WOW ...Thanks!

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THat was some great info and support! THe only reason tht I am

looking for a curriculum is to help me understand how to organize

Molly's (sorry...LOL...not Maggie....Maggie is the hand full of 3

year old that uses me as a jungle gym while I am trying to

homeschool Molly), schoolwork. I think that it would be difficult

to find a curriculum for Molly specifically because she tends to

work at different levels in different areas....eg: she reads

fluently...there is not a word that she cannot figure out if left to

her own resources....but her handwriting is still that of a 1st

grader....she adds and subtracts double digits....but she doesn't

know how to count money....tell time in a more advanced manner. One

thing her educational consultant said is not to stress about things

like that....her comment was " how many adults do you know that don't

know how to tell time or count money? " I was told by her that Molly

is such a motivated and curious/creative thinker that she has the

ability to learn easily by soaking up her environment and

experiencing things....that she likes to learn on her own

terms....at her own pace....with her own sense of creativity. She

told me not to stand in her way and try to teach her " My way " of

learning. If I try to, she gets bored....yawns incessantly and

whines a lot....full of resistance. If I try to tell her how to

write her story for instance....her response is to quickly shut me

up, telling me.... " MOM!.....this is my story and I am going to write

it my way!!!! " And she does...and for a 5 year old....she does it

well.

Molly is a very socially adept child....despite the fact that she

has had to be somewhat secluded. Because she get pnuemonia every

time she is exposed to a snot nosed child....we have not been

allowed to take her into enclosed environments where there are a lot

of children. Unfortunately, we even had to stop going to church

because she got pnuemonia every time she went into the day care. We

are always searching for ways to get her into social environments

that are outside....we take her to the kids park....she plays

soccer....she shows horses with other kids....she treasures her

friends and I am always looking for a way to find more friends for

her....but so much revolves around indoor activities and it is

difficult. Molly does not seem to suffer much from her sometimes

seclusive lifestyle....her pediactric immunologist told us not to

worry because she has a little sister and they are eachothers best

friends. On the other hand....her 3 year old sister, Maggie *who

also has CVID) is developing some concerning behaviors. She is

becoming shy....won't stray from me to play with other kids...goes

off to play by herself at the park....she is content...she is just

turning into more of a loaner. She will usually let down her guard

after a period of time and start playing. I started her in

Preschool in January in hopes of having more time to homeschool

molly without Maggie's constant interuptions....but I had to pull

her out after two days at the recommendation of the immuno because

she too, got pnuemonia....this was pre-diagnosis and, as it turns

out....her CVID appears to be worse than Molly's in testing.

So it is a challenge. I wish that someone could come in and wave a

magic wand so that my kids could be kids....but I also feel like the

luckiest mom on earth that I get to spend this very precious time

molding my children into who they are to become.!

Thanks! Terri