Andy and Sarah have been back at school for over a week now, but Amanda is still home with me. I actually don't mind having her around, she is very easy. She is amazingly well-behaved when we go anywhere, I think she behaves better in public than she does when she's at home. Ask anybody, that's backwards.
When we got here, actually months before we got here, I searched the internet thoroughly for a Spanish preschool like the one she attended in Texas. No luck. The only place I did find is a school that is opening up this year and is hoping to get at least three students to start a class. That is night and day from where we were, but I'll take what I can get as long as they are speaking Spanish. They have a school that is a few years old in Colorado Springs and are trying to open a preschool here this fall. The are supposed to start the first week in September, but I got a call from the director on Friday telling me that the third kid, which makes the class possible, may not be coming and therefore there may not be a class. I'll find out for sure on Friday, but in the meantime I decided to call a few other places.
I'm lazy, haven't I told you that about a million times? So yesterday I called two places, both recommended by my neighbors, both of which started school last week. One has openings, and the other doesn't really have openings but is willing to put her in a higher class since they kind of teach to each kid. Sounds great, except for my three year old still isn't even close to knowing her alphabet and can only count to three and I can only understand about half of what's she saying so imagine how it will be for people that aren't around her that much. Probably not ready to be with four year olds getting prepped for kindergarten. Otherwise she's a genius, so I'm not worried. She'll be fine by the time she gets to kindergarten.
Anyway, Charlie wants me to go visit the schools. A brilliant idea, except that sounds like a lot of work and talking and people making me ask questions and it gives me tired head. A lot of things give me tired head lately, moving really sucks. I know that if I visit just these two places and figure out which one I like better, that if I find out the Spanish thing is a no-go, that I can have Amanda in school as early as next week. That would be pretty nice, there's a lot of things I'd like to do around here that I don't do because she's here. But I cannot motivate myself to go. Plus, Amanda doesn't really want to go to school. It doesn't surprise me, Sarah was the same way. Not that that would at all change my mind - she needs to be around kids her own age and spend some time in a classroom setting. It will be good for both of us.
I'll do it tomorrow, really. I can only take the kid to Target so many times before she starts to revolt and then I won't think she's so wonderful after all.
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