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It seems like ages ago…but just six months ago I was all gung-ho excited to be shipping off two girls for school.  I’d have FOUR hours a week  all to myself!  Oh, what joy…what bliss…

So why am I now making plans to take both girls out of preschool?

Yes.  You heard that right.  After years of fighting for Riley’s therapy’s to continue despite her progress…and years of fighting for answers with Angel…I’m pulling them out of the programs that give them thoses therapies.

Why would I do something so drastic?  Am I really calling an end to this?

My reasons are numerous, and Riley holds many of those reasons – because she’s the one in public school, and Angel is the one still in the prviate (i.e. costly) school.

The first reason, and a big concern to us, is that in the past six months Riley has gone from a sweet, occasionally stubborn and rude, little girl…into a holy terror.  Not to us (okay, sometimes) – but to Angel.  Angel looks like she’s been in a UFC fight.  Riley corners her and kicks her mercilessly, she stands on her, she just beats the tar out of Angel.  It’s gotten to the point that we’re deeply concerned.  She did not pick up these ideas around here.

The second reason hit me on Friday, and it was one heck of a shocker.

Riley has LOST learning.  Before she started school I worked with her myself and we had the alphabet down pat.  Numbers, not a problem.  Could she sing her abc’s?  No…but she could recognize any letters you showed her.  The regular testing of this came at the pediatricians office where there is a big alphabet rug in the waiting room.  Our regular waiting room game is to find the letters.

She couldn’t find the P. It was the first letter we tried.  She couldn’t find it.  I told her what color square it was one and she found the color…but couldn’t find the letter.

It was a shock to the system.  And after a weekend of talking we’ve decided to bring them home and try to have me work with them again.  I will look into another state funded preschool that’s available…but for now they will stay home.

In the next couple of weeks I’ll make contact with the school and see what I need to do to withdraw Riley.  From there…we’ll take it one day at a time.

Guess I really need to get working on keeping up with my personal changes, because my days are aobut to get a  lot more full.