Projects galore!

I absolutely hate doing homework on Sunday. But this week and this weekend with me feeling so badly I haven't been the best keeping up with things in school world. So I start going through Malcolm's classes and project etc today with him. Only to find out as I am trying to get him more organized that he had an assignment due on Thurs. Still not done. hmmm.

I may have mentioned in earlier post that Malcolm has suffered with ADHD for a long time. And last year he wanted to try it without his medicine. He did ok but we had decided he would go back on the medicines to help him concentrate. Well his body had something else planned. When he was given his medicine in July they said it would hinder concentration. YES!! Just what we needed right? I even told the nurse that was a joke to give an ADHD kid something to decrease his concentration more. I have found out exactly how much it has changed. ALOT! He says he doesn't know how to remember what class he has homework in. He never quit got the planner idea and it was never stressed like my younger kids. And I am not a big planner user either. Even though I should be. I tried looking on the new school grade website that is a joke. The old one was so much better. Plus if the teachers don't post due dates than you have no way of knowing. Some teachers are really good about it others not so much.
The only thing I can figure out is he doesn't have a locker so everything comes home with him. That means every day I will say "Malcolm what do you have for homework?" And either I write the due date down on a calender of something.

So what's the problem? With my mind not always as crisp as it should be it is hard enough to remember to check with the younger 2 boys. I have always been very fortunate with my kids and their homework. Malcolm has been the only straggler at times with doing it. That seemed to change last year when the teachers finally decided to make homework worth more. This is a child that can make 100 in geometry etc classes. In fact that is his grade right now. But if you add in the homework well another story completely. Maybe I have failed not teaching him at an earlier age to be more organized and write things down. So here I am with a Freshman in high school with the ability to have a 4.0 and have opportunities for plenty of scholarships if I can only get him to remember due dates and homework. UGH!

Solution? I have to be more organized in order to teach him.

We were also finishing up Eve's project. She has been working on it all weekend. Just trying to put finishing touches on it with the computer printer and it wanting to move so slow. Finally it is done and she is at least in her bed writing in her journal. She will be tired in the morning.

Update on my migraine. Still here. But with the phenergan and lasix starting to feel a little better. I slept alot today even though I needed to clean my kitchen etc. I left it alone. Malcolm and Cole cooked dinner and since they used the grill and made baked potatoes little cleanup and they did that. Thank you boys. I so love the fact they love to cook. Mom, Eve, Alex, and Sebastian stayed for break the fast after church. Malcolm was still having some slight problems this morning with his heart rate but of course he didn't say anything because he was trying to sleep. I so need to beat it into his head about not playing around with this. He knows the only other option is back to the hospital to be put on different meds and you have to stay in hospital for several days before they will let you go home. He is determined to be exempt from Finals this semester you can only miss 2 days. At least he wants to be at school.

I know we have many more projects to do this week and I have a tone of paperwork that I didn't do for work this weekend.So it will be a very busy week.