We met with Madison's speech teacher this morning, and for the first time in years we actually feel like there's someone that might be useful at the school system, helping her along. Things were encouraging - this was an honest assessment, without all the lingo. Example, we didn't hear the words "phonological" or "suprasegmental" even once. I think those are words that are brought out from time to time to impress colleagues and hopeful parents. But back to the meeting this morning, we actually enjoyed it. Up until now, these were things we had to endure, meetings that felt to us as if we were just "going through the motions," and it's "something that the school had to do." Before, we'd get to listen to someone talk about a student (fill in students name here, because it might has well have been any student), and some vague exercises here or there along with some slight phonological suprasegmental progress. But today, we felt as if the teacher was actually familiar with Madison, and we all were recognizing the symptoms and coming up with useful strategies to help her along in our move forward. Yes, prosody is one of those words we used. But we know what it means, and that's one of our goals, to improve that prosody, that melody of speech, her intonation and articulation. At this point, it's her kryptonite, and we're determined to help her move forward with that. We came out with a little more confidence that we can do that, versus a previous attitude that perhaps maybe someday it will all work itself out.
Tonight we had taekwondo, and we were hitting things with sticks again. Because why not? Seriously, the training with the bahng mahng ee weapons is fun to watch, all these kids with their pretend lightsabers striking out at practice bags.
Meanwhile, Daddy is watching on, actually working on this computer, writing out Summer Xtreme messages. We're almost done with them, but this year's messages haven't exactly fallen in place as easily as the last few years. Sometimes a message is just there and it spills out easily, nearly writing itself. This year, the last two messages have taken about a week each to write. They're intensive processes, for just a short little few pages. But each page represents a morning at KidPak this summer that will hopefully change lives, so that's why I can't always be "done with it," ready to move on. Sometimes, I feel confident, a spiritual stamp on things when it is finished, and then I'm done with it. But these last two have been far from that. I could be done with it, and ready to move on, but that "spiritual stamp on it," just isn't there. It would be a good message, but there's something holding me back on these two, and I'll just keep seeking and tweaking until we get it.
Of course, tonight we watched Gravity Falls, and we also read a few more chapters from "The Sword of Mercy," which is really getting close to the end now. This is somewhat bittersweet, as it is a goodbye to some characters that we've been reading for the last few months now in a great series of books.
Mommy had cheese and crackers all set up for us. Madison isn't the biggest fan of this, but Daddy and Mommy love the set up of different varieties of cheese, and of course different crackers too. We get these unusual cheeses, some familiar and others something new to try out. The Wensleydale with cranberries is really good, and in fact the other cheeses were good tonight too. It's just a fun thing to do from time to time.
We said our prayers tonight, thinking about the week upcoming. We've got a lot going on at the church upcoming. And Milestones is still going on - one more day of that. Today's testing was again "boring," as Madison described it yesterday. Tomorrow should be a nice day, free from these tests for another year.
Tonight we had taekwondo, and we were hitting things with sticks again. Because why not? Seriously, the training with the bahng mahng ee weapons is fun to watch, all these kids with their pretend lightsabers striking out at practice bags.
Meanwhile, Daddy is watching on, actually working on this computer, writing out Summer Xtreme messages. We're almost done with them, but this year's messages haven't exactly fallen in place as easily as the last few years. Sometimes a message is just there and it spills out easily, nearly writing itself. This year, the last two messages have taken about a week each to write. They're intensive processes, for just a short little few pages. But each page represents a morning at KidPak this summer that will hopefully change lives, so that's why I can't always be "done with it," ready to move on. Sometimes, I feel confident, a spiritual stamp on things when it is finished, and then I'm done with it. But these last two have been far from that. I could be done with it, and ready to move on, but that "spiritual stamp on it," just isn't there. It would be a good message, but there's something holding me back on these two, and I'll just keep seeking and tweaking until we get it.
Of course, tonight we watched Gravity Falls, and we also read a few more chapters from "The Sword of Mercy," which is really getting close to the end now. This is somewhat bittersweet, as it is a goodbye to some characters that we've been reading for the last few months now in a great series of books.
Mommy had cheese and crackers all set up for us. Madison isn't the biggest fan of this, but Daddy and Mommy love the set up of different varieties of cheese, and of course different crackers too. We get these unusual cheeses, some familiar and others something new to try out. The Wensleydale with cranberries is really good, and in fact the other cheeses were good tonight too. It's just a fun thing to do from time to time.
We said our prayers tonight, thinking about the week upcoming. We've got a lot going on at the church upcoming. And Milestones is still going on - one more day of that. Today's testing was again "boring," as Madison described it yesterday. Tomorrow should be a nice day, free from these tests for another year.
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