*My apologies for the title...I used to be obsessed with Wings and I sometimes channel Thomas Hayden Church.
We (well...everyone else, anyway) read Alice I Have Been this month for book club. I am still struggling through it, bound and determined to finish, but...wow. It's slow. And disturbing in some ways. And complicated in the "is this real? is this not?" sort of way. And, gotta be honest, not making me any more a fan of Alice in Wonderland. What can I say? Some months the book comes easily, sometimes not so much. Which is true of the restaurants we frequent, as well, apparently.
Not to put too fine a point on it (totally laughing should you be singing They Might Be Giants the rest of the day!), but IHop? Not the greatest of book clubbing destinations. Well. At least not the local one. It's full of workers who CLEARLY don't want to be there...thank heavens we had choices to restaurant hop!
In other news...Sammy was accepted to our first choice Charter School for next year. Thursday morning, early, I ran over to the Health Department to fill out an immunization exemption form so we could get him registered for Kindergarten (!) on Friday. For some reason, an exemption form is $15. I don't really get that. But, ANYWAY...I ran back home and gathered the myriad of paperwork required to send my only born out into the cold, cruel world. In the midst of that, the phone rang. It was the director of our first choice Charter School...apparently Sammy was number 12-ish on the wait list and, against all KINDS of odds, his number came up. The spot for next year was ours if we wanted it. And instead of JUMPING at the chance, I did what I do best. I started second guessing. I asked for the weekend to think about it and she answered questions and I started wondering if maybe a traditional elementary school was really better. I put out an email to a friend who had a child in both schools and after her answer, I started wondering even more and really didn't know what to do. If we had gotten this in the first round of the lottery, I would have jumped at the chance, you know? So I was flummoxed at why I was having such a difficult time.
We visited the school on Friday and we were really put at ease. It's a K-8, one class per grade school, classes capped at 20 students. There are some areas that are lacking, but there are areas that are just what I want for him. I don't know that it was the absolute most correct decision, but I don't know that either decision was the absolute most correct decision. And, if it really isn't everything I've seen or heard, we pull him out next year. I think it's just tripping me up that we've selected the school my child will be attending for the next eight years of his life. *shudder* I AM very grateful for the at least 13 people who declined before us. I really didn't think that we had a shot of attending, so this is just...beyond. And I'm hopeful. Especially since Sammy ran right into the Kindergarten room and started playing and exploring and then declared, on the way to the car, "Can I come back tomorrow?". He LOVED it. So very much. And I should be really grateful for that.
For our third topic: Sammy has been sick (just a virus, according to the doctor, even though I really thought he might have something REALLY loud and scary camped out in his chest...) so we've been cooped up this past week. I'm going INSANE. Huh. I think that's about all I have to say about that. Except this. Saturday night, Isaac and I both woke up in the middle of the night at the same time. Horrid stomach ache, both CERTAIN puking was on deck. Twenty very horrible flu ridden minutes ensued. And then it went away. It was so very weird. Especially since we hadn't eaten the same thing since Wednesday night, so...not so much "bad food" related. But seems to wrap up my week in a "yeah, that's about right" kind of way.
How soon is spring?
(paul weller...my ever changing moods - this seems to be footage from concerts the same year we saw him in LA. It was an AMAZING concert. One I would love to repeat sometime.)
5 clever comments:
Tawnya, you're amazing to get through that book (Alice I Have Been) I couldn't get past about page 60... I closed it and I don't plan to finish it. Creepy crawly yucky. But that's my opinion.
I'm sure Sammy will love the Charter school. It's so hard to know what to do. I remember being in that situation when Gabe was ready to start Kindergarten. I think all we can do is do our research and go with what feels right and test the waters. We have been so happy with our Elementary school here. I know there's great teachers and schools everywhere. I hope you have a good experience.
And I hope you're all feeling better :)
I'm with Lacy- I think I only made it to about page 60 and couldn't get past it. Just couldn't bring myself to care. Sad to say. It happens. Sometimes for me if I'm not in the mood for a particular book it won't stick. But later when I pick it up (if I do ever pick it up again) something clicks. I doubt I'll be picking this one up again though because it drags. You live you learn.
Sorry about cabin fever. I hear ya. Hope it can pass soon!
I am interested in Charter schools right now. I have my application in at one. I have heard good things about the ones around here and have been impressed with the students that come to us from them. I will be interested in learning from your experience should I not get hired there.
And just so you know- food poisoning can occur up to 10 days after eating the affected food- so it is still a possibility.
So it's me being nosey...why do you need an immunization exempt form? Did you not have Sammy get his immunizations? We've had all sorts of dangerous outbreaks/hospitalizations in our area among the kids who haven't been immunized...chicken pox, measles, pertussis, H1N1, just to name a few.
In CA there are very few Charter schools which makes it really easy to send your kids to school. The choice: public school, private school, or homeschool. Of course you know we have to pay an arm and a leg to be in this school district so it better be good enough that we don't need Charter schools.
Holly - He's mostly immunized. We do a delayed schedule and he wasn't completely caught up to the 'preferred' schedule by the time early registration rolled around last week. I'm not anti, by any means, just prefer a little slower / one at a time route.
We have 4 Charters here in our town. Some weren't even an option (actually all but the one we got into!). And the public schools are good enough that if we don't like the charter, we'll have no qualms pulling him and switching at all.
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