Jacob's winter quarter will be done after taking a final tonight. I can't believe we survived this quarter. His education and speech classes were breeze - he missed NO point in education - we often wondered if his teacher was actually reading Jacob's papers... :p But his history class by Mr. Monti Walker was a kill! We went pale when we saw the first assignment and wished he could drop this class but it was too late to switch to another class and have a good start, so we decided to go on a roller coaster. During the final week, Jacob was stressed out, I was stressed out, our children didn't understand... and I cried. I just felt so bad that our girls were affected by Jacob's delayed education. But what do we do now? Quit? Delay longer? What if economy went really bad? Wouldn't we regret that we weren't doing something about it? Ahh, it was tough.
But it is over and Jacob will have a 10-day break! We are planning to work on our yard, garden, fix truck and lawn mower, have Emma's 4th birthday party, and spend lots of lots of time with our girls!
Emma started writing alphabets and reading Japanese. This is as exciting as watching a flower that's about to bloom! I love seeing 'results' of my hard work. (I mean, who doesn't?) Lydia is able to remember what the next word is, so if I was destracted during reading her book, she would remind me of the next word :)
Our Border Collie is learning many tricks: crawl, stand, down/stay, high five, go down the slide, go up the slide, climb upstairs, jump and get it, etc. She can't catch a freesbie yet, but she is obssessed with the game. Our chihuahua will start her obedience class next month. She has come a long way, but she still has some obedience issues. Our teacher said this dog should have been in a class first... Oops!
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Yippeee! Congrats to Jacob for passing and to the rest of you for surviving!! You won't regret going to school!
Glad you guys survived! School is so hard, but worth it in the end. Your kids won't remember how hard it was - - I am speaking from experience. I was almost 8 when my dad graduated from Medical School (he still had two years of undergraduate work when I was born)! Anyway, I remember my mom being a bit stressed a few times, and I do remember that my dad was busy a lot - - but they were both loving and I had NO CLUE how hard it really was for them. I just saw that we were a happy loving family. I wasn't until I was older and looked back that I could see how hard it was for them. When I was little, the world revolved around me- and I was happy- so that meant everyone was happy and OK, right? I didn't care that we didn't have money, or even that my dad was gone a lot- mainly because when he WAS home, he was a loving father. Your girls are young enough, that they probably won't remember much of this anyway, besides images of you reading to them! Hang in there- it is worth it!
hi how are you guys doing its been forever... we are doing Great!! Michael loves his job and the girls are both growing so much. we are currently looking for a home to purchase other then that not to much is going on here. wow jacob is back in school that is awesome!! School is stressful but like many others have said well worth it. So how is life for you guys other then crazy busy? how are the girls doing?
hang in there Jacob (and June!) school is so hard but better now than later. looking back, it will seem so fast- although it doesn't seem like it at the time.
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