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Old October 8th, 2003, 04:09 PM
Wendy
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Default No weight loss this week.

Jayjay wrote:

I thought this sig was so sweet. I really miss my four year old
daughter. Sadly, she's nearly 13 and has turned into the Ice Princess
from Hell. She tells me she hates me almost daily. (Because I get her to
school late most days. Her private school that I can't afford and that
has no busing and is in another town and makes me not be able to take
clients all afternoon because I have to stop in the middle to go get
her. That school.) My boys still love me, though.


I've got to ask - why the priivate school then?


The biggest reason is that she needed to skip a grade and the school we
sent her to is self-paced so she could work through 6th, 7th, and 8th
grade in two years. She's in her second year there. It's doing just what
we hoped it would do academically, but it puts her with children who have
access to privileges we can't normally afford and the snotty element has
gone up several points beyond what it normally would have at this age.

I think she's pretty damn privileged, myself. For example, on this
summer's home improvement we added a master bathroom to the house: but
it's attached to HER bedroom, not ours. It just worked out that her
bedroom was the best one to convert into a suite and we don't have a big
urge to displace her. (She gets displaced for guests, though.) She also
gets regular vacations to Florida and shopping trips to New York City and
various other perks that I don't recall falling my way as a child. And
then there's the dojo membership so she can study karate and the piano
lessons and the gym membership... and I'm home after school so she doesn't
have to trundle off to camps and after-school activities if she doesn't
want to.

This would all work better if I were able to build my business more, but I
can't get the time in between all my exercising and all my child-care
duties to get much client work done! (I need to go back on EC so I can
get the energy boost to work from 9 pm to midnight again.)

-- Wendy