyone? Taking a dose and a half of Nyquil after consuming copious amounts of red wine will knock one out sufficiently to secure almost an entire night’s sleep. Or so I’ve heard.

Little Man is ok. He’s ok. He’s going to be just fine. He’s good. He’s ok. I’m not. He’s ok. (Picture Kia rocking back and forth slowly, eyes almost closed, legs crossed Koom-bye-fecking-yah style while she repeats this mantra.) (Laugh.)

I’m loving the fact that LM’s teacher is so openly communicative with me. LOVING. IT.  As I said, he’s apparently used up the entire class’ supply of rubber erasers for the whole school year (that bill shall be lovely, no doubt – I kid) already and it’s only the middle of October. I find this fact somewhat amusing because why the FECK can’t he be that way about his room?! Whatev’s, it means he’s spending way longer than he needs to on his worksheets and the teach wants to know what to do about it.

Cue Dr.Psych.

Incoming!

See? I told you she’s wonderful. Dr.Psych, that is. She is. Wonderful.

She is also coming to visit Little Man at school on Friday of this week to observe and hopefully offer some suggestions to help him get through his days with less perfectionism and more lunch. We shall see. I’m actually doing surprisingly well with NOT stressing to the max about Little Man’s school happenings. (Pssst! Lean in close. Closer. Ok. Shhhhh….The reason I’m not stressing to the max about his school day? It’s because I’m enjoying the HELL out of my time to myself. Ahem. Or something like that.)

So there we be. We’re ok. He’s ok. We’re going to be fine.

Doooood lost another tooth on the weekend. Wah. My baby doth grow up too much. Oh, he protests quite a bit too (much).

I’ve missed you, my loverlings. Truly. I’ll try to drop by and visit this week. Pinky swear (with my toes crossed behind my back). (Quite the visual, non?)

Out!

Kia


Responses

  1. oooh I’m first to post. I’m all excited! I’ve missed you too. Seriously I did! Even if you didn’t get an email or a wtf’s up kinda comment on an old post, deep down I was wondering how you were all fairing. And now I know! Hooray! Glad things are going as well as they can.
    You know what? You must share my excitement too: We’re getting a psychologist for my own little man and his weird behaviours! Break out the champagne and nyquil, I need a full nights rest.

  2. I’m so glad you are still alive. I have so missed your biting wit and sarcasm! I wish I were half as funny!

    That Dr. Psych sounds great! That is really cool that she will be visiting his school. It sounds like you hit the jack pot with her–it’s about time, huh?

    Hope you feel better.

    Oh, and btw, I am already planning my free time for next school year when Charlotte will be in part time preschool. Only 10 months to go…..

  3. Yay! I missed you! Welcome back to BlogLand. You sound great. It’s amazing what 6 blissful hours of kidlessness can do for a person, huh? When people tell me they’re home schooling their kids, I’m like, “Huh? Does not compute. Does not compute. System is overloading. Screech!”

  4. Been wondering about you lately! Glad all is relatively well. Yay for Dr. Psych – we need to clone her. And keep enjoying your time to yourself – you deserve it!

  5. Glad LM is doing well(ish) and that you’re enjoying your time LM-less.

  6. I was so glad to read your newest post. Hannah has that same problem with perfectionism with regards to her written work (and astonishingly not her room just like Little Man!). Usually she’s using a crayon or colored pencil though so she can’t erase. So, instead of constant erasing I get head banging and screaming. So, see, it could be worse. Count yourself lucky that he’s only erasing stuff. All kidding aside, I’ve had students that were the same way. The only way I managed to get them to move on was to give them a free pass on errors, make a big deal about how everyone makes mistakes and that is ok, and take away all of their erasers (to the point that we had to give them eraserless pencils or cut the erasers off of them). Not sure if this will help little man or not or if it would make it worse, but that’s my two cents worth anyway.
    Natalie

  7. Missed you so! Was in major “feck” withdrawal, and now you’re back! You’re back!

    You’re not going away again, are you? I know you think you have to have something new and exciting to report, but frankly I don’t care if you spend your next post describing your belly button lint ad nauseum. Just keep writing.

  8. Why is a kid his age doing worksheets? They are utterly banned at my school. Let him write on a white board – then he can wipe it whenever it goes wrong. He’s obviously a perfectionist and doesn’t want ther to be a mistake. Another option is to give him 2 worksheets, the first is a rough copy and when it is completeld he can make a fair copy onto the second sheet. Then he shreds the rough copy and only hands in the fair copy.

    Hoch -spit! Worksheets are the work of the devil and all his spawn designed only to stifle creativity and original thought and suppress the happiness of children. That’s what makes me a great teacher – NO WORKSHEETS = happiness!

  9. So glad you posted! I’ve been thinking about you.

    I’m loving Dr. Psych too! That’s great that she’s going to go into the class. How can you help him if she doesn’t really see what’s going on? Yay for great docs!

    But your doc, on the other had is an asshat. Have doctors not figured out that our instincts as Mom’s is usually right? Ugh. What about a second opinion from another doc? One more willing do dole out the drugs.

    No advice on the worksheet thing tho… the other wonderful peeps who posted before me have some great ideas tho. Yay peeps!

  10. Missed you too, babe.

    Sorry about the hacking, though! And the erasing.

    You know, one of my colleagues has a HUGE pink eraser/paperweight on her desk! If it didn’t have the words “Big Mistake” stamped on it, I’d get one and send it for your guy… oh well.

  11. I missed ya ya fecker! I was getting ready to stake out the Swiss Chalets!!!!

    xoxoxoxoxox

  12. Yay, you’re back. I’ve missed your tongue-in-cheek humour! Sorry you’re sick, maybe you have the 100 day cough, or you need to tell DH that the Dr. said you will die if you don’t immediately take an extended vacation in (input someplace hot of your choice here) ALL BY YOURSELF! Think that would work? Nah, probably not.

  13. Dr Psych does sound wonderful! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that she has some brillant insight that makes Little Man’s school day easier for him.

  14. tylenol PM and vodka work for me…

  15. Thought I’d stop and say hi since I was here.

    Looks like we have a similar life with the little boys and all.

    School keeps all of us from being better than “OK” doesn’t it? LOL

    Hope the wine is helping the cough. It did wonders for mine last week.

    Be back soon,
    Hartley
    hartleysboys.blogspot.com

  16. beer nd painkillers work a treat…so I’ve heard. I have missed you xx Though you have not missed much at mine (I am going to London with a stranger to see *someone* three times and my pic is on the blog..hugging *someone*).

    Oh and does the teacher know that if he used a freakin pen he couldn’t rub it out, just sayin is all.


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