I won’t bore you with the stories about how I was assumed to be enrolling for high school. I mean, you all knew they were coming right?

God, high school sucks. I wouldn’t want to be back in high school for anything. (Well, except maybe to be in the colorguard. That was cool.)

But since when did high school girls get so…skanky? Damn. Right when we walked in, there was some girl paying (in nickles) for her transcript. She had just graduated and was trying to register at the community college. She turned to me, sunglasses in one hand, designer bag in the other, and said, “Ugh. Seriously. Don’t wait to the last minute to get your transcript sent once you graduate. Because they totally make you prove that you graduate in order to go to college.”

Um. Thanks.

There was a huge number of girls who looked like they fell out of MTV. Cell phones, skirts, high heels. Much worse than I remember school being.

And of course, no one knew what to make me of me. The girl who looks 16 but is the mom to one biracial 16 year old and one 17 year old.

We had to meet with the assistant principals. One was a very stern looking bald man. The other was a loud guy, who you could tell bald man hated. He said, “Here’s what I tell all my new girls. Don’t get a boyfriend in the first two weeks. Because he’ll turn out to be some girl’s ex. And that girl with be CRAAAZY. And then you’ll have the crazy girl talking smack about you and then you’ll get in a fight.”

I thought that was good, practical advice.

They took Callie off to register, while I had to go meet with the special education people regarding Izzy. Izzy was really good natured (except for last  night when I vetoed her outfit. “What’s wrong with looking slutty.” she asked. “Everything” responded Callie.) She wanted to take PE and Art and it looked like they were going to be able to work that out for her. When I left, they were trying to get her to be able to take some sort of job program as well. She’ll be in special ed for all of her main subjects..math, science, English, etc.

When I was done with her, I went back to find Callie who was still waiting and looked like she was going to throw up. We finally got called into a counselor, who looked at me like she couldn’t quite figure out who I was. She asked Callie if she had thought about where she wanted to go to college and seemed kind of shocked when Callie said she wanted to be a truck driver.

Callie is going to have to repeat 10th grade, which is mostly due to her being hospitalized in the past. But the school has a program where you can make up credits and also night school, so between the two of them, we are hoping she will be able to graduate on time.

By the way, Callie’s choice for clothes for the first day of school? A t-shirt that said “I (skull and cross-bones) STUPID BOYS.

Right on Callie.

After that, I took my homeschoolers (Bug and Snowbaby) to get Build a Bear Happy Meals as a special treat.

Snowbaby and Bubba are just talking up a storm and doing so good on potty training. Snowbaby has pooped and peed in the potty since we’ve been home. God, I hope they get out of pullups and diapers. That will save so much money. The best part is that they are getting so vocal that it helps with behavior so much. Bubba was able to tell me last night that his ear hurt. Remember when he first came and he didn’t even know his name was Bubba? I mean, for a kid to walk up to me and say, “Mom. I don’t feel good. My ear hurts.” It blows me away. The other thing about Bubba that I love is that he answers “Yes” instead of “Yeah or Yup.” It sounds so formal coming from him. “Do you need to go potty? Yes.”

He’s so cute. I can’t wait for him to start school again, his teacher is going to be BLOWN away. “I see my teacher on Monday (that is the only time word he knows..he uses it to mean yesterday or tomorrow or really any day other than today.) and I tell her I’m a dude! I don’t wear no diapers no more.”

The little kids are supposed to visit with their mom for the first time in over a month tomorrow, so hopefully they don’t completely fall apart.

The house seems so quiet now with just Bug and Snowbaby here. I’m looking forward to starting school with Bug next week and getting to spend more time with just her. She’s been doing really good lately. She’s trying to earn a hermit crab.

Well, thats it for now. Happy first day of high school!

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