Robin's Nest

It has been a long morning. It started at 0400 with #10 finding her tablet and waking the household with her happy squealing. At least it was happy and not tears of frustration. Somehow I manage to doze off again for a few minutes and had the weirdest dream of my life! I certainly hope that is not a dream of my future. That is about all I can say about that dream! This was supposed to be a baby morning but as I looked around at the living room floor, and the counters, and all the other things that did not get done over the weekend... I declined and sent her to Auntie's house. I will take her tomorrow.  I did get the chickens to come out of their coop this morning. It will be short lived as the temperature is supposed to drop again this afternoon. They had a bucket of water that they tipped over in less than ten minutes. I went back in to get my phone from the 10 year-old and when I came back out it was dumped. I then peeled the carrots for Curried Carrot soup and took the peelings ...

Yesterday I thought perhaps I should redo the placement tests for the kids. In reality, we just went with what public school said their grade levels were. I was really excited when I looked in the teacher's manual that there was a "readiness" worksheet for the second grade math book. I already knew that with #9 there would be some challenges just based on being on the spectrum. Plus with an IEP in public school I was kept apprised of where she was in each subject according to them. With the youngest I just went with the grade level that the school planned on putting her in. So after 3 hours of testing the oldest and her struggling through with tears and determination, I set up the table to begin with the youngest... and abruptly stopped and packed up the car to run to town. I received a call that my meds were ready for pick up. Luckily my daughter said hey bring them by here and I will conduct the test. I took advantage of that and also advantage that I could steal 10 ext...