Highlights and Lowpoints.

This week has gone somewhat better with settling into a school routine.  We have had some challenges though.

I'm looking forward to our trip to Children's Hospital next month. 

I think that Mallory may need some adjustments with her meds.  Again.

Today, we missed the bus. 

Really it was just 10 minutes early. 

But, Mallory wasn't ready. 

She still had shoes to get on and glasses to find.

I sent the bus driver on her way and told Mallory that I would take her to school.  She was pretty excited. 

She skipped her way in to the lunch line, gave me a big thumbs-up and said "Bye Mama!"

I thought to myself "This is going so well.", that is until I went to leave.

Meltdown.  Drama. Chaos.

Guess it's time to work on a better plan for drop off.

On the brighter side, we were working on the house last night.  Painting trim.

I had folded laundry earlier that day.  Mallory took it upon herself to take everyone's laundry and place it in their bedrooms.  Without being told.  What an accomplishment!

In the news.

Mallory made the Salina Journal on Monday, August 22nd.

Done right.

Hannah came home from school today and she was upset. A friend of Hannah's said some not so nice things to a little girl with special needs at school.  Hannah stood up for this little girl, even though she didn't even know her name. She talked to me for quite some time about this incident.  She was mostly upset that her friend would say these things.. She said "That would be like somebody picking on my sister and I don't like it."  I take pride in knowing that Mallory's siblings take pride in her and want to protect, but am amazed at the fact that they carry that on to other children with special needs.  Deep down it tells me that we have done something right.