You may now devise a schedule to return to...

Daily cute thing... Kayla giving me kisses before school today. :)

Being told you can work on your own schedule and at your own pace sounds great until you have to come up with a schedule on your own. Charlie will go to school year round starting September 12 and ending August 25. He'll have a school day from 9am to 3:30 pm. Please don't call during those hours on weekdays unless you have to, just email me instead. That's all the updates I have for today, it's been a slow day on the homeschool front, I made a schedule and started rereading some books on homeschooling that Dad & Mara got for me as a Christmas present years ago.

Thank you to everyone who sent me supportive notes, comments and emails after yesterday's post. Perhaps I was wrong and I have more support than I know. I'm sorry if I offended anyone or hurt any feelings with my comments. I had more than a few conversations today with friends who are also parents of special needs kids, and we all agree in some way or another that the hardest part of being such a parent is the constant fighting. Fighting for what is best for your kid. Fighting for what you know you and your child are entitled to. Fighting to convince doctors, therapists, and teachers that you are not an idiot and can understand and deal with anything they tell you. Fighting against ignorance... not stupidity, but ignorance of what you and your child deal with every day. And fighting against the hopelessness and despair all of us feel sometimes when we ask "Why me? Why my kid?". Sometimes us "special parents" get so used to being in a fighting mode that we fight when there's nothing to fight about, and that's what happened to me yesterday.

That said, I still have it a lot better than some people today. Everyone take whatever you can give, money, blood, food, water, toys, school supplies, blankets, whatever you've got and give it to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, or whichever disaster relief organization you like, and let's help out these poor people in Lousiana and Mississippi. Except the ones that were perfectly capable of leaving when they were ordered to and stayed anyways, they annoy me. :)