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At the close of a week that seemed fought with the difficulties of the the dramas of the bus situation and school IEP compliance difficulties with Boy #1, and the struggles of attempting to get Boy #2 to focus on his homeschool work instead of drifting off into drawing and music applications, there have been a couple of positive things happen this week. They are very significantly positive things for me.

1. Bonus Boy’s mother and I are finally communicating.
2. My sister and I are communicating again after nearly two years of silence.

The week ended much better, really, than it started. I have to remind myself of that fact. Living in a testosterone ladened household tends to make it very difficult to see the trees for the forest at times. Any who. I’ll probably get grief for the song I’m about to leave you with but hey, it’s a feel good song and it’s a positive one.

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“[...]it is our strong recommendation that you make arrangements for your son to be picked up from school today instead of riding the bus home. It has been brought to our attention that further threats to his person have been made and until we have arrested those who forced their way onto the bus yesterday and attacked him, which should be later this afternoon, we recommend he not ride the school bus.”

That was from the phone call I received from Campus Police about an hour or so ago concerning the drama that occurred yesterday with Boy #1. I assume the “we” she was referring to was County Police/Deputies in cooperation with Campus Police. Yeap. Nothing like teen drama on a bus that serves quite the varied social populous. Seems that one of the kids who plays him as a fair weather friend played off some of his own remarks about one of these thugs little brothers and passed them off as Boy #1’s remarks. Impossible as Boy #1 no longer has anything to do with this kid since he gave him candy towards the end of the last school year and it turned out to be meth (took a $25 drug test to figure it out) and we spent several hours helping him go through the tweaking out phase of a first time user. Oh yes, as if parents don’t have enough to worry about, 12-14 year olds are actually giving meth away, telling other students that it’s candy because that’s the new trend, flavoring the crap so it tastes like candy. F*ckers. So the boy has had it out for Boy #1 since he and I reported it to the proper officials at the school and the police department.

Two neighborhood drop-out thugs from up the street forced their way onto the school bus yesterday afternoon and proceeded to pound the crud out of Boy #1. Had this happened out on the street I would have understood if he fought to defend himself. However, this was on the school bus and I’ve got to say that as sick as it might sound to others, I’m proud of him for keeping his hands to himself and not fighting back. I’m so very proud that he was able to maintain that much control of himself. Why should I be? Because he is normally very impulsive due to the bipolar disorder and being a teenager, he acts without thinking and in the past that has gotten him written up and suspended from the bus more times than I care to remember.

He maintained control. That means his meds are working. Belittle me if you wish but I’m proud of him. The result is that this time, the punks that started this are going to be charged with assault and battery and my son isn’t getting yet another mark on his school record.

Yesterday was the first day of school for our household. Boy #2 and Baby Boy started their homeschool year and Boy #1 and Bonus Boy started their Public School year.

Already, OpenOffice.org is getting a workout. With the content controls enabled in IE7, Boy #2 cannot cheat when he uses OO.o for his various writing assignments. Yesterday he gave it a work out typing up definitions and sentences for his spelling words. This morning before 07:00 Baby Boy was at the desk and typing up his Creative Writing assignment for the day. He likes to find a coloring page and then write a story to go with it. He hates being corrected by adults but doesn’t mind the red squiggly line under misspelled words in a word processing application.

Boy #1 took to school his usual letter typed up by me for his teachers explaining his Other Health Impaired IEP seeing as the Special Services Department never gets the IEP’s to the schools prior to the start of the new school year. He seemed to really like all of his teachers and his homeroom teacher is male this year. We have a suspicion that will be a good thing as Greg responds much better to male authority figures than female authority figures.

Joseph called Bonus Boy’s mother last night and it would seem he also had an excellent first day. I wish I had pictures to share but Boy #1 has taken all of the batteries out of everything including my camera, yet again. Never fear. I shall be hunting their room for batteries out of RC cars later today (what goes around comes around) and will at least be able to take pictures of the two homeschoolers at work.

Yesterday evening was an amazingly early and quiet evening. We had all, except Baby Boy who was still sleeping, and Bonus Boy who had gone to his mother’s on Sunday, woke up at 04:00 so that goodbyes good be said and given to my mother as Joseph and I had to make the road trip with her to the Atlanta Airport and be there by 06:30. All of the children were asleep by 19:45 last night. Alas, Joseph and I were also so tired that we were both sound alseep before 22:00.

Here’s to the hope of another good day and beginning of what will hopefully be a fantastic school year!

*As a note. I apologize for leaving most of you on the blogroll neglected over the past couple of weeks. While my mom was here visiting it was just impossible to do much blog reading. By the end of the week I hope to get caught up with all of you as soon as I’ve finished upgrading to KDE 4. I’ve missed you all!