ADD and Other Stuff....... Oh, and American Idol Sucks!

Well American Idol doesn't suck but America does. What in the world is wrong with you people? Why would you vote off Melinda Doolittle? She should be the winner. She deserves it. But nooooooooo............. all of the idiots voted her off. That's right, the same morons that kept Sanjawa, who couldn't sing with Josh Groban's voice, on the show.

OK, rants over. My daughters school thinks she has ADD. They think she needs to be medicated.

Here's why. She had accomplished absolutely nothing this year in school. No, really. She has done nothing. She is in her own world when she is in school. This has been an on going problem. Once, a couple of years ago she had a wedding on her desk where she married her pencils. This is a daily issue. Not marrying her pencils, just not being focused on what she is supposed to be doing. Sylvia and I have been trying for 4 years now to have her held back. We held Tyler back in first grade and it was one of the best things we could have done for him. With Rachel we have been handed one excuse after another as to why she should not be held back.

Now here we are ready to go to the 5th grade and she is not ready. Once again we are being handed more excuses by the school system to not hold here back. They told us to get her tested and to get an official diagnosis for ADD. We took her to our doctor and he took her off of sugar, artificial sweeteners, dairy, and caffeine. He says get rid of this stuff and her focus will come back. He says medication is just a to keep ADD prone kids out of every one's hair so that they don't have to deal with the problem. So we have begun the arduous task of removing these things from her diet. What we have found out so far is that she doesn't get caffeine. The only soda she drinks is Sprite. She doesn't eat a lot of dairy......... she hates milk. She eats cereal without milk. She does eat a lot of cheese though. Oh, and ice cream. But we don't let her or the other 2 eat a lot of this stuff. We try to keep it in check and for the most part do a fairly good job at it. So we are going to try what the doctor said for a while and see what happens.

Sylvia is doing fine. She is over the nausea, morning sickness thing and is now moving into the my clothes don't fit me anymore phase. Thankfully I have a couple of very lucrative jobs going right now. We are also church shopping........... if that's an appropriate way to put it. With gas prices being over $3 a gallon driving the 40 miles to our last church 3 days a week is just way too much. Plus with what went on at Disney a few weeks ago we feel we need to stick close to home and not put too much stress on Sylvia.

So here we are going through a transition period in our lives and actually looking forward to it.