Spring Break

We are on Spring Break..today is the official first day, currently it is a high of 1 degree outside. According to the forecast, the temperatures won't rise high enough for a good melt until AFTER we return fron the break. We aren't doing anything this year for several reasons.

1. I am attmepting to save some money
2. Mim is in track and they have a meet today and practice this whole week
3. I have a big paper to write for class
4. I finally have bought new running shoes and will begin running, huffing and puffing outside....

Tuki attended a Destination Imagination competition on Saturday. First time ever, she liked it, the team didn't rank high, but there were only 5 members on the team, 1 kindy, 1 first, 2-second graders, and 1 third. 8 years old was the highest age. This was Tuki's elementary school's first year trying this.

Then on Sunday, the two wee one started attending an overnight birthday party in which they went to a waterpark, Olive Garden, hotel, and a movie...they are still gone. Mim commented last night that it was weird without them at home.

Mim made pancakes and her first patch of chocolate chip cookies last night. They both tasted wonderful.

I have Mim on a behavior contract for track. She has broken it several times in only 11 days after signing it. I sometimes wonder will she ever start to learn, because she understands the benefits in good behavior, and not because I force her to comply..anyway I see her doctor on April 17, this will begin Mim's sessions for her behaviors. We waited 6 months to see this doctor, but I heard she was really good with adoption issues and adoptive children..I sure hope so.

I feel with Mim we take 1 step forward, immediately followed by 2 steps backward. I think she understands something, mainly because I talk it to death, and then when it comes to applying it in a new situation and even sometimes an old situation, she will say "you didn't say to do that" even though I have said it thousands of times before....it is EXHAUSTING to me.

In addition, she constantly compares herself to her two sisters, who are 7 and 9 years younger than her one minutes, and then the next minute she demands to be treated like an older child thar is allowed more privileges...another exhausting roller coaster we deal with much too often.