So much has been rolling around in my head and so many changes have been made in our home environment.  Some good and some not so good.  (Don't worry, it will all work out.) haha

Learning to cope with a gifted ADHDer is like riding a roller coaster.  I gotta say I never had the stomach for it.   You know the one that got off and ran for the nearest trashcan.. Well that wasn't me.. I was the one they had to pick up and carry out because I passed out during the first dip.  I think the people around me were more scared than me.  I don't remember it.  lol  The gifted ADHDer is bored yet doesn't want to sit to do anything about it.  How frustrating he can be.  Sigh.  He finishes his work before I can get something for him to do.  So we started a 30 minute free reading period.  If he catches up with me or finishes everything before I'm ready to move on.. then I say start your reading.  He picks the book and off he goes... asking every 10 minutes or so if his time is up.  Even being prepared with things printed and an agenda worked out... I still feel unprepared.  His boredom makes me think I am not pushing enough or giving him enough work but at the same time he doesn't really want and can get frustrated with more.  Its a mixed world.  I just keep hoping to find something to challenge him.  If he were in school, then he would be in 3rd.  He is breezing through the 3-4th grade work like nothing.  I told DH today that I might have to pull out a few 5th grade sheets and sneak them in to see how he handles them.  :)

For quite some time, I've been researching and obsessing over Montessori.  I am slowly creating some of my own materials for my daughters.  I still have a little time to work with them since they are only 31 months and 20 months old.   We have started doing a few simple lessons.. Like working with the Lacing Beads.  I want to make the dressing frames and work more on practical life skills.  She does some simple activities like sweeping and wiping down the table.  We tried the rice pouring and it was a bit messy.  We will put that on hold for a bit because my youngest doesn't understand what is going on and that tends to result in objects flying.  Rice is a hard thing to find when its been spread out that much!  We also do a matching "game" with color cards (from paint stores) that she likes.  She is pretty good at grouping colors together.  Matter of fact, earlier today she stole my bag of M&M's and arranged them into a single line according to color.  LOL.  Bad thing was she threw them away when she was done.  :(

The public school system we are zoned for to keep tabs on us (playing evil music) send out letters to all homeschoolers about a meeting for parents of homeschoolers with a learning disability.  As of right now, the school is not aware of his ADHD because I had him privately diagnosed AFTER we left the school system.  They said he was bored and probably gifted.. LOL  Well I think they are half right.  They just missed the other half.  So I debated should I go to the meeting and see if they offer anything to homeschoolers or are they just using us to get more money to benefit the school system.  I posted on a yahoo group asking other hsers if they knew of this and what did they think.  I finally got a nice response to another lady in my state that pretty much told me what I already thought.  So I have decided to just let it go.  We will stay under that radar.  I think he needs more attention not more testing.  I'm positive it will just end up that way.  If I have to then I will enroll under an umbrella school.  I have to do it when he gets to highschool anyway.  Homelife Academy is the one I have been looking at.  I have heard nothing about good about it and they are located here in TN. :)  Always a plus.

WELL.................. After this incredibly long post and seeing it is really really late, I guess i might just have to call it a night. 

I will leave you with the name of the book I am currently reading.  I think it might be an interesting read for those who read to their children as I think they should. 

The Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease

Oh and since I am sharing titles.  We are working on Geography by studying Holland or the Netherlands.  Too tie into that we are reading...

Hans Brinker or the Silver Skate - Mary Mapes Dodge

(Don't ask what all I'm reading.  I always have at least three going.  One Audio.. One fiction.. One for school..)

Goodnight!!