Yucky Week

The past few weeks have been really stressful here. Two fridays ago Kieran woke up with a hacking cough and runny nose. We spent the weekend basically nursing him back to health. That Monday Jenna wakes up with it and she gets it much worse than Kieran did. She was running a temp that was hard to break and just felt miserable. Miserable days, even worse nights. I took her to the Ped and she wrote her a prescription for some high test cough medicine, which we found out had just been discontinued and went from Pharmacy to Pharmacy to find it. (a pain but it did help pass the time with Kieran who's been bored to death in the house) I think I came down with the cold Thursday or Friday, minus the cough and fever. This morning Jenna seems much perkier. She's been very whiney and clingy, understandably so. She's back to pulling all the books off of the bookshelf.

School. That's been another issue we've been dealing with the past few weeks. Towards the end of December Kieran was being gradually introduced into the next pre-school class. At first he liked it but as the days went on I was struggling terribly getting him to go into that classroom. Observing the teacher (who I originally thought was a sweet white haired 60 year old lady) I realized not only was she totally disorganized but she was very bossy to the kids. She had a very old school way of teaching. Not to mention she and the assistant were bickering like crazy. There's far more to the story but my last straw was when I got there and she told me that Kieran had thrown a ball over the fence and I had to get it. I usually bring things up to the owner or the director of the school but at that point I was so fed up. I just stormed out and went searching for a new school. I was SO furious I kept quiet because I knew I would go off and say a lot of really nasty things. I just decided to cut my losses.

Anyway, we found a school, put the deposit down and the next day and Kieran gets to his old school and the teacher is gone. She got her dream job at a law firm library and left. Of course this new teacher was just amazing. Kieran LOVED school now and he was coming home so excited from his day. Arrgh. Of course. I had many sleepless nights over this. Again, there's far more to this story. I had already given my notice to the old school.

This past Thursday was the parent-teacher conference. Ours was with the director because our teacher was new and felt she wasn't qualified to do them yet. Turns out when I mentioned what was going on she was blown away. I gave her proof of things that were going on and she realized that this teacher was absolutely lying her teeth off to them. She would be perky and happy when they were there and seemed organized. I had 2 Incident Reports from when Kieran got hurt that she never gave to me or the director-the new teacher found them in the closet. Big no-no. They MUST be given to both the parent and the Director -explained and then signed. And the daily reports we get. They are supposed to have positive notes on them about your kid's day. Hers had some really negative comments all over them. Although they did notice the bickering between her and the assistant and moved the assistant to another class thinking it was her. They were upset that I didn't say anything which I absolutely understand. I don't know why I didn't either. I normally do. I think I had just had it. I think I felt like that was all I ever did. I'm always in there talking to them about things I do and don't like.

To make this really really long story a bit shorter we decided to stay. At least until March when he moves up to the next class and then we'll re-evaluate. Kieran just adores this new teacher and she's doing amazing things with the kids. We just love her!