Late night thoughts

I've been lost for awhile. Don't ask me where I have been because it was not pretty and I've messed up or neglected my blog. So that is why I've started afresh.

I feel like I'm back now, to post about my boys and about my journey in being a mother, a better mother and of course my weight loss efforts.

While I was away my memory has gone kaput and I heard that that can happen when under a lot of stress and I have been and still am at times but I'm going to start focusing on meditation and breathing and try to do more yoga, we've been talking about it and we've come to the conclusion that we've been doing a lot of talking lately and not a whole lot of doing. So we will be trying to change that. Plus, mind games to get my head back in the game and my memory back.

Things we are focusing one:

*One on one time with the boys.

*Walking everyday.

*A better bedtime routine, well just a not so rushed one.

Things I'm working on

*Taking the time for me

*working some of the suggestions that we've been given by the variety of specialists to help our boys burn energy or concentrate on movement and some speech stuff.

*Writing, I want to start writing again, not just the blog but writing my stories again, I miss it so much.

*Daily exercise, even 10 minutes, something whether is be walking, yoga, aqua fit or sweat inducing dvd workouts.

*Games night, some women I've been hanging with have done a couple of games night and it's been super fun and we are going to make it a monthly thing. It's just so nice to let loose a little and fan a blast with some women.

Well, I had better get to bed I just stayed up too late watching Julie and Julia and I really enjoyed it.

Well, Kale has been in his part time schedule for about a month now. It seems to be working well, he's loving all the one on one attention and doesn't seem to be missing his class. He misses certain friends but that's it. He still has a hard time with impulse control and stopping himself from going to far but it's getting easier for him to stop once an adult steps in.

So after spring break (next week), he'll get his testing done by the psychologist and then maybe we'll have a few more answers. She's already done the observations but now it's time to get the testing done. They've also put in the reports for this committee in the City that will look at their resources and let us know what they can provide.

After spring break he'll also have a tutor in the afternoons. They've found someone and have the tutor funding, so he'll be with his tutor in the afternoons at specified location and they will do work together, so Kale stays caught up on his work. I'm glad that things are going this way because they just aren't sure how much longer they can divvy up the resources like this. I just hope that with everything we are doing that he'll get his own EA next year and he'll be able to be in his class.

It's not like he's a bad kid, he's just challenging and has an active mind and that can be a huge challenge for teachers with a class full of other students. I understand that. He has an IEP in place and we are using that to get some one on one help for the summer.

So it's all good and moving along smoothly at this point. He seems excited to be working with a tutor and getting out of the house. So I'm happy things are going better and I'm not feeling so stressed about it.

Recent pictures of the boys.

Back to basics...

I've restarted this blog. I felt like I was in a rut and needed a change but something different. Not sure if that makes sense. So I'll leave it open and just write about family, life, weightloss, etc. as always but with a clean slate. I'm just starting fresh.