Sunday came as Mother's Day. I got to celebrate by taking my mother-in-law back home after she stayed the weekend with us for my stepson's graduation. I absolutely love my mother-in-law so this was so nice to be able to have this time. We discussed how much we were going to get to see her this year, which is more than we have in quite a while. It feels good to be able to get up and travel again. It's been a rough few years. However, after that wonderful trip ... I got to come home to children who wouldn't get along and I was forced to have them not talk to each other and sit on opposite sides of the vehicle. Thankfully, it ended semi decently with a night out with the hubby at one of our favorite restaurants (even if it POURED on us leaving the restaurant).
Monday brought the start of my final week of school. It also started with a flat tire and ended with a massive meltdown from my 11 year old. He did not care for the fact I needed to have an adult conversation with his case manager and he was not allowed to be present. I spent a majority of the evening cooling that off and then studying for a test that was the next morning.
Tuesday started out great finding out that two sections of homework I did was completely extra credit ... but I wasn't given any of it back to find out if I did anything correctly and it was going to be on the final 2 days later. I also found out that the test was only over two chapters instead of 3 ... so that was a little less stressful. Unfortunately, my good day came to a crashing halt when I discovered that my daughter had overslept that morning because she was on her phone past curfew and spent that time on Facebook ... again. I changed her password again for Facebook until we could talk about things and I had to cool down before talking to her about her addiction to social media.
On Wednesday, I gave my final project that I was up until all hours of the night working on ... mainly because we had curfew issues with my daughter ... again. Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a very complex and frustrating condition to deal with. We had our case manager come and offer support and I felt like we made a lot of progress. Unfortunately, we found out later in the week that it was nothing but lies. :(
Thursday was my last final and I went into it not only nervous but exhausted. I also had to spend the entire day prepping for re-inspection on Friday since we were given a 48 hour notice that we had stuff that needed to be fixed prior to passing inspection. It was an absolute pain trying to get everything done, study for my tests, and keep the kids on task. I was so thankful when Thursday ended, because the house came together and my husband was AWESOME.
Friday was my day of rest ... but it turned out that ALL the stress I had been encountering all week had done it's damage. I hadn't had everything updated in the calendar, and failed to remember that LEGO KidsFest tickets were for Friday. My husband and I went to dinner together, but came home to extreme fighting and me having to fix the situation with KidsFest since I messed up.
Saturday was my day that was ALMOST perfect ... it will be in two separate blog posts. It ended with dealing with a massive fight though and I had to cancel my plans. So I put another message to case management team so we can figure out how to get the older two back to where they were last fall. They have regressed to spring of 2015, when they weren't even able to speak to each other without ending in a fight.
I am SO thankful that this past week is over. I would have loved to not find out about serious family health issues via Facebook ... or family battling financial woes ... but I came out relatively unscathed. I also have more of a clear direction of what I want out of school and where I want to take this blog. I am determined that this summer will be a good one and have a lot of plans to make it so!
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