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TWO DAYS LEFT UNTIL RELAY! AHHHHH! ( link to my page, if you'd like to throw a few dollars my way...)
I am really trying to get back into the habit of reading my flist, commenting, and keeping my LJ updated. It's one of those things where the longer I don't do it, the more anxiety I feel over jumping back into it. My brain, it works in funny ways.
Today was the boys' first full day of summer. Davey has a broken wrist, and because of where it's broken he's still in a full arm cast for a couple weeks. We've already had to go get a new cast put on because he "fell" in the pool. It's going to be a long summer. We're still waiting on report cards, but we did get SOL scores. I think SOLs are possibly the worst thing to ever happen to education. I could rant about it for hours, but what it comes down to is that because of SOLs, we're teaching kids to memorize and recite facts for a test instead of teaching them HOW to learn and working with practical application of that knowledge. This year, we got a letter a while back that the state was changing the math SOL and that it was expected that all the kids' scores would drop 20 to 30 points on the math section. SOLs are scored out of 600, over 500 is pass advanced and over 400 is pass proficient. Ronnie got a 398 in social studies (which was names and dates from the American Revolution through the Civil War and was a LOT of information) and a 380 in math. Because math and English are some kind of special SOL, Ronnie has to do "summer remediation" in order to be promoted to sixth grade, only instead of summer school, they want him to study on the IXL Math website and do activities on an as-yet-unavailable website. The whole thing is stressing me out.
Larkin still hasn't made an appearance, thankfully. Kristina is supposed to be on bedrest, but she doesn't do too well at it. After tomorrow, she's off official bedrest and no longer has to take medication (they gave her procardia to help put off preterm labor) so the baby can come anytime she wants. She might be stubborn and wait until her actual due date (July 13) since the doctors stopped Kristina's labor the first time, but I'm hoping she'll at least hold off until Sunday. And Sunday is Fathers' Day, so it'd be kinda cool if she came then. But Friday is Relay for Life and Saturday we have a suite reserved at the Red Sox game to celebrate my brother's 30th birthday, so I'd like for Kris to be able to be there for those things.
My brother got me a ticketmaster gift card for my birthday (he says he knows I need a concert in my life, lol) but there's not really anything coming up that I need to be at so I don't know what I'm gonna use it on. I do have plans to take Bella to Warped Tour next month. Also, my mom won concert tickets to a summer concert series at Virginia Beach, so she split the tickets between us kids, so I have 2 tickets to see Rascal Flatts on June 24 and no one to go with me.
M figured out I'm a bitch? Idk, it's not like I ever tried to hide it, and my fascination with that whole situation is beyond over. Yall know how I am, I get all excited and into something for a minute, then am ready to move on. So that's over. Lol.
Um... I think that may be it? Oh! I've been able to do things like READ and WRITE lately, so that's awesome! I'm thinking about trying my hand at drabbles or something, but I'm kinda limited in what I feel like I'd be able to write. I think I might revert back to HP fandom. There's a few other fandoms that I might be comfortable in - smaller ones like Haven or Shelter or possibly GK, maybe, or something kinda my own like the werewolf!Empires 'verse. We shall see.
Love yall!
I am really trying to get back into the habit of reading my flist, commenting, and keeping my LJ updated. It's one of those things where the longer I don't do it, the more anxiety I feel over jumping back into it. My brain, it works in funny ways.
Today was the boys' first full day of summer. Davey has a broken wrist, and because of where it's broken he's still in a full arm cast for a couple weeks. We've already had to go get a new cast put on because he "fell" in the pool. It's going to be a long summer. We're still waiting on report cards, but we did get SOL scores. I think SOLs are possibly the worst thing to ever happen to education. I could rant about it for hours, but what it comes down to is that because of SOLs, we're teaching kids to memorize and recite facts for a test instead of teaching them HOW to learn and working with practical application of that knowledge. This year, we got a letter a while back that the state was changing the math SOL and that it was expected that all the kids' scores would drop 20 to 30 points on the math section. SOLs are scored out of 600, over 500 is pass advanced and over 400 is pass proficient. Ronnie got a 398 in social studies (which was names and dates from the American Revolution through the Civil War and was a LOT of information) and a 380 in math. Because math and English are some kind of special SOL, Ronnie has to do "summer remediation" in order to be promoted to sixth grade, only instead of summer school, they want him to study on the IXL Math website and do activities on an as-yet-unavailable website. The whole thing is stressing me out.
Larkin still hasn't made an appearance, thankfully. Kristina is supposed to be on bedrest, but she doesn't do too well at it. After tomorrow, she's off official bedrest and no longer has to take medication (they gave her procardia to help put off preterm labor) so the baby can come anytime she wants. She might be stubborn and wait until her actual due date (July 13) since the doctors stopped Kristina's labor the first time, but I'm hoping she'll at least hold off until Sunday. And Sunday is Fathers' Day, so it'd be kinda cool if she came then. But Friday is Relay for Life and Saturday we have a suite reserved at the Red Sox game to celebrate my brother's 30th birthday, so I'd like for Kris to be able to be there for those things.
My brother got me a ticketmaster gift card for my birthday (he says he knows I need a concert in my life, lol) but there's not really anything coming up that I need to be at so I don't know what I'm gonna use it on. I do have plans to take Bella to Warped Tour next month. Also, my mom won concert tickets to a summer concert series at Virginia Beach, so she split the tickets between us kids, so I have 2 tickets to see Rascal Flatts on June 24 and no one to go with me.
M figured out I'm a bitch? Idk, it's not like I ever tried to hide it, and my fascination with that whole situation is beyond over. Yall know how I am, I get all excited and into something for a minute, then am ready to move on. So that's over. Lol.
Um... I think that may be it? Oh! I've been able to do things like READ and WRITE lately, so that's awesome! I'm thinking about trying my hand at drabbles or something, but I'm kinda limited in what I feel like I'd be able to write. I think I might revert back to HP fandom. There's a few other fandoms that I might be comfortable in - smaller ones like Haven or Shelter or possibly GK, maybe, or something kinda my own like the werewolf!Empires 'verse. We shall see.
Love yall!