A Little Less Stressed Out...
Well, Kimmy has agreed to let me wear a different dress in her wedding,
so long as its the same color as everyone else. She and I have agreed
on one so hopefully it'll all work out for the best. I hated to be such
a pain, but there was no way in hell I would feel comfortable or even
remotely attractive in the dress she picked. Not that her wedding day
is about me, but I really don't want them looking back on their wedding
pictures and curling their noses up at how awful I looked on their big
day. That and I really just would not feel comfortable in that dress.
The Front...
The Back...
I like this one. I think it'll be more flattering for my body type. Its cheaper than the one Kimmy picked out but by the time I pay for shipping and alterations it'll probably run about the same.
The other good news is that my one boy who has given me trouble since the moment he walked into my classroom was disenrolled today by his parents. Unfortunately it wasn't under the best circumstances. Matthew isn't a bad child, but he's got issues and needs a lot more help than my co-teacher and I can provide for him. He needs to work with occupational therapists and be in a facility where he can climb and litterally bounce off the walls. He's been through so much, but regardless of what his past and the things he's going through it really was unfair to him to be in my room. He would not have succeeded, not the way the rest of my class would have. The main reason his mom pulled him out was because she felt my co-teacher and I were singling him out and taking away priveldges because he was different. When in fact we bent over backwards and did everything we possibly could to help him just function in our classroom. I really feels like she believes us to be incompetent teachers. She also told my director, that she didn't feel like she could approach us when she picked him up because everything we had to say was negative. Which, I'm sorry, is not the case. Whenever I talked with her I always did a positivity sandwich (something I learned from Three Springs) and tried to let her know where we were having concerns and how we were addressing his issues. I think the main thing is that she didn't want to hear that her son's problems were a lot more serious than she believed them to be. Bottom line is -- he would not have been successful in our class and it would have greatly impacted his ability to function in the long run. She was setting him up for failure in our room. I really do hope he gets the help he needs. Honestly, he isn't a bad or malicious child, he just cannot control his body and doesn't have the ability to process cause and effect.
So that's my day...in a nutshell...
The Front...
The Back...
I like this one. I think it'll be more flattering for my body type. Its cheaper than the one Kimmy picked out but by the time I pay for shipping and alterations it'll probably run about the same.
The other good news is that my one boy who has given me trouble since the moment he walked into my classroom was disenrolled today by his parents. Unfortunately it wasn't under the best circumstances. Matthew isn't a bad child, but he's got issues and needs a lot more help than my co-teacher and I can provide for him. He needs to work with occupational therapists and be in a facility where he can climb and litterally bounce off the walls. He's been through so much, but regardless of what his past and the things he's going through it really was unfair to him to be in my room. He would not have succeeded, not the way the rest of my class would have. The main reason his mom pulled him out was because she felt my co-teacher and I were singling him out and taking away priveldges because he was different. When in fact we bent over backwards and did everything we possibly could to help him just function in our classroom. I really feels like she believes us to be incompetent teachers. She also told my director, that she didn't feel like she could approach us when she picked him up because everything we had to say was negative. Which, I'm sorry, is not the case. Whenever I talked with her I always did a positivity sandwich (something I learned from Three Springs) and tried to let her know where we were having concerns and how we were addressing his issues. I think the main thing is that she didn't want to hear that her son's problems were a lot more serious than she believed them to be. Bottom line is -- he would not have been successful in our class and it would have greatly impacted his ability to function in the long run. She was setting him up for failure in our room. I really do hope he gets the help he needs. Honestly, he isn't a bad or malicious child, he just cannot control his body and doesn't have the ability to process cause and effect.
So that's my day...in a nutshell...