Happy Veterans Day!

As today is Veterans Day I decided to use today to thank the men and women who have served for our freedoms and rights and those currently serving. As a veteran myself and seeing the devastation of 9/11 I can humbly say thank you to you all. May we not forget that without these brave men and women this country would have fallen long ago. So please take a moment from your day and thank a soldier past or present.

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NaPloBoMo Day 6

Day 6: If I could change one thing about myself what would it be?

This is interesting for the simple reason that on any given day I can think of about 10 things I hate about myself, much to my husbands dismay. So for that reason I would change my views on how I see myself from the way I look to how I do things.

I would give myself more self esteem and more confidence in myself. I tell my daughter that she can do anything she puts her mind to and that she is pretty without makeup and don't listen to my own advice.

I have always had low self esteem, I've never thought of myself as pretty and to this day at the age of 31 happily married with 2 kids will still look at my husband and tell him how ugly I am and how I hate my body image and all sorts of things. He of course disagrees with everything I say and tries to get me to see myself how he does; however that doesn't always work and other times I just pretend it does.

So that is what I would change about myself and why.

NaPloBoMo days 2-3

So I am trying to catch up purely because I like the writing prompts that were given for the days I missed. I will then do a seperate blog post for today and start writing daily from there.

Day 2: My favorite character of all time. This took some consideration as I read a lot and watch movies. I picked Katniss from The Hunger Games, both the literary version and the movie version. She is strong, stood up for what she believed in and never backed down even when things got rough. We go through a lot on a daily basis but if I had to tell my daughter to be like one person it would be her. Stand up for yourself and others and never back down for what is right. Jennifer Lawrence also did a great job in representing the character in the book with what I thought was vey close to the book.

Day 3: Tell you about my writing place. This is kinda awkward at the moment as I don't have a set writing place due to not having our own home. I write wherever I can. If I get a chance and have Internet that it. Once we get our own place and our stuff out of storage and down here from NY I'll go back to writing at my desk and redo my vision boards to where I can see them when I write and have them motivate me in other aspects of my life as well.

NaPloBoMo

So I signed up to do a blog post a day the month of November through the BlogHer website. I am already behind :( due to working odd hours (one day will be evening and the next could be days or ovenights) and looking for a place to live since we have until the 15th of this month to be out of my brothers. So here goes on tying to catch up!

Day 1 was If you found one million dollars in the morning and had to spend it by nightfall, what would you do with the money?

Well for starters I'd definetely buy a house so that stessor would be gone. It would also be the house of mine and my husbands dreams! I would also pay off my car loan and pay off anything on mine and my husbands credit report. I would get my kids the things they needed along with stuff they didn't and spoil my husband with getting him a car and the motorcycle he's always wanted. I would help our parents with any financial situations that way they wouldn't have to worry about those anymore. I would buy our parents a home whereever they wanted. I would set up college funds for my kids with a little extra for their first house. After all this I would donate what was left to CTF as they are a charity near and dear to my heart.

I know this may sound blah to some people but after the last couple of months we have had I would love to be able to do this for my family.

Its been awhile....

I realize it has been forever since I have posted an entry on here and I feel like I have abandoned my tiny blog. I have reasons for not posting which include moving to a different state and trying to find jobs while staying with my brother.

We moved to SC 2 weeks ago and me and my husband have been job hunting since before we even hit the state with no luck yet. We are staying with my little brother in his 2 bedroom townhouse; so me, my husband and our 2 kids are all crammed together. Lets hope we find jobs soon and can get into our own place before long.

This month also seems to be the month of everything expiring; my nursing license (which I need to transfer to this state but don't have the money to do so at this point, which is hindering my job hunt) and my drivers license from NY also expires next Thursday on my birthday. I am waiting on my birth certificate from NY to transfer that which will hpefully arrive before then otherwise I might have to start all over which will not be a good thing as I am the sole driver between my husband and me.

On the flip side homeschooling Tayler through the k12 program has been doing pretty good. I can't open any documents on my computer from them as my computer is about to bite the dust and it won't let me but the school has been pretty considerate on that aspect. Hopefully she continues to do well so I can prove people wrong about homeschooling her. No one really wanted me to homeschool her as she has learning incapabilities due to her NF that cause me to spend more time then necessary doing all her lessons with her. I have kept her out of special education this long and I plan to continue to do so. NF will not hinder her and I will continue to teach her that it does not make her who she is but instead is just a part of who she is.

On that note I will leave this post at that and add more posts throughout the weekend and week now that we are a bit more settled. Wish me luck because I need it right now.

Pre-enrolled!

As many of you know we are in the process of moving back to my home state. I have also been getting all the paperwork for Tayler to start in her charter school program.

We are now officially pre-enrolled! I am only missing 2 documents and then she will officially be enrolled and her school books will be sent to my brothers where we are going to be temporarily staying.

Needless to say I am excited as this is the best program I have seen. They took everything into consideration and built in extra math help into her daily schedule. I am relieved that I will no longer have to fight to get her the extra help. Teachers will no longer look at me and say that I have the responsibility of teaching her at home as well until they find out that I DO work with her and for hours at a time after I would get out of work. My husband would work with her as well. That's when their attitude would change and I would get the help that she needed.

With this charter school I hope that we will finally have a stress free (as possible) and a successful school year. I shall keep ya'll posted with our progress. All smiles now!

Homeschooling thru a charter school

I have wanted to homeschool Tayler for a couple of years now. She gets left behind put pushed to the next grade at the same time. I have begged the school for an IEP or a 504 plan but they refused stating they did not have the extra staff to spend extra time with her on math and that I should be doing math with her at home. Little did they know until me and Tayler went to a conference with her teacher and principal that not only was I sitting with her and helping her with ALL her homework but I was also devoting at least 2 hours a day just to flashcards and math games to help her. They could not believe that after working a full time job I was coming home and spending all that time with her. Tayler does have some learning disabilities due to the NF1, but she can learn the age appropriate stuff as long as someone is willing to go the extra mile with her and help her more. They finally agreed to have the teacher do some extra help with her in the mornings and to cut her literature circle time in half to give the teacher time to help her then too. I felt like this was great that she was finally getting help she needed, but at the same time she was losing out on her group discussions about the book they were reading. I looked into homeschooling and charter schools. Because we live in NY state charter schools, which are online schools, are not acceptable but private charter schools are. The private charter schools were more expensive than the private schools in the area! Homeschooling really wasn't an option as I worked full time during the day and my husband works full time on overnights. When we found out we were moving to SC I decided to look up charter schools again. I found one through connectionsacademy.com and was amazed when watching the video for the school! I immediately started getting the necessary paperwork in and explaining our situation to them. They have been extrememly helpful and I already have her course listings, which include built in math tutoring and an extra life skills class. Tayler needs OT, PT and neurocognitive testing once we move. With the charter school it is still very regimented in that she can not miss more than 10 days or she will be kicked out of the school, but when we have our appointments as long as she has an internet connection she can attend school. This was a big thing for me she doesn't have to miss school anymore. And because SC accredits the school it is free, we have to supply the laptop, webcam and headset so she can see and talk to her teacher as well as hear them and the internet. But for the amount of help she is going to get this is a small price to pay! I will keep you updated as the school year progresses but I hope this is a dream come true for her!