Please hold for Amanda

Today I got a call from Amanda. Yes, that is correct, Amanda. She has been learning to speak on the phone and today she had something very important to tell me. After months of stress and effort, she has finished with the Texas state educational assessment test, alternative version.

Tina said she was literally dancing in the car. This test has caused Amanda a great deal of self imposed stress. She knows how important it is for the mainstream students to pass it and she just knew it was equally important for her. She also knows she has a hard time counting to ten because she doesn't say the number seven. The days of the week are difficult because she doesn't acknowledge the existence of thursday. But now the test is over and she is one happy kid.

It is my hope that her good attitude about this continues for the rest of the school year. Sadly, we are looking at school being finished in just seven weeks.

The one thing I am wanting this summer is near drought conditions. Last summer was so wet we hardly had a chance to enjoy the pool. I would prefer to be a near amphibian this year.