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Apr. 21st, 2016 08:35 amCordelia’s PT today is going to mean her missing yet another standardized test. This one is likely to have more restrictions in terms of when she’s allowed to make it up because it’s actually a test that determines the school’s ranking and affects funding. The one she missed last week was just an evaluation to see if her reading lexile has changed much. They generally want kids to get higher scores in the spring than in the fall, but Cordelia was already near the top of the scale, so I don’t think any of us feel any urgency about it.
I suggested that, since Scott’s driving us for the PT appointment and since we would be getting Cordelia back to school right before lunch, the three of us should go out for lunch. I was thinking Applebee’s because it’s very near the clinic and because we can all find something edible even if not thrilling. Scott is pitching a sushi place, based largely on them having bubble tea. Looking at the online menu, they do stuff that isn’t sushi.
Cordelia wasn’t sure about going to lunch because of missing the lunchtime meeting of the Gay-Straight Alliance, and I told her it was up to her. I can see that lunch with her parents might be less attractive than lunch with her friends. She finally decided that lunch with us would be better. I suspect that the realization that, if we brought her straight back, she’d arrive at school with twenty to thirty minutes of the hour scheduled for the NWEA left to go had an impact on her decision. That’s not long enough to finish but is also too long to just sit there and not make an effort to finish.
The GSA is trying to set up a reading of I Am Jazz! by Jessica Herthel at one of the local bookstores. I don’t think they’ve gotten anybody to agree to host yet, but they do have a date in mind (which seems backwards to me, but oh, well). They’re really hoping for Nicola’s to host.
I haven’t heard anything else from either my mother or my father. Cordelia wants to make plans with her friends for the weekend, and I don’t want to keep her hanging. I also don’t want her to miss the chance to see her grandmother if that could happen. I really don’t know. Mom might just do the work on the house and head back to Louisiana without coming over to our side of the state.
My father… Well, I’m a little confused. He said he’d be coming by the end of the month, and there’s only a week left. Surely he knows his schedule by now? At least, when he arrives in state and when he leaves again, I mean. He may be trying to work out the logistics. I’m sure he doesn’t want to rent a car, but if he doesn’t he really won’t be able to visit us and his mother and siblings. Also, if he doesn’t rent a car, my cousin pretty much has to drive down to pick him up at the airport, and my cousin doesn’t have a lot of time for things like that. I’m pretty sure that seeing his mother and siblings is higher priority than seeing us (though he probably doesn’t want to admit it). His mother is 91 and fading. His brother and sister are both in very, very poor health and unable to go anywhere without an oxygen tank. My aunt has been in hospice for years now because they’re the only ones in the area who can provide the oxygen tanks.
Cordelia’s school is doing their annual plant sale. Normally I’d at least buy a gift card since they’re working with the place where I normally buy seedlings, but I’m not sure that I can really do anything at all out of doors as it gets warmer. I don’t know that I want the raised beds in front of the house full of weeds, but none of us are going to be able to keep up with them. I will miss the herbs, but it’s not like I’m going to be going out there to appreciate them or harvest them. I know people who’d be willing to help out in getting the beds set up. I just don’t really know that it’s a good use of their time.
I suggested that, since Scott’s driving us for the PT appointment and since we would be getting Cordelia back to school right before lunch, the three of us should go out for lunch. I was thinking Applebee’s because it’s very near the clinic and because we can all find something edible even if not thrilling. Scott is pitching a sushi place, based largely on them having bubble tea. Looking at the online menu, they do stuff that isn’t sushi.
Cordelia wasn’t sure about going to lunch because of missing the lunchtime meeting of the Gay-Straight Alliance, and I told her it was up to her. I can see that lunch with her parents might be less attractive than lunch with her friends. She finally decided that lunch with us would be better. I suspect that the realization that, if we brought her straight back, she’d arrive at school with twenty to thirty minutes of the hour scheduled for the NWEA left to go had an impact on her decision. That’s not long enough to finish but is also too long to just sit there and not make an effort to finish.
The GSA is trying to set up a reading of I Am Jazz! by Jessica Herthel at one of the local bookstores. I don’t think they’ve gotten anybody to agree to host yet, but they do have a date in mind (which seems backwards to me, but oh, well). They’re really hoping for Nicola’s to host.
I haven’t heard anything else from either my mother or my father. Cordelia wants to make plans with her friends for the weekend, and I don’t want to keep her hanging. I also don’t want her to miss the chance to see her grandmother if that could happen. I really don’t know. Mom might just do the work on the house and head back to Louisiana without coming over to our side of the state.
My father… Well, I’m a little confused. He said he’d be coming by the end of the month, and there’s only a week left. Surely he knows his schedule by now? At least, when he arrives in state and when he leaves again, I mean. He may be trying to work out the logistics. I’m sure he doesn’t want to rent a car, but if he doesn’t he really won’t be able to visit us and his mother and siblings. Also, if he doesn’t rent a car, my cousin pretty much has to drive down to pick him up at the airport, and my cousin doesn’t have a lot of time for things like that. I’m pretty sure that seeing his mother and siblings is higher priority than seeing us (though he probably doesn’t want to admit it). His mother is 91 and fading. His brother and sister are both in very, very poor health and unable to go anywhere without an oxygen tank. My aunt has been in hospice for years now because they’re the only ones in the area who can provide the oxygen tanks.
Cordelia’s school is doing their annual plant sale. Normally I’d at least buy a gift card since they’re working with the place where I normally buy seedlings, but I’m not sure that I can really do anything at all out of doors as it gets warmer. I don’t know that I want the raised beds in front of the house full of weeds, but none of us are going to be able to keep up with them. I will miss the herbs, but it’s not like I’m going to be going out there to appreciate them or harvest them. I know people who’d be willing to help out in getting the beds set up. I just don’t really know that it’s a good use of their time.
