G'day, people.
School almost done for the year for a lot of you - very exciting. I can't imagine what it must be like to have the school year finish, but not have Christmas almost on top of you. For us, the school year finishes only a few days before Christmas, then we have New Year a week later - we get thrown into "holiday" mode fast, rapidly followed by "veg out" mode and sleep in the sun. Festival of Sydney begins on Jan 1 for us, so all of January is one huge party all through the city, always loads of things to do and see. By the time it's over, school goes back for the new school year at the end of January.
I hope those of you dealing with either flooding rain or scorching heat get some relief from the extremes. All the best for those going through graduation.
We had a very busy day today. difficult child 3 slept in - I let him, after the late night last night seeing the film with friends of ours. But it was a rush to get in to the school, we did it with seconds to spare. I dropped difficult child 3 off as close to the gate as I could so he wouldn't have to hobble far. He was using one of my spare crutches with his sore foot.
By the time I got there to sign in, difficult child 3's class was just starting. There were 7 students in all, most of the others were from a major performing arts high school (if you ever see awards shows coming out of Sydney, these are the kids who are dancing as a troupe). difficult child 3 wanted me to sit in with him so I got a couple of chairs (the other for a second supervising teacher) but still got a few errands done (handing in the work he'd done for the past week including his exam from a few days ago). He was fidgetty - still tired and also distracted by his sore foot. He woke up fast when we moved out to do some chemistry experiments! They were given worksheets to do (equivalent to a week's work for the subject) and got the first part done as they logged the results of their experiments.
Then a short break, and back to the classroom for biology. Microscopes, etc. Very basic stuff, but the school has better microscopes than the one we have at home, so difficult child 3 could see a lot more detail, he was really enjoying it all. They no longer have a blackboard in the room, they are using an interactive computer screen. One of the teachers was trying to get it to 'perform' and was grateful to difficult child 3 for showing her how. "When did you learn to do this?" she asked him.
"I've never seen them before," he told her. "But it makes sense to me."
It was funny - she had tried to show difficult child 3 how the screen can do certain tasks - and it was difficult child 3 who quickly worked it out and showed her!
The other kids all had to head off as soon as we finished at 1 pm (they probably had performing arts classes this afternoon) but with difficult child 3's sore leg I didn't want to rush him; besides, I still had teachers to track down. I left him finishing off his worksheets while I hurried to the takeaway shop to buy a classic Aussie burger for his lunch - and he had finished the worksheet soon after I got back, so he was the first kid to get the day's work handed in. The science teacher gave us the next month's work in science for difficult child 3 and talked to me about the last therapist report; the technology teacher talked to us about difficult child 3's new film project and our new computer. We finally left at about 2 pm, difficult child 3 really whining now about his sore foot, so on the way home we saw a walk-in clinic and had it x-rayed. We think he may have dislocated the foot last night, then when husband was massaging it something clicked back in place. Hopefully he'll be feeling better by tomorrow.
Tonight girlfriend has been here, talking with difficult child 1 about wedding plans and both of them looking online for wedding registries, wedding cake designs etc. easy child 2/difficult child 2 is at her college class tonight and BF2 is working late; they will be home in about an hour or so at about 10.30 pm.
A very productive day!
Enjoy your Thursday, everyone.
Marg