Just Another Manic Monday

Actually, that's a lie. We're not at all manic. We're whiny, temper-tantrum-ie, head-achy, lethargic, wanna-sit-on-our-butts... but manic? No, not manic.

Ok, there we go, I just had to bust out my mommy-voice. I hate it when I have to do that. It always means tears and recriminations. I told Elise four times, "I know you hate it when I yell. Can you please just go do the thing I've asked you to do?"

Apparently not. All of the whining and the tantrums and the sitting around pretending we didn't hear what Mommy just said (twelve times) is because of the homework situation.

The problem is that we're going to move Eliseto a different school next year, and I'm just about 100% certain that she'll be behind when she gets there.

She's been going to George Mayne school in Alviso. We've tried everything to get her out of there - we've been denied transfer three years in a row. We've been told that the transfer school is full, and then met a parent whose child goes to that school, who told us that the second grade was so empty they had to close one of the classes and redistribute the kids to the remaining classes.

Dunno about you, but I don't appreciate being lied to.

So we're done with this freakin' school district. Anyway, the point of this whole diatribe is that I'm homeschooling Elise this summer to be sure she's going to be up to the standards of another school. Right now, however, Elise is having a tough day. We've already had one temper tantrum, and when she finally DID get some work done on her math homework, most of the problems were wrong, because she was really focused on getting to play in the park.

*sigh*

Part of what I'd like to teach her this summer is how to control herself and control her emotions a bit, because she just gets so out of control, and it takes an outside intervention to get her back on track. I realize that some part of this is just the normal workings of an 8-yr-old, but still, might as well get a head start on the concepts, right?

OMG... She's discovered Hulu, and old episodes of Flipper.




What's worse is that I'm going through Hulu now looking for some of the stuff I like. AAAARRGGGHHHH! Just when I thought we'd gotten rid of cable TV.

Oh well. Today is the first official cleaning day for Charlett's homecoming next Saturday. Better get back to it.