Yep, it's spring.

The black flies are out. A bit early this year, but they are out. Ugh. So I'll be spending most of the next month inside, thank you very much! It's too bad the best weather of the whole year is spoiled by those little beasties. If it weren't for them swarming around my head or getting stuck in my hair, I wouldn't mind them so much!

Exhausted, but with questions answered.

We finally had an appointment with the neuropsychologist for our little guy. The answer, or at least part of it, is ADHD.

Phew. I was sort of assuming it was Asperger's, there are lots of signs of that, but he doesn't meet enough enough of the criteria to really be considered that. But he is definitely ADHD. He was so patient through the whole thing, waiting while we talked to the adults, going in another room to draw, etc, while we talked more, then doing the cognitive test with the neuropsychologist (some of it literally on his head!). He was so good, and then so tired afterward! We had a quick dinner at Burger King and then made a not-so-quick stop at Walmart on the way home. (The weather has been so warm that the kids both needed new shorts!).

It will be about 6 weeks before we have the full written report, but we have the big answer now. The report will have recommendations for us and for school, and more details, I assume. But the biggest part is over. Thank heaven for that!

Little Bug stayed with my girlfriend down the road, and I think she must have been exhausted, too, because she was crying about the smallest things after we got home. I'm sure she thought we were having tons of fun while she was there, but she was forgetting she had a fun time, too!

Now we can relax a bit.

Tuesday again.

I hate not having anything to do at work. Yesterday was one of those crazy days where there was little I could do. My fourth grader was taking a math test at the usual writing time, so I couldn't help him. My second grader was absent. My sixth grader was taking a test in the computer lab. Then suddenly it was early release. Almost the same story today. I hate those bits of time where I don't have a student to work with or a place to be. And there are certain times of the day when if you can't help in the upstairs rooms, you can't help at all because all the downstairs kids are either at recess or at lunch!! Hopefully tomorrow will be better that way.

We have had one showing of the house, which is good. They ended up putting a bid on a different house, but still, we got the house all cleaned up and looking great, and we'll try harder to keep it this way now. Plus, there aren't any houses out there I'm dying to go look at right now, so it is just as well for the moment that we don't have an offer. I'm trying to be patient and sanguine about it all. Trying, I said.

I suppose I should go to bed, because I know I'll be sorry in the morning if I don't.....