The State of Doodle

Since it’s been so long in between posts, I thought I’d give you a State of Doodle address.

In February we finished Upward Basketball. Duck coached again. I stood there and looked like I knew what I was doing. Duck got the bright idea one practice for he and I to play against the girls. I got schooled by a third grader. She blew right past me and made a layup — and I wish I could say I was trying to take it easy on her. Although I did get Duck really good one night — he was on one team and I the other. I picked him off my teammate and he was thoroughly shocked. It was a good pick Snuck right up on him!

While Doodle loves basketball, she still hates softball. We have forced her to play every year that she’s played (probably the last 4-5 years?). We decided not to fight that battle this year. It was heartbreaking for us. Duck’s such a great coach and I hate that there are little girls who are going to miss out on that. So I put together a women’s team for him to coach. Just kidding — a little

She’s been working hard to bring her grades up from the second quarter, but she’s still struggling with math. We’re going to take her for assessments at Sylvan. The guy we talked to on the phone said they assess the basics such that if the child didn’t get something like multiplication tables (yep, pretty sure Doodle needs help with that), they’ll help them with that.

The school we desperately want to get Doodle into (grades 4-8), well, it’ll take a miracle. If she gets in, I know it’s God’s will. I’ve been praying about it for too long. She is #1 on the waitlist for this year — meaning if anyone leaves the school in 4th grade between now and the last day of school (June 10th), she’ll be offered a position. She is #102 on the waitlist for 5th grade. They do a whole new application/lottery process for each school year. Which really kinda sucks. We want her in. It’s not that we think it’s perfect or will fix everything — but it’s a good start. Low student to teacher ratio and they don’t teach to the standardized tests like the public schools do.

If she doesn’t get into this school, I don’t know what we’ll do. I hear those of you out there who are yelling “homeschool” at your computers, but Duck and I aren’t in agreement with that solution — yet. If it happens, it’ll be God’s will because it’ll be a miracle.

She’s still playing piano and doing well with that. We’re going to look into something else for her to do that will keep her physically active — like maybe a martial arts? gymnastics? not sure yet. Next Wednesday she’s out on her intersession/spring break. She’s way overdo for a break from school. Intersession was later this year than what we’ve experienced before and frankly it’s been too long. She’ll be out for 3 weeks minus 2 snow makeup days (Mon/Tues). We’re headed to the beach one weekend for some family fun. I hope it’s nice weather because I can only handle so long in an indoor pool. I can only handle so long on the beach too — I’m so not a beach person. But Doodle loves it.

She’s also getting tall and her hairs getting long. I know I need to get a picture. I have some, but they aren’t very good. I’m still learning how to take pictures.

I think that’s it for my State of Doodle post. Go sign up for my ticket giveaway if you haven’t yet!