Unfocused at Best

A really good friend of mine writes a blog (the next installment of which I am waiting for most impatiently) called "Random Thoughts."  I didn't want to steal that title for this blog, but that's what you're about to read.  There is nothing here that resembles focus.

1.  We got the car fixed.  It took about a week and half, but the car is back to us.  Of course, the bumper is a completely different shade of red than the rest of the car.  Oh well.  I did manage to get rid of the world's ugliest rental car.  It was brand new and lovely on the inside.  It drove nicely, but it was the world's ugliest rental car.  As far as John's friend Craig said, "At least it's the right color."

2.  My glasses are lost again.  I simply cannot keep track of glasses for the life of me.  So I'm wearing a pair that's about 5 years old.  I can see-ish.  They'll turn up somewhere, sometime.  I need a new pair anyway.

3.  Thanksgiving was tough on Anna-banana--too loud, too crowded, no time for her to adjust.  I have, however, come up with a plan of action.  I know who to call within the school system to set the testing ball a-rolling.  I've been wondering how to approach this.  She doesn't have autism and she doesn't have an auditory processing disorder.  I don't want to approach the school system with the possibility of a label that will hurt her in the long run.  So Thanksgiving was tough, but she had a fantastic Christgiving.

4.  My family made up a holiday.  We found that we never got together--all of us--at Thanksgiving and Christmas--hence "Christgiving."  Two of my sisters split the holidays between their in-laws and my parents.  Another sister was a nurse in a hospital and worked some holidays.  So we would pick a weekend some time between Thanksgiving and Christmas and have a full meal and open presents.  Now we do it on the Saturday after Thanksgiving.  It's nice.  The only one missing is my nephew who is stationed in Hawaii right now.

5.  I had my first parent-teacher conference as a parent.  It was actually at this conference that I got the suggestion of how to approach the testing with Anna.  The Jack part of the conference was great.  For the first term in kindergarden, they don't look at academic stuff, just at behavior.  Jack "exceeds expectations" for every category.  The kindergarden version of straight A's.  He's kind of done every one of the standards on the academic side, too.  They just haven't gotten to the point where they assess that.  He's a genius.  He is a little nervous Nelly, though.  He wants to make sure that he's always doing what's correct.  It worries him not only if he's doing something wrong, but also if someone else is.  Since he's so advanced with the curriculum, my goal is for him calm down and relax a bit.

6.  I'm watching "The Amazing Race."  Love this show. 

Enough rambling.