How am I doing with my tightrope walking?
Work has been busy; apparently for March I was at 111% of expected capacity. Go figure. I've also had a lot of new intakes lately, as well as a second opinions no one really saw fit to inform me about until after I did it. Which I find just rude, really. And there will be another second opinion next week, though this time I got a short summary about it. She told me at the end of her summary "I just don't know what to do!" in the case of someone who is maxed out on one mood stabilizer and didn't notice anything with a second one tacked onto that one. "Have you tried a different one?" I asked. And of course the answer was no, and she doesn't want to deal with that conversation. Asking for a curbside is one thing, she's done that before. But for me to basically make a decision for her because she can't deal with her own patient??
::throws up hands::
I did hear back about the whole Madison-to-school-thing. And thankfully there isn't any DW access at work anymore, or there would have been a ragey post as soon as I saw the e-mail back from the school psychologist. The lead teacher at the Y for Maddy's class feels she is ahead in academics, fine motor skills, gross motor skills and average in social skills. So her recommendation is to keep Maddy in the 4K and not let her go to Kindergarten. So without actually meeting Maddy, the school district gets to wash its hands of this. And the lead teacher has known for over a year that we wanted to do this. She never once said she thought Maddy couldn't hack it. So just like the school district kept their mouth shut about the 4k business, she didn't see fit to at least tell us ahead of time what she thought.
I was able to push aside the utter rage I felt to do what needed to be done at work (it's April, and I suspect I'm also going to be around max capacity the way things are going so far...) and Jason and I have to figure out what our options are. Finishing Diablo III didn't help as much as I hoped it would, as I still woke up this morning and was feeling particularly ragey. I actually walked on the treadmill for over an hour this morning and finished "Changeless," which I had started this week. (And on a complete side note, I'm already 3/4 of the way through "Blameless.") I love this series and it's such a quick read. Definitely helped the time pass on the treadmill and got my head out of that space.
Though when Tania came over to talk about how her adoption experience went, we also wound up discussing this whole school situation. Because that will change what we do next. We need to find out if Maddy can transition back to public school if we do a private kindergarten, or will we have to maintain private schooling. There's a Montessori pre-K/K nearby, and apparently a public Montessori school about 40 minutes away. So that might be an option. Then there's sucking it up and letting her go into 4k and just dealing with the fact that the school district is full of shortsighted twits. In that case we can supplement her education ourselves, as we're doing right now, and be stricter with policing her behavior so she doesn't turn into a bully because she's bored out of her mind. But if we do private school, there goes the money that would go into adoption fees. Jason apparently isn't as opposed to a third child, which is good to know, but we have to be realistic about what we can and can't afford. It's not cheap, no matter which route we choose.
So. Yeah. That's been the personal stuff I haven't been writing about. At least I can lay it all out calmly at this point. There were a lot more F bombs yesterday. ^^;
::throws up hands::
I did hear back about the whole Madison-to-school-thing. And thankfully there isn't any DW access at work anymore, or there would have been a ragey post as soon as I saw the e-mail back from the school psychologist. The lead teacher at the Y for Maddy's class feels she is ahead in academics, fine motor skills, gross motor skills and average in social skills. So her recommendation is to keep Maddy in the 4K and not let her go to Kindergarten. So without actually meeting Maddy, the school district gets to wash its hands of this. And the lead teacher has known for over a year that we wanted to do this. She never once said she thought Maddy couldn't hack it. So just like the school district kept their mouth shut about the 4k business, she didn't see fit to at least tell us ahead of time what she thought.
I was able to push aside the utter rage I felt to do what needed to be done at work (it's April, and I suspect I'm also going to be around max capacity the way things are going so far...) and Jason and I have to figure out what our options are. Finishing Diablo III didn't help as much as I hoped it would, as I still woke up this morning and was feeling particularly ragey. I actually walked on the treadmill for over an hour this morning and finished "Changeless," which I had started this week. (And on a complete side note, I'm already 3/4 of the way through "Blameless.") I love this series and it's such a quick read. Definitely helped the time pass on the treadmill and got my head out of that space.
Though when Tania came over to talk about how her adoption experience went, we also wound up discussing this whole school situation. Because that will change what we do next. We need to find out if Maddy can transition back to public school if we do a private kindergarten, or will we have to maintain private schooling. There's a Montessori pre-K/K nearby, and apparently a public Montessori school about 40 minutes away. So that might be an option. Then there's sucking it up and letting her go into 4k and just dealing with the fact that the school district is full of shortsighted twits. In that case we can supplement her education ourselves, as we're doing right now, and be stricter with policing her behavior so she doesn't turn into a bully because she's bored out of her mind. But if we do private school, there goes the money that would go into adoption fees. Jason apparently isn't as opposed to a third child, which is good to know, but we have to be realistic about what we can and can't afford. It's not cheap, no matter which route we choose.
So. Yeah. That's been the personal stuff I haven't been writing about. At least I can lay it all out calmly at this point. There were a lot more F bombs yesterday. ^^;