My Son is Smarter Than I Think He Is

This morning I got up and got my son ready for school and me for another day of mother duty. After dropping him off at school (he was late by 5 mins.), I was on my way to begin my day. I started of by washing clothes, then I helped my grandmother out with some official business, once that was done I was on my way home. Here at home I am cleaning my house to get ready for inspection next week. I hate when they do inspections, because they always be looking for the smallest thing to be wrong and write you up for it. I try my best to pass inspection and I do all the time. I just hate having my housekeeping been judged by my landlord and others. I would love to go see how they keep their house clean with children, working and other things that take up your time. But I don't want to talk about that, I want to talk about something my son said and did at school the other day. I was talking to mom and grandmother about my son and what he told his speech teacher on Wednesday and how it made me laugh, because it was so funny. He told his teacher that his dad was a bad man, because he cheated on me and had two other kids and that he married another woman. When he told me that all I could do was laugh, because i didn't know my son was paying that much attention to the adults in his life, but he is and he understands what is going on in his life. He might got got some of the details wrong, but he got majority right. His father did have two more kids, but by two different women. So his father has three baby moms, instead of one. And he didn't marry either one of the women. And yes he did cheat on me, because the second child which is a boy was born five months after my son. I ask my son does he still love his father even though he is a bad man and he said yes, I still love him. My eight year old son proved to me that day. that he knows more than I think he does and that he is paying attention to what I say and do about his life and mine.

A Regular Old Thursday

There is nothing much going on today, but me paying a couple of bills and taking my son to speech therapy at CDS. I take him to speech every Thursday after school to help with his speech impairment that he was diagnosis with when he was three years old. He's been going to speech therapy for the last six years and recieves speech also at school twice a week. He's come along with his speech since he first started going to CDS in 2003. I'll get into what his speech impairment in another blog, for now I must go.

Education Is Important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today, President Obama gave a speech to to the school children of this nation and many parents chose not to let their children see the speech or schools chose not to show it to their students. I was very disappointed to find out that my son's school here in Greenville, SC chose not to air the speech during school, but taped it and parents had the chose to watch it with their children during PTA tonight at the school. I chose to show my son the speech online when he came home from school, because I thought the message of the speech was one that was positive and inspiring to our youth today. I talked to my son about the speech and asked if he understood any of it and he did, the other parts I had to explain it a little more to him. But he understood that if you fail a test that it doesn't mean that you are stupid, but that you have to study a little harder to get that good grade. That message alone is good one that kids should hear. I also watched "Get Schooled" on BET, with my son to show him that a good education can open doors to career paths you never dreamed of before. I believed that the speech and the show are good tools to help motivate our youth to be better than before and to strive for a better education that can help them achieve their dreams.

On the Hunt for a Job

Today I had an appointment at our local OneStop office with my caseworker at 9:30 a.m. this morning and I can say that I might not be eligible to go through their program, because I have been out of work for the last six years. No it's not because I am lazy or haven't been looking, because I have. It's because I am limited in where I can work and the time I can work. See I don't have a car and the local bus dosen't run near my apartment complex like it use to, so I have to depend on my brothers to run around before they go to work or when then are off or on the weekends. I don't want to be a bother to them, because they already do so much for me. Then there is the time I can and can not work. I want to work in the mornings, because my son is school and I have that time free to work. I just need to be able to get off by 2 p.m., so that I can be home for my son when he gets out of school at 2:30, becasue i don't really have anyone to watch my son while I work. Then there is the matter that I need to be off every Thursday, so that I can take my son to speech therapy. All these issues seems to be problems and obstacles for me gettng a job. So I want someone to tell me what I am suppose to do.

School Days.

It's been almost two weeks, since I last posted a blog and I am sorry for that. I could say that I have been busy, but I want make that excuse. It's just that I am new to this blogging and when I am about to blog something comes up or time gets way from me. But anyway, here is my second blog and I hope that you like it.

Well it makes two weeks into the new school year for my son and so far everything is going smoothly. This week and for the next couple weeks the school will be participating in taking the standardize Map Test that will focus on Math and Reading skills of second graders thru fifth graders. I don't really like these test, but I guess it's necessary for them to take these test. Anyway my son's school has already started their fundraiser this year. And the fundraiser only last two weeks. I have my mom helping me sell it and her job and at church. Also I got a letter from his school telling me that a child at the school has Hepatitis A and that I might need to take him to the doctor to get a vaccine shot. So, I guess I will take him this Friday after he gets out of school.