Sorry I have been absent lately it has been pretty gloomy around here causing me to go a little crazy Also, I have been making a few decisions about wingnut’s schooling and have not been motivated to do much in that department until it was settled. Also, I have been working on my dear jane quilt but I will talk more on that tomorrow. Today will be about wingnut.

After a discussion with husband and the speech therapist, I got persuaded to put him in a preschool where a speech therapist is on site to work with the kids. I have strong feelings on how my son should be educated and this decision has been hard on me. I took a tour of the preschool and it is the atypical school. There is the block corner, the art corner, the imaginary play area, the toy area, and the circle time rug.  Which in themselves is not bad but I feel to actually teach a kid something, so that when they go into school they will know more then just how to say there abc’s, more needs to be involved. I do feel that the preschool will teach him things like interacting with other kids and circle time will help with sitting still, so it will not be all bad. To make myself feel better about this decision, I am looking at it as if it is just play time with other kids and I will be teaching him at home just like I have been.

I have talked to him about preschool and am not sure if he completely understands, part of that is due to his lack of communication skills. I asked him if he wanted to go to school? He said, “ok?” I asked if he wanted to ride the bus? He said, “ok?” He said both of those ok’s with a questioning tone. Hopefully he loves it and if not I will tell by if he wants to go.

On another school note, my eleven year old brother-in-law was having trouble in school so they pulled him out to home school. The problem now is his mom works full time and his dad stays at home.  Not to be mean but just stating the facts, he is old, lazy,  heavily medicated, and does not stay on top of his schooling. Nothing gets done till my mother-in-law has her weekend off of work. Not fare to her! To help her out we decided to have him come over to our place on Wednesdays so I can make him do his homework. That poor kid is going to hate me!!! He is going to sit at that table until he is done! Seriously I am not joking!

I will be taking a bit of a break from my regular posts until I get my dear jane caught up, more about that tomorrow. But to share just a couple of things with you, here is wingnut doing some puzzles, tracing and cutting work.