Lots of Changes

I can not believe how things has changed in the last year.  

-The older 2 kids are both in new schools.  No more elementary times for Ashleigh.  Noah starts school an hour and a half earlier and gets out an hour before the elementary kids.  Noah goes to a private school now and he loves his school!  I signed Ethan up for Kindergarten in the Fall.  I can not believe that Ethan will be in school all day!  Since having new schools, I have learned how these schools run things, which Ashleigh's was no problem.  Still trying to keep up with Noah's.  There is so many things us parents need to do.  50/50 tickets almost every month that we sell.  When we don't see those, we have some other kind of tickets to sell.

-We have an old friend in our lives that I have not seen since high school.

-Noah was diagnosed with ADHD earlier this month.  His grades have not been like him.  I will talk more about this in a Disease Awareness for ADHD.  I am reading a book on ADHD, which is called "1,000 Best Tips for ADHD: Expert Answers and Bright Advice to Help You and Your Child" by Susan Ashley PhD.  I am not that far into this book, but it said to use points/tokens to get your child to do certain behaviors.  I am thinking that I may go back to our Behavior/Chore Chart that uses the points and token system.  I did find this, but it took awhile.  I have a habit of emailing files to myself and this is how I found it.  If it was not for me emailing myself, I would not have this file.  Yea Me!!  It was on my old laptop that died!!  I will be doing a post on this along with the House Rules.

-I think the best news I have heard is ..........................Noah is going back into Soccer.  I am so excited and happy.  He is very excited about going back to soccer.  Since Noah is going back to soccer and Ethan is now 5, Ethan will be in soccer, too.  One of my favorite things to do is to watch Noah play soccer.  Now I will have Ethan, too, to watch.  Noah has been playing soccer since he was 5 years old.  He took off a year.

-I am finally getting somewhere in this house even though we had 2 water leaks in the basement.

-Shawn is a volunteer Fireman and he received an award for Firefighter of the Year.  We are very proud of him!

-Ashleigh is in a new Autism program that she gets to do:  gardening, Tennis, swimming, horseback riding.

This is all I can think of.  Have a great night!!
Melissa