OMG

We have a little laptop the kids can use for their school. Recently, we discovered The Girl has been a bit creative in her idea of "school" usage. Several of the files she wrote and saved are absolutely AWESOME:

 Ty lets fly and soar though the sky.
               Abby lets go find us a boat so we can cruise
               though the ocean.


And:


                      one year aniversery with ty feb 18 


     dear diary today i will see how things go after the reveal of my love with ty wish me luck febuary 20th 8:24 2014     
     dear diary tonight i will hope and pray that my mom dosen't come to tykwando and that nobody finds out my secret love ty  
i also need to explain the plan to ty the plan is that we can't  date  until i am 16 and   then nobody in my family can know until i am 21 febuary20th 2014 3:50


And:

Mitchkle  i  love you  .you dazzle my eyes  .      i know you’re a nice  guy  right under  that shy  .                                                   

That  flaming red  hair that ‘s  brighter  than fire.  Id  rather  have that than be on fire.

                                When  were family remember  this  had a crush on you since i was  six

And:

The   destruction    is causing   an   eruption   .     Oh the   destruction      .   Ohoooo  the destruction !

And:

If   animals could talk my   house would  be filled with  chatter  . If animals   could  talk my house  would be  very LOUD !!!!   If animals could talk my family and I would be scared .

 

This is what she does instead of her school work.. Oy.

Sick, Post Surgery Help, and Kids

I'm about a week and a half post arm surgery and today my arm HURTS. I'm assuming it's nerves regrowing. I know from my back stuff that nerve regrowth hurts, so that would be logical. My hubby, C, has been working from home since the surgery. Usually, he he gets pretty irritated with the kids and animals while he's home and trying to work. He's been fantastic. He's taking great care of the farm (and we've had a ton of things hatching and we're trying to plan out out spring) and the kids have been trouble (mostly the girl), and I got/am nasty sick with a mild cold then the worst sinus infection ever.  He has not complained one time yet.

We have also come to find out the 85% of the fights caused recently between my mother and me have been caused by The Girl. The Girl knowingly has been manipulating mother and lying and because she didn't know any different mother dearest believed her. Well, as one might imagine, this caused problems. It won't now.

The Girl has been causing lots of problems for herself and for other people. Instead of writing her essays, she has been writing love poems to boys. Instead of correcting drafts, drawing little hearts and anatomically well..incorrect people and love odes. I'm going to post them when she's not looking. Because. WOW. Hours of her time, gone.

I apologize for tying errors, this is done 1 handed. ;)

Depression VS Anger

There's such a fine line when anger becomes depression and visa versa. When something happens (or someone does something) that angers you, maddens you so deeply - but really there isn't anything you can DO about it that could be deemed constructive - those are the things and actions that always toy with the anger/depression line.

 I had surgery Tuesday and am obviously starting to hit the apex of pain. Stitches are settling in, the tendon is doing whatever tendons do to reattach, nerves do whatever they do to heal (feel like they're on fire BTW).  *MY* plan had been to take a muscle relaxer, read a book, help the kids with their school some, lay around a LOT, let the 2 other grown-ups who live here be grown-ups and warm up one of the 450 freezer meals I already made, take the kids to their activities, clean the house, take care of the farm. Well. Hubby is trying really hard. He's been insulted and wronged by the other at his every attempt to do anything. So he doesn't even WANT to try to help (which he's just going to have to anyhow because - I only have 1 arm working) and the other *grown up* has been so blatantly sourly rude, it's not worth the breath to converse.

I understand that mental health is playing a large part in the case of the one. It always has in situations like these, but those who need the help always deny the need for it. ALWAYS. There is no point in arguing logic, there is none. They just want to argue. It's like when The Girl's meds are off. You cannot simply tell her that she should stop. She can't. Or trying to force The Boy to talk to people. People aren't meat puppets for us to dangle about. I guess that's the point of depression vs anger. I know what this person NEEDS. They are refusing to seek it and deeply hurting people on the way down.

Surgery and Recovery

I had surgery from an injury catching a guinea fowl and chicken. I tore the tendon in my left wrist and managed to get the ulnar nerve all twisted at the elbow and wrist.. So, surgery was at the elbow on the nerve, the wrist at the nerve and then on the tendon at the wrist. It's becoming obvious I have some kind of connective tissue disorder with how easily I get hurt. I can't use my arm at all right now, its a bit more challenging.  Hubby, C, is working from home to help take care of the farm, and get the kids to their activities, and make sure the house doesn't burn down while I randomly pass out from the meds. (And lets face it, we all want those to be taken.)

See, fell asleep 2 times already typing this. It's 3:30 in the afternoon.

So we're on week 6 of the new schooling plan. I've figured out a few key things:

• The Girl is brilliant, but lazy.  If there is a chance to procrastinate - she will.
• The Boy is behind  (as in, on par with his peers, not actually behind, behind) in spelling. He just needs a different approach, which we just haven't figured out yet.
• The Girl is motivated by nothing. It makes rewarding her very, very difficult. 

And on that, I'll take another nap. :)