Update - LONGGGGGG

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Hi everyone,

It's been so, so long since I've posted, (more on that in a second),

but have tried to keep up with reading messages.( Just a refresher -

I have the 5 year little girl who was identified with her hearing

loss last summer, and I was having sooooo many problems with our

itinerant teacher and school district regarding her IEP.) We did

follow everyone's advice, talked to the State dept, and had our

daughter reevaluated by someone of our choice, (and surprisingly the

results were almost exactly the same of the school's.) We did finish

up her IEP at Thanksgiving, I have to tell you, it went so well!

Why? OUr itinerant teacher could not be there, so they had another

TOD from the district there in her place. (We fell in love with this

teacher. She brought up so many good suggestions, thanked us for all

we've done for our daughter, and recognised that our daughter has a

hearing disability, and was not the behavioral problem the other TOD

claimed she was. Side note - at the first meeting it was

never " decided " that our daughter had a hearing disability, guess

those aids she wears didn't mean much...)Anyway, we got everything

taken care of at that meeting, but do you know when our TOD got

back, she called me about the meeting, and actually tried to take

credit for some of the goals and ideas I had put in the IEP????

Amazing, isn't it? She actually had the nerve to try that.

Anyway, a few days after we had finished the IEP,my daughter came up

to me and told me how she wanted her " other mom back from the white

house " . THAT stopped me in my tracks... I don't know that I've ever

mentioned it, but our dauhgter is adopted, so my first thought was

that she wanted her birthmother back. (She's never met her BTW.)

After talking to her a little more, I realized that she wanted ME

back, the mom I was a few months prior to all of this. (We had just

moved from a white house to this house right before we found out

about her loss.) I had become so obsessed with getting her IEP done

right that I'd become a cranky, old woman <smile>, and not alot of

fun to be around. So, the last couple of months have been filled

with tea parties, looking for buried treasures, flying to the moon,

and just hanging out with her. Talk about a wake up call! So, that's

where we are right now. Oh, and we're dealing with a major ear

infection, of course it's in her better hearing ear... (Tell me this

all gets easier...) We've spent the last couple of weeks at so many

doctor's offices, not to mention the ER.

So, that's kind of where we're at. Life is still a little crazy, I'm

just waiting for the day it slows down.

I just want to say thanks again to everyone who has helped us so far

on this path, it's made such a world of difference for our family.

Sue