rough week

Work was really bad this week. It was busy and stressful and I am in a full blown daily diarrhea place once again. I need to start looking for another job. I hate giving up the six plus weeks of vacation every year - but it's sort of twisted to keep a job that is making you sick only because of how much time you can take off from that job.

Steven really wants to repeat eighth grade. He was on the honor roll all year, and passed all his classes, but his birthday is in the late fall, so he is a year younger than most of his classmates. He found out that he is younger than all but two of the seventh graders on the wrestling team, and most of his friends are all in the seventh grade (which makes sense, because they are all his age). Dan and I agreed that he could stay back if he really wanted to.

But the school district does not want this at all. His grades were fine, and he is a star athlete in two sports. And he teachers all say he is mature for an eighth grader, even though he is a year or two younger than most of the other kids in that grade. So they are pretty much saying we either have to home school him (which defeats the purpose of him getting to be with his friends) or send him on to the high school.

This is also a cause for stress.

Bill is getting ready to go to school. I ordered some extra long sheets and bedding for him, as the dorm mattresses are longer than usual, and I might order a carpet for him. We need to order his laptop, but we will probably do that in Muncie when we move him into his dorm. I just made the reservations for Dan and I to stay in Muncie for two nights next month. One day will be for moving him into his dorm room and the second day will be for picking up his text books and ordering his laptop and odds & ends like that. Steven will be staying with a friend for a couple of days and Dan and I are looking forward to a couple of nights alone in a hotel room, and eating out by ourselves for at least a couple of meals.

We will be going back to Muncie to camp out at a state park on a lake for Labor Day weekend. That's when we can help Bill out additionally if he should happen to need anything else.