A New Week

It's Monday!  The start of a new (COLD!!) week. 

Carson dropped his iPad on the kitchen floor last week and shattered the screen.  Because it has been so cold and snowy I haven't taken it to Best Buy yet to get it fixed so I have been letting him use Baylee's.  He is now working on apps that are geared for older kids which is amazing and hilarious at the same time.  He is working with Coop Fractions, which is exactly what it sounds like.  It is a chicken in a coop laying eggs with fractions on them and you have to answer questions.  He is getting really good at some of them.

He is also playing Bugs and Buttons, Bugs and Buttons 2 and Bugs and Buttons 3.  Each of these deal with math and numbers.  He is starting to learn how to tally and sort items.   He is also using one of her apps that is first-fifth grade sight words.  You can play word BINGO, sort contractions and all sorts of other phonics related games.  He is getting really good.  He really likes playing BINGO.  It's amazing to me how he is so smart in so many areas but I still catch him trying to chew on electrical cords that are plugged into the wall.  The disconnect between learning on an iPad and real life is depressing.  I mean it's great, REALLY great that he is able to learn as much as he does and be able to retain the knowledge, but at the same time I feel so sorry for him because he will never be able to hold down a 'real' job and show people his potential.

This weekend I joined up with JDRF of Southwest Ohio and submitted an application to be a team captain for a fundraising walk in June at Kings Island for juvenile diabetes.  We are under the name Carson's Crusaders.  I know I probably won't raise much money but just knowing that we're out there doing something makes me feel better about things.  Maybe there will be some good information there or even some families that live close to us.

I'm at the point with my mom where I am trying not to call her so much.  I think it's probably best if I just let things go for a while.  I'm not saying disown her or anything but it has been so hard trying to talk to her about my feelings etc and have her just throw them in my face and tell me I need to change my attitude and suck it up.  Yeah, no shit I have to deal with all of it whether I want to or not.  It's not like I'm saying I quit or anything.  I just wanted someone to LISTEN but all she wants to do is just throw it in my face.  I was emailing back and forth with my former boss on Saturday and telling her about how my mom just doesn't seem to get it when it comes to all the crap I am dealing with right now.  She understands more than anyone else I have ever met because of all of the things she has gone through with her daughter.  She told me when she gets back in town we will have to meet up for lunch one day.  It will be nice to just get out of the house. 

Carson's school was cancelled for today and temps are quickly dropping back into the single digits so I'm not really sure what we can get into today but whatever it is, I hope it's messy.

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