What a week

This has been the strangest week.


This post is a chance for me to kind of make sense of it all if I can. I will be asking for your help, not for me but for the others that I will be writing about.

First off our updates. Ella had a little trouble at school the other day. The substitute assistant informed me that at gym class Ella had to be sat down, because she told the teacher three times loud and clear that she sucked. I was applaud. They told her that she needed to apologize and she refused to. Now the assistant told me this in front of all of the other parents and very loudly. I was less then impressed. I did not address it with her, because I was so angry about the whole thing I was not sure if I could do it in a civil way. So when we got home Ella had a time out and then we talked about what happened. She told me that she could not catch the ball and then she said a bad word to the teacher. I asked her what the word was, because she has never used suck before, but that is the word she told me. She did however say. "I said sorry and that is like apologizing and now I am not a bad girl". I explained very sternly that I did not ever what to hear of her talking like that to her teachers again. I told her that on Thursday it was sledding day at school and that Luke had taken the day off from work to go with her, but that when we got to school we would talk to Miss Mary(the gym teacher) and apologize and if she did not we would go back home and Luke would go back to work.

Now I am not a proud Mom. Ella can have a real attitude problem. I see a lot of it myself. But she has never been like this at school, and the head teacher even said to me that she was very surprised by the event. She said that Ella has never done anything like that before. This sub assistant was very confrontational with everyone that day. So I have to wonder how much of this is due to how she handles things, but none the less Ella should not be talk like that to anyone.

Now on to Thursday. We went to school and I had a chance to talk to the lead teacher about how this situation was handled. She told me that she was very upset and that after the parents had left she had a talk with the sub. She said that I was not the only parent that had a situation like that with her that day. Then we went off to see the gym teacher. She was very nice. She really did not seem to understand why Ella was there to apologize because she did no Tuesday, and said that it really was not a big deal.

So now I am really ticked off. This sub not only talked about my personal situation in front of all the other parents and in front of Ella, but then lied about the apology and Ella has been totally stressed out by this for the past few days. I apologized to Ella for not believing her and then we went to class. I talked to the teacher again and told her about the apology issue. I also spoke to the director of the preschool. She told me that she would be talking to the sub. From now on when I drop Ella off at school if she is there Luke or I will be at school for the specials when she is alone with the children.

On to the sledding. Ella, Luke and I had a great time. Ella loves to sled. One time she was walking up the hill and another little girl was coming down. I could not get her out of the way in time and Ella was taken out by the sled, but just kinda of sat down on the other girl and then they both went down the hill together laughing. Fun was had by all. After we went back to the classroom and had hot cocoa and the kids played for a while.





Tomorrow is basketball #2 wish us luck!!!

My friend Cammie has a blog also. http://polanks.blogspot.com/ it is a great read. She has documented their journey through adoption from Guatemala. On her site she has many links to other adoption journeys.

One of these is http://adoptingariana.blogspot.com/. This week this family received the worst news. They received a call telling them that their 3 1/2 month old daughter had died. It is just tragic. I ask that you keep this family, the foster family and the birth family in your thoughts and prayers.

Another family with an adoption journey at http://journeytocaylee.blogspot.com/ has also had a family tragedy. There niece was abducted from her home in Florida. You can read all of the details on their blog. Again please keep this family in your thoughts and prayers.

Another blog that I have been keeping up on is called Confessions of a CF(cystic fibrosis) Husband http://cfhusband.blogspot.com/. This is a very inspirational story. It takes a while to read the whole blog, but it is worth it. Please take time to take a peek, and again another request for thoughts and prayers.

As I was reading this blog for the first time. Ella came and asked me to get her something in the kitchen. I got up and was leaning over a drawer and felt her push on my back and a hot blast of air on my lower back. I turned to ask her wait for a minute and there was no one there. It is one of the wiredest things that has happened to me. I know that people can be with you when they really are not there. Ella has shown that to me many times with my Dad. I just have not had it happen to me before. I am not sure what it meant. Maybe it was the little baby that I have been reading about, or maybe it was God letting me know that he really is out there. I have not made sense of it all yet and I may never. But It was a cool experience.

Thank you for keep these families in you thoughts. Having been through times when others have done it for me. I can tell you that it does not go unnoticed. It really means a lot.

So even though I am not directly involved with these families. It has been quite a week to hear of all of these things happening. It sure gives you a new insight which we all can use once in a while about what is and is not important in life.