An interesting phone call...

I got a call today from someone at the school division ~ she's new there, and had landed on Brenden's file, and noticed he'd been referred for an assessment that was withdrawn. (This all happened quite some time ago, and i think i blogged about it ~ altho perhaps that was on an older blog?? ~ so in summary, when we heard they were only prepared to do an assessment like the one they had done previously, and we'd be no closer to a diagnosis, we said forget it). So this wonderful lady looked at his file, and wondered about all of this. She offered (only if we are still interested) to do an assessment and "possibly/hopefully" get us a diagnosis and work with us!

YES! We are interested! We had given up pursuing the diagonis (having tried the school system several times, and looking at a few other options that didn't materialize either) and were moving on ~ having decided (again) that we don't "need" a label in order to address the issues (at least not with the Hope Centre).

I'm rather surprised that someone just"landed on this file" and cared enough to take it upon herself to offer help... I think it's another God thing!

So we'll be writing up a new referral/request thing (they expire after 1yr. and that was October ~ lol). And then she'll be trying to set something up for us (and I don't think we'll have the months and months to wait ~ she knows he's waited long enough).

Wow!

Babysitting ~ i had the 5 all day (with the 6th one coming after school), and it will be a little bit of an adjustment. Janique LOVES that baby ~ lol ~ i didn't get to hold her until Janique left for clubs (she and Darwin are helping my sister with an after school Bible club program). But that'll work out ok, as she's learning to care for babies, and i'm more free to do program with Brenden. Of course Janique will still need to get her school done, but i think we'll figure out a way to make it work (lol... maybe she'll be more motivated to get her school done earlier if she has to do that before she can hold/play with the baby ~ she day dreams WAY too much while doing math). I decided this morning that i wasn't going to push for a regular school/program routine today, and just give us a bit of slack. I'm glad i did (even though i didn't get much extra work done as i hoped i would).

k, time to get supper ready...