This is Chris Edwards, guest-blogger for a day, filling in for an exhausted and headachy Jonelle. This is about five days in a row for Jonelle dealing with storm induced headaches. These migraines are really taking their toll on Jonelle, wearing her down and becoming quite discouraging. So, keep her in your prayers to give her some relief, support, and encouragement.
Anyway, for today, we are focussing our prayers on Jackson's school and friends for this coming year. He is going into the 3rd grade at the Open Classroom. We are very excited for him to be in Denise Mavor's class. She used to babysit Jonelle in the not too distant past, and is the aunt of one of Jonelle's best friends. She is one of the reasons we wanted Jackson to go to the OC in the first place. Jackson knows almost all of the kids in his class, and, for the most part, gets along well with them. We had a few issues last year and the year before with Jackson getting bullied (by one of the kids that's going to be in his class this year) or getting rough with other kids and not being able to ask for help from the teachers or parents. We know some of this is "boys being boys", but some of it is also the fact that he was the youngest in his class and Jackson's personality. He does tend to be a follower sometimes and doesn't always see getting hurt by others as a bad thing. He's also been diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and has been going to therapy sessions for a couple months now, which has provided him with some good strategies to help cope with things.
Hopefully, with him being in Denise's class, with familiar friends that are more his age, and with the tools he has learned in his counseling sessions, he will have a very successful year.
Food today (sorry, no pictures or 1000 words) -
Because of the mad scramble of getting two kids ready for camp and out the door, I ate a deconstructed fruit salad for breakfast. For those of you who don't know fancy chef language, that means I ate a peach and a banana. I topped of this meal with some water.
Snack time was a handful of almonds, while chasing Tate around the Children's Museum. Oh, and some water.
Lunch with Tate, although not quite as yummy looking as the bagel and cream cheese Tate had, was a homemade trail mix of raisins, dried cranberries, and almonds, followed by some cherry tomatoes and a generous helping of water.
Afternoon snack consisted of sunflower seeds and some water that I spruced up with some homemade ice.
For dinner, I made "Mrs. Jones' Brown Rice Dinner." It was a latin inspired concoction of rice, veggies, beans, and fresh salsa topped with avocado. We (Jonelle's idea) wrapped this up in some Daniel's Fast approved corn tortillas and ate them like weird tacos. In all honesty, it was a little on the ho-hum side of flavor, but was at least substantial. I had to pass on water, since we ran out of the water in our fridge, and the water snob in me can't possibly deal with tap.
I tried to make a "cookie" for dessert with oats, banana, applesauce and raisins, but one of those was enough for all of us.
And, so ends day 9. Here's to y'all for your love, support and prayers.
I'm out.
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