So I just made it through a 6 day trip back home, which involved spending 6-8 hours on Amtrak trains with an 8 year old with severe autism and a 5 year old daughter, just me, no other help. I am proud to say I made it through the whole thing, round trip without any fast food consumption for myself. The kids did get to do a Mc D's trip with their grandparents, which is a treasured time I wouldn't take away from them. I am just getting to the point that I feel that is ALL I want for our family is the occasional splurge. I'm even noticing my children are not asking for the golden arches much anymore. When they do get it, they rarely finish it, this includes Buddy, who could have been the spokes child for McNuggets at one time. When I did snatch a bite of his, I spit it out it tasted so horrible. So, in 2 days, I'll be able to say I survived a 30 day Downsize with limited exposure of only 2 fast food incidents for myself. DH hasn't been quite as lucky, he's had some moments when he's had to give in, but they have been few, far between, and "just enough" food to get him home. He's lost 10 lbs in the process! I've lost about half that, it figures, men always do shed weight much easier than women!
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Day 28
So I just made it through a 6 day trip back home, which involved spending 6-8 hours on Amtrak trains with an 8 year old with severe autism and a 5 year old daughter, just me, no other help. I am proud to say I made it through the whole thing, round trip without any fast food consumption for myself. The kids did get to do a Mc D's trip with their grandparents, which is a treasured time I wouldn't take away from them. I am just getting to the point that I feel that is ALL I want for our family is the occasional splurge. I'm even noticing my children are not asking for the golden arches much anymore. When they do get it, they rarely finish it, this includes Buddy, who could have been the spokes child for McNuggets at one time. When I did snatch a bite of his, I spit it out it tasted so horrible. So, in 2 days, I'll be able to say I survived a 30 day Downsize with limited exposure of only 2 fast food incidents for myself. DH hasn't been quite as lucky, he's had some moments when he's had to give in, but they have been few, far between, and "just enough" food to get him home. He's lost 10 lbs in the process! I've lost about half that, it figures, men always do shed weight much easier than women!
Saturday, August 18, 2012
A venture to the farm
So, a few weeks ago I was posting about my desire to get away from commercially produced food and animal product and "get back to the farm". This should be relatively easy to do living in Southern, WI where many farms are only a 15 minute drive west of the Interstate. It took me a couple weeks of researching and getting back to people. Farmers are not nearly as internet dependent as we city folk and some have taken a full week to respond to my emails during this busy season of harvest. I wanted to make it to the farmers markets these past 2 weekends, but my illness with vertigo and migraines prevented that. Today, we woke up a little late for the farm markets and went out to breakfast. Then we make a family break away to a small family hobby farm in Franksville. They have apple orchards for fall, raspberries in season right now and a variety of other things, and a fall country store that will soon open with pumpkins, gourds and decorations. Anyhow, the adult daughter at the property took us around and showed us all of her birds, some are hobby only and some are raised for meat. They have pet ducks and chinese swans as well as I think French swans that were once only raised for Royalty! They have a whole gaggle of white Christmas Geese being raised for the holidays....the turkeys for Thanksgiving are babies right now, just able to start getting out of their hen house to look around. The egg laying hens were a blast, all different colors and personalities. Sophie loved throwing them some seed and treat. There were pet goats too, which Buddy just loved.
These are our eggs, noticed that out of two dozen there are very few white ones, most are some shade of green or brown. This is related to the breed of the chicken and what is in their diet. It makes a huge difference in thickness of their shell and in taste!
Sophie accidently cracked one on the way into the house, so we captured a pic to show how golden the yolks are and how even the egg white takes on a color from the diet, which is lots of grasses and grub, as well as left over vegetables at dinner and etc.
The chickens we purchased are going to be the true test of this. I have long begun to despise cooking chicken at home due to the dried out flavorless pieces you end up with. Even buying "Amish" chicken that you'd think was raised better hasn't necessarily been better. So, this is the least my chicken has ever traveled to make it to my table...20 miles! I bought 2 chickens, they are sold for $3 a lb. These are not your average teeny little store bought chickens...these babys have muscle and are very lean and heavy duty, one weight in at 6lb and the other at 7lb. The first thing the farmer mentioned and the next I noticed is they are not a skin and bone with some slimy breast meat in there like you are accustomed to from the store....these babys look more like small turkeys! There is no way we would eat a whole roast chicken just us of that size without having to eat it for a week...so I plan to try my hand at cutting down and deboning tomorrow and freezing it into multi meal portions. I can't wait to see how it tastes!
Then after we left that farmer, we found a roadside stand with lots of fresh from the earth finds....so fresh that the potatoes are in a bucket of dirt and you pick them out yourself and clean them at home! They look fantastic....all my produce cost me a grand total of $10.50. Between the eggs, the 2 hearty multi meal chickens and the produce, I spent all told about $50 today....and it felt so good to give it to the people who worked hard to make it instead of to a grocery store.
Then home it was to put all my other shopping from pick n save and aldi away, and I made burgers on the grill complete with smokey BBQ sauce, bleu cheese, avacado, tomatoe and lettuce.
Complete with a big salad of mixed baby greens, farmstand grape tomatoes, orange and red bell pepper strips and bleu cheese and vidalia onion dressing.
The kids loved the farm and playing with the birds and goats. Sophie is getting the idea of where food really is supposed to come from and is already denouncing fast food on her own without alot of prompting from me. Buddy is a harder sell, but we do have him down to one happy meal a weekend and that is it. That is a huge improvement from where we were, he would drive a hard bargain and "expect" one for every task he completed. We are happy to break that cycle. He is better for it, now we just hope and pray he opens his palate a bit more!
DH and I have each lost about 6 lbs during this venture, most of it appears to have come off in waist measurement sheerly as water loss and loss of "swelling" in overall tissues as the toxic salts of fast food make their way our of our bodies. After 17 days Fast Food Free, I am no longer craving taco bell as I drive by and the idea of a burger from any fast food chain now that I know about the feed lots and the fact that I'd be eating burgers from 1,000 cows at a time (This is per the CDC)...I can "just say no" and eat a snack or get home for lunch!
Sophie accidently cracked one on the way into the house, so we captured a pic to show how golden the yolks are and how even the egg white takes on a color from the diet, which is lots of grasses and grub, as well as left over vegetables at dinner and etc.
The chickens we purchased are going to be the true test of this. I have long begun to despise cooking chicken at home due to the dried out flavorless pieces you end up with. Even buying "Amish" chicken that you'd think was raised better hasn't necessarily been better. So, this is the least my chicken has ever traveled to make it to my table...20 miles! I bought 2 chickens, they are sold for $3 a lb. These are not your average teeny little store bought chickens...these babys have muscle and are very lean and heavy duty, one weight in at 6lb and the other at 7lb. The first thing the farmer mentioned and the next I noticed is they are not a skin and bone with some slimy breast meat in there like you are accustomed to from the store....these babys look more like small turkeys! There is no way we would eat a whole roast chicken just us of that size without having to eat it for a week...so I plan to try my hand at cutting down and deboning tomorrow and freezing it into multi meal portions. I can't wait to see how it tastes! |
| (2) Organic, Free Range chickens, farm direct, $3 lb...these babies are 5-7 lbs each! |
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| Farm Stand finds |
Then home it was to put all my other shopping from pick n save and aldi away, and I made burgers on the grill complete with smokey BBQ sauce, bleu cheese, avacado, tomatoe and lettuce.
Complete with a big salad of mixed baby greens, farmstand grape tomatoes, orange and red bell pepper strips and bleu cheese and vidalia onion dressing.
The kids loved the farm and playing with the birds and goats. Sophie is getting the idea of where food really is supposed to come from and is already denouncing fast food on her own without alot of prompting from me. Buddy is a harder sell, but we do have him down to one happy meal a weekend and that is it. That is a huge improvement from where we were, he would drive a hard bargain and "expect" one for every task he completed. We are happy to break that cycle. He is better for it, now we just hope and pray he opens his palate a bit more!
DH and I have each lost about 6 lbs during this venture, most of it appears to have come off in waist measurement sheerly as water loss and loss of "swelling" in overall tissues as the toxic salts of fast food make their way our of our bodies. After 17 days Fast Food Free, I am no longer craving taco bell as I drive by and the idea of a burger from any fast food chain now that I know about the feed lots and the fact that I'd be eating burgers from 1,000 cows at a time (This is per the CDC)...I can "just say no" and eat a snack or get home for lunch!
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Day 15 of "downsize me"
It's been awhile...and I bet some are wondering if my lack of blogging means I've actually fallen off the wagon....HA! Not totally, only one time did I cave in, and not for the reasons I usually would. Today is day 15 if the flub up doesn't reset my count. What was my flub up? On Monday, I actually suspected that part of the illness of sudden onset migraines I was experiencing might have been some sort of wierd sadistic "detox" of fast food and it's excessive sodium and preservatives, fat, calories and cholesterol from my system. Since recently prescribed migraine medicine was doing little to help me, and I was desperate for relief from my throbbing head...and a recent rewatch of "Supersize Me" had indicated serious withdrawal headaches being an issue with fast food addiction...I caved. I got a chili dog and fries at Dairy Queen. The hot dog was all beef and I just tried to block visions of CAFO cows (combined animal feeding operation) in my head. I shared the fries with my kids so as to spread out the misery. I waited patiently (at the train station with the kids who were entertaining themselves watching trains) to see if my misery would come to some abrubt ending. However, to my dismay it did not. It didn't get any worse though either. By the next day I had full blown vertigo and headed back to my Doctor for the 2nd time in 4 days. With prescriptions for steroids, antibiotics and anti vertigo medication, I loaded up and slept it off for a day, taking yesterday very easy, thanks to my husband putting family first and taking the time off work to care for the kids. Today I am much better and on my way back to sanity. When your world is spinning around you while you are standing still, the idea things could ever get better again seems far away.
I've spent some time during my sojourn from fast food locating farms and farm markets to begin purchasing all my meat, eggs and seasonal poultry from. I have tried my first ever purchase of organic grass fed beef and used it in spaghetti sauce. It was the best spaghetti I've ever made...a taste of the meat alone you could really taste the variety in the diet of the beef right in the meat. It was more filling, everyone ate a smaller portion, it cooked quicker and had only 1/4 the amount of fat to drain off as a traditional pound of CAFO beef would. It just LOOKED healthier. Even "Sophie" ate every bite, and she is normally difficult to get a bite of meat into.
We resumed our long missed home dairy delivery of Oberweis Dairy milk. I love this milk for a few reason, 1) the beautifully crafted glass bottles it comes in, shown left 2) the fact that these bottles are collected each week, sterilized and reused just like days of old and giving this planet a much needed break and 3) the milk itself is "cow to front door" in about 36 hours on average...the milk you buy in a store is at least a week old by the time you get it, even longer if it's organic and you don't live in an area where that is a hot selling item. 4) the milk is from cows on small family dairy farms right here in our county and other surrounding counties...so I am shopping local and that is a no brainer. Oberweis strives to be "better than organic" with standards that go beyond that of organic dairies. The cost is about that of Organic, roughly twice what your standard large commercial dairy milk goes for, but the taste is better 10 times over. The milk is pasteurized at minimum necessary temperatures, preserving most of the original nutrients and rich flavors. In fact, it's so rich that a glass of skim milk has the rich taste of the watered down 2% most grocery stores carry. The amazing fact for us is that the consumption of milk by our family has gone down by 1-2 gallons per week, since it's so much more satiating, and the kids gladly prefer it. "Sophie" asks for the "fresh from the farm" milk and "not" the plastic tasting stuff in a jug. As expensive as it sounds, it's easily off set by the lack of spending on eating out and fast food...and still ending up spending less overall. To see if you can find milk in glass bottles take a look at this site: Dairies using glass bottles
I've spent some time during my sojourn from fast food locating farms and farm markets to begin purchasing all my meat, eggs and seasonal poultry from. I have tried my first ever purchase of organic grass fed beef and used it in spaghetti sauce. It was the best spaghetti I've ever made...a taste of the meat alone you could really taste the variety in the diet of the beef right in the meat. It was more filling, everyone ate a smaller portion, it cooked quicker and had only 1/4 the amount of fat to drain off as a traditional pound of CAFO beef would. It just LOOKED healthier. Even "Sophie" ate every bite, and she is normally difficult to get a bite of meat into.We resumed our long missed home dairy delivery of Oberweis Dairy milk. I love this milk for a few reason, 1) the beautifully crafted glass bottles it comes in, shown left 2) the fact that these bottles are collected each week, sterilized and reused just like days of old and giving this planet a much needed break and 3) the milk itself is "cow to front door" in about 36 hours on average...the milk you buy in a store is at least a week old by the time you get it, even longer if it's organic and you don't live in an area where that is a hot selling item. 4) the milk is from cows on small family dairy farms right here in our county and other surrounding counties...so I am shopping local and that is a no brainer. Oberweis strives to be "better than organic" with standards that go beyond that of organic dairies. The cost is about that of Organic, roughly twice what your standard large commercial dairy milk goes for, but the taste is better 10 times over. The milk is pasteurized at minimum necessary temperatures, preserving most of the original nutrients and rich flavors. In fact, it's so rich that a glass of skim milk has the rich taste of the watered down 2% most grocery stores carry. The amazing fact for us is that the consumption of milk by our family has gone down by 1-2 gallons per week, since it's so much more satiating, and the kids gladly prefer it. "Sophie" asks for the "fresh from the farm" milk and "not" the plastic tasting stuff in a jug. As expensive as it sounds, it's easily off set by the lack of spending on eating out and fast food...and still ending up spending less overall. To see if you can find milk in glass bottles take a look at this site: Dairies using glass bottles
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
6 days fast food free
Wish me luck as I carry on...thankfully Pizza never made my forbidden list, but I recognize it's not ideal either,,,,we did get one veggie pizza though!
6 days without fast food. It sounds so innocent. However, for the typical American family with 2 adults and 2 children, McDonalds...or some other burger joint is hit at least once a week, many cases everyday. Some have their coffee habit that comes with an occasional breakfast sandwich...and a cup of motor oil with cream and sugar, hey but it only cost $1 for the biggest size they had, right? Maybe it's fries only on the way home from a long day one night....telling yourself it's only fries so it doesn't really count...and then add in those tacos with coworkers after the really long meeting at work....you see where this is going. I have done amazing. Hubby had one cave in where he consumed a McDouble, but he consumed it alone, no fries, with only water when he found himself having to give the kids something to eat when his "feed them before we leave the house "plan wasn't on the kids agenda. You can make their food, but you can't make them eat. When one has autism and explosive anger that can come on out of nowhere and leave you paralyzed with gawkers questioning your parenting ability, tisk tisking and never offering to help you...you are going to cave and get the McDonalds if it means nobody is going home with a split lip or bruises. (Yes, it's really true, we really do get bruised and beaten by an 8 year old with no impulse control over such stupid things). We were supposed to have a service dog to help us right now, but that is out of our hands. I truly believe that God is watching out and we will get restitution financially that allows us some way to help our son. SO, needless to say, I made it 6 days and tonight necessity forced meeting in the middle....we have my Dad here helping with the kids right now...and after a trip to the beach, and DH getting home really late from work tonight, we got $10 take out pizzas from pizza hut.
Wish me luck on day 7!
Friday, August 3, 2012
Down Size Me
Have you seen the now practically a classic "Super Size Me?" Were you ever a fan of Morgan Spurlocks show 30 days? I sure loved it. In fact, since I had to watch and discuss Food Inc yesterday in my nutrition class...I'm on the "edge of glory" to quote Stephani Germanotta aka "Lady GaGa" when it comes to food. I am ready to embark on a new food adventure. I'm fed up of our fast food nation. I'm sick and tired of being "sick and tired." So is my husband.
So, assuming you've seen supersize me, which people criticized as overkill, Morgan Spurlock embarks with medical supervision on an adventure to live on strictly the golden arches food for 30 days. He was required to eat 3 meals a day, and eat from the entire menu, and only supersize if asked to do so. Of course, the response to the movie by McDonalds has been strong. In the years that have passed since, they have reduced sodium in their chicken nuggets, included apples in all happy meals and kicked off a campaign of ads encouraging children to be active. They recently introduced an under 400 cal menu. However, the sad reality is I don't think Morgans documentary was at all over the top. I have spent the last 4 years of my life getting my Bachelors Degree, no small feat for a 37 year old Mom of two, one of whom has serious special needs. I've seen the size of todays youth. I'm no small potatoes myself at slightly over 230, but I pale in comparison to the size of some of the young people I'm in school with. If they continue on this path to self destruction, they won't ever see mid life. I do NOT want my children to become this in 10-15 years. However, if we do not change, they will. Buddy is already well addicted to Mc D's chicken nuggets and fries, and begs for them every day. For the record he does not get them every day, but we've had our fair share of weekends managing behaviors where we've given in, or DH was trying to get him out of my hair so I could study and he got given in to more than once in a weekend. I loath to admit he probably manages to get it out of us twice a week on average. That is too much and we are well aware. It's even harder in this month where there is no summer school to keep him on routine, and sometimes we are just dying to break the monotony, and that is the easiest solution. We all know though that easiest doesn't mean best. Between a full time school load, severe behavioral problems with our child, my hubby managing demands of work and the constant running to medical appointments, child care pick up, babysitter swaps, and sometimes back to campus again in the same day for me, we've become a family that "can't" cook, "can't" take charge of our eating and "can't" do anything about it. The rising cost of groceries has easily victimized us with many others and made us begin to fall into the deceptive trap that it was actually cheaper to eat crappy junky fast food. What a crock of lies and deception. In my heart of hearts it's never been right or satisfying. It's been survival. That is all it's been.
Well, the best thing happened when my arrangement of my classes caused me to push off this one "easy" nutrition class to the bitter end. It's a required class for the Applied Health Science major and for the Exercise Science certificate. It's called "Sport and Fitness Nutrition", but my awesome teacher has made it applicable to life as a whole. Taking it over a 4 week summer course is time consuming and tough, but I have a solid A. The point though is that this is a fantastic way to end what has progressively been a more and more unhealthy experience getting my degree. I've put on 20-30 lbs during my 4 years, I can't remember exactly what I was at when I started my degree, so it's either 20 or 30, but that is alot...and I am constantly on my feet and never idle for a minute. I have exercised on and off during this time, battled with foot problems, taken lots of stairs, walked miles and miles...yet still put this weight on. That means I really only have one thing to blame. Yep, you guessed it...."The American Diet". Which has come to consist of fast food from whatever joint you get it at, not enough water consumption, too little fiber and too much sodium and sugar and the wrong kind of fat. The media pressure is huge, the lifestyle pressure is huge, the time factor is huge, but alot of it is just plain choice. Well, today, I am choosing to embark on my own "30 days". Mine is going to be "Downsize me" except, it has little do with how much weight I lose during the 30 days. Today is day two of that 30 and I am on fire. During my 30 days...I will not eat any *fast food*. Now, that doesn't mean I won't eat out....although I will try like mad to cut it down to as little as possible. So, I must define what type of food qualifies as "fast food". By fast food, I mean highly processed, mainly beef and "something that resembles chicken" serving establishments where food is mass prepared from massive feed lot raised beef and chicken and french fries and onion rings and endless supplies of soda abound. If it has a drive through, it's best regarded as fast food. Since the salads at these establishments don't pass muster with most nutritionists those are out too. In fact, my goal is to not even set foot in one for 30 days. Downsize me in this sense refers to portion sizes, bad fat content, sugar content and other excesses in my diet. I am willing to bet though that I do "downsize" a bit in the process.
My exceptions:
For the purpose of this 30 day experiment, these establishments will be legal:
Jimmy Johns, Subway and Cousins subs for fresh prepared items only.
Panera Bread (no bakery), Noodles and Company and Q Doba/Chipotle. Most sit down restaurants won't count against me, but honestly I don't have time or babysitters to go to those anyway.
Coffee: Real brewed coffee and Americano drinks (espresso and hot water) are acceptable. Espresso drinks that amount to candy bars in a cup are NOT.
Banned:
Culvers, Taco Bell, McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, White Castles and all manner of similar restaurants.
Dessert in a cup drinks from coffee stands, sugar containing sodas and convenience bakery. (Home baked is OK!)
I told my husband my plan, and he who has recently given up soda and is trying to give up alot of others things too and is beginning to finally get mad about where his health has gone with years of fast food habits...he said "What's my prize if I beat you double or nothing?" I promptly said "Your prize is the weight you will lose and the increase in your energy and quality of life".
So, if you want to join me, I encourage you!
Stay tuned for my next blog which will be: "Back to the farm....exploring the path back to where my food comes from and controlling it"
Well, the best thing happened when my arrangement of my classes caused me to push off this one "easy" nutrition class to the bitter end. It's a required class for the Applied Health Science major and for the Exercise Science certificate. It's called "Sport and Fitness Nutrition", but my awesome teacher has made it applicable to life as a whole. Taking it over a 4 week summer course is time consuming and tough, but I have a solid A. The point though is that this is a fantastic way to end what has progressively been a more and more unhealthy experience getting my degree. I've put on 20-30 lbs during my 4 years, I can't remember exactly what I was at when I started my degree, so it's either 20 or 30, but that is alot...and I am constantly on my feet and never idle for a minute. I have exercised on and off during this time, battled with foot problems, taken lots of stairs, walked miles and miles...yet still put this weight on. That means I really only have one thing to blame. Yep, you guessed it...."The American Diet". Which has come to consist of fast food from whatever joint you get it at, not enough water consumption, too little fiber and too much sodium and sugar and the wrong kind of fat. The media pressure is huge, the lifestyle pressure is huge, the time factor is huge, but alot of it is just plain choice. Well, today, I am choosing to embark on my own "30 days". Mine is going to be "Downsize me" except, it has little do with how much weight I lose during the 30 days. Today is day two of that 30 and I am on fire. During my 30 days...I will not eat any *fast food*. Now, that doesn't mean I won't eat out....although I will try like mad to cut it down to as little as possible. So, I must define what type of food qualifies as "fast food". By fast food, I mean highly processed, mainly beef and "something that resembles chicken" serving establishments where food is mass prepared from massive feed lot raised beef and chicken and french fries and onion rings and endless supplies of soda abound. If it has a drive through, it's best regarded as fast food. Since the salads at these establishments don't pass muster with most nutritionists those are out too. In fact, my goal is to not even set foot in one for 30 days. Downsize me in this sense refers to portion sizes, bad fat content, sugar content and other excesses in my diet. I am willing to bet though that I do "downsize" a bit in the process.
My exceptions:
For the purpose of this 30 day experiment, these establishments will be legal:
Jimmy Johns, Subway and Cousins subs for fresh prepared items only.
Panera Bread (no bakery), Noodles and Company and Q Doba/Chipotle. Most sit down restaurants won't count against me, but honestly I don't have time or babysitters to go to those anyway.
Coffee: Real brewed coffee and Americano drinks (espresso and hot water) are acceptable. Espresso drinks that amount to candy bars in a cup are NOT.
Banned:
Culvers, Taco Bell, McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, White Castles and all manner of similar restaurants.
Dessert in a cup drinks from coffee stands, sugar containing sodas and convenience bakery. (Home baked is OK!)
I told my husband my plan, and he who has recently given up soda and is trying to give up alot of others things too and is beginning to finally get mad about where his health has gone with years of fast food habits...he said "What's my prize if I beat you double or nothing?" I promptly said "Your prize is the weight you will lose and the increase in your energy and quality of life".
So, if you want to join me, I encourage you!
Stay tuned for my next blog which will be: "Back to the farm....exploring the path back to where my food comes from and controlling it"
A little front porch....
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The Two Week Wait
No, I am not talking about THAT two week wait....Got your attention didn't I though? Now I'm sure a few of you are confused, but thats OK. Those that jumped to conclusions got the joke. If you don't get it, then you didn't jump to conclusions! Hee Hee. Today "Sophie" underwent much testing with a school psychologist to determine her grade placement for school next month. Wow, summer went faster than I thought..."next month", I can really say it that way now. My baby will be 6 years old "next month". So, all the testing went well today. The evaluator seemed maybe a tad surprised and just how efficiently it went down and how few breaks were needed. I was not surprised though. "Sophie" loves to learn and show what she has learned through activities. She came out of the testing saying she knew "most" of the material. I believe her, she has no reason to lie. I have to wait until the data is officially scored to truly know, but when I was asked to fill in some questions, I did happen to peak back and see some things the evaluator had written down already. I did see notations circled that indicated child is functioning "at least 2 grade levels above current age based grade level". This doesn't surprise me at all simply due to her reading ability. Even if that is how the results come back when broken down, 1st grade is the highest I would allow her to do, I want her to be challenged, not overwhelmed and stressed out! I suspect even in first grade she will still need to go to advance reading. Another "slip" by the evaluator came when she asked me what grade Buddy was going in to. I told her third, and she said "Ok, she he's going to be 2 grades above her". I'm sure that wasn't intended to be interpreted, but of course, adoring Mom that I am, this is what I am thinking. I am sure they want to consider whether or not they are upsetting the balance of the birth order by advancing a student, but since there are plenty of years between Buddy and Sophie, there is no need to worry about that.
I'll reveal what I know at the end of the "two week wait"... :)
I'll reveal what I know at the end of the "two week wait"... :)
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