Friday, May the 5th, Bobby came home early from work to cut the grass in time to attend Landis' Mother's Day Out graduation. I got a good shot of the "pulling of the wagon."

The Tuesday before I met with Grace's teacher and therapists for the annual IEP, Individualized Education Plan. We discuss the goals that have been met or not yet been met and the new goals for the coming school year. I am pleased with Watauga and feel very blessed to be in a school zone such as this one. The principle, Mrs. Lisa Cobb, still uses a paddle! I couldn't believe it when I heard that. I told everyone at the IEP that I would like to keep Grace home for the summer instead of sending her to summer school like I did last year. I want to work with her for a couple of hours every day and if, at the beginning of the next school year the therapists feel like she's regressed in any way, I'll send her to school next summer. I won't know which is the better way to do it until I've tried both ways. I KNOW that me working with her at home for a couple of hours a day is far better than sending her to summer school. But it's that actual "work" part that determines her welfare. If I can't seem to get to Grace because of other children and housework, then maybe summer school would be better. I'm going to give it my best shot. I worked on a schedule today - school is out in less than 2 weeks.

Kevin & Mary Calderhead drove the kids home in our van yesterday and Bobby and I took the Calderhead's car and went out for lunch for Mother's Day. I know, as Mary mentioned in her blog that I'm not Bobby's mother. However, neither of us have a mother nearby and it's whole lot of work for the whole family to go out for lunch, AND we look for opportunities to go out for a couple of hours. So, Bobby and I go to lunch every Mother's Day ALONE. Some day our children will go along for Mother's Day lunch and it will be great. I had lunch ready and the table set yesterday morning when we left the house at 6:40. Hopefully Mary and Kevin found everything fairly simple concerning getting everyone and everything in the house and getting everyone fed. Bobby and I had a nice leisure lunch and then took a Mother's Day card to Ms. Terrie Weeks at the nursing home in Hendersonville. We visited with her for about 10 minutes and then hurried home to relieve the Calderheads.