Not really any particular reason. Summer busy-ness I guess. All is ok. I don't think I can ever say great, right? We are just kind of bumping along. Caroline is taking summer school Geometry which isn't going that well. She loves her new teacher, but the class is only three weeks long for one semester of Geometry, and it is too fast for her. She might be retaking it again in the fall.
I think we are 99.9% sure we are homeschooling next year, using the district's online high school. She was so stressed out last year, and so were we. Wasn't worth it. And she had seriously the best IEP team in the country I would vouch. But a big public high school wasn't the right fit, and the small self-contained special ed classroom would not have been the right fit either as the kids were pretty intellectually challenged. She is entirely relieved. I worry about her taking the SATs next year, but we will be enlisting a tutor beginning in August.
Medically she started running a little "high," which looks like obsessiveness for her, so she is taking a bit more lithium. But she is also going to be going on thyroid medication as she is clinically low (probably caused by the lithium,) which accounts for the low energy and sleepiness she has experienced all year.
She has played some summer lacrosse, but not much at all compared to usual. Her knee is nearly 100% better following surgery. There is a fall league she might join up in Denver. I know she is longing to really scrimmage.
I hope your summer is going ok. Summer can be hard, or really good, it would seem. Caroline often does best in the summer. Maybe it is the lack of school stress, or the sunny days. I too do better with lots of sun. That is one of the reasons we jumped at the chance to move to Colorado. Despite the cold, it is sunny most of the time.
Talk to you soon!
