Home School Adventure Update
Is it one word or two? Homeschool? Home School?
Anywho, It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Jeremiah has a lot of trauma-versaries in March, and he is coming up on his two-year anniversary of being with us. He has never been with a family for two years before, so this is such a huge deal to him. He’s been taking every opportunity to show us that he is totally freaked out and that he KNOWS that he is going to have to leave any day, so he might as well do it on his terms.
Yeah. That’s been fun. But, hey, he’s still here.
Anywho, because of above circumstances, there has not been a whole lot of academics being done so far this month. Some days he can’t even handle being down stairs at all, he just wants to hide in his room, and I do mean hide, and I have to be okay with that. Actually, on those days, I AM okay with that. I get some house work done, take a lot of deep breaths, and use that time to recharge ME! Then the next day we try again.
We’ve been reading through The Chronicles of Narnia, which he is absolutely addicted to. It’s become a huge motivator and a great bonding/snuggle time. Something I sometimes have to convince myself to do.
But this week he has been really trying. Still lots of ups and downs, but he’s working through the feelings instead of letting them take complete control. Today, as a reward for all his hard work, we are going to have lunch with Daddy at a new gourmet hot dog joint called Johnny Dogs. I am super excited! First, because I am psyched that Jeremiah actually accomplished his goal of finishing his work all week, second because Hubby has been talking this place up since this past summer when the owner was selling the dogs off a cart in the park. I WANT IT! 
Anywho, Jeremiah is excelling. He struggles integrating new material, but once he gets it, he doesn’t lose it.
Oh! And he has a new Psych. doctor appointment next month to help with his meds. YAY! This has been a big issue since he has only had a family care doctor up to this point, who admittedly does not have the expertise to handle my growing child’s medication needs.
And by growing, I mean growing! He has grown another 1/2 inch in the past 4 weeks. A total of 3 1/2 since last October. Holy wha!
So we are truckin’. Surviving. Hoping to start thriving any day now.
And now, off to Johnny Dogs!
Blessings!
Hannah
Update: Johnny dogs was great. So yummy. Then we came home and J. had a complete and total melt down. Of coarse. I knew it was coming, but I still wish he could just let himself have good things. It’s a major bummer. Oh, I think I forgot to mention that Gabe’s 18th birthday is coming up on Monday. Yeah. What a weekend this will be.
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