Public, Private, or Home?

So lately the state of Texas has done massive budget cutting to education. Our wonderful Gov. Rick Perry is the one who makes these decisions with the flick of the pen in his hand. I will be honest I DID NOT WHATSOEVER VOTE FOR THIS D-BAG!! I believe the education of children is the most important thing we can do for them and for us as well. They will one day be in our positions making decisions and running our country. No D-Bag Perry is not the one handing out the pink slips himself but he is one of many deciding to cut the budget even shorter than it is. Look around there are no "accessory" positions available at a school. By accessory I mean aides, nurses, principals, etc. Then look a little more and see that there are huge layoffs of teachers as well. So now what will happen when all of these students no longer have teachers to teach them? What happens when soon to graduate teachers are out in the job force along with the ones that have lost their job? Over crowding of classes, lower test scores, less and less students making it to go on to the next grade. Young people easily fall through the cracks and when you have a class size of 1 teacher to 33+ students guess what happens to the majority of them? There is no way they can reach whatever potential they have. I am lucky to live in a city that has small class rooms and small schools. But for how much longer? I do not want my son to be herded in and out of school never fully grasping the fundamentals of his education. I understand that I as his mother have a responsibility to make sure he is prepared to do so but once he is in the classroom the teacher takes over until he is home from school. The teacher is the one to show him what he needs to learn so that I can assist in this at home. A friend of mine said recently that if a child does not grasp these basics skills by 9th grade the chances of them ever doing so is slim. This is unfair to the kid. I do understand there are those that are set in front of a television for hours on end or play video games forever not caring to learn what they need to but our household will not be that way. There are those students who need more one on one or smaller groups to be able to succeed in school. How are they ever going to get this? So to The Powers That Be in our capitol making these decisions so easily because it does not at all affect them, they dont have young children or they are able to afford private schools or whatever the case may be, thank you for screwing us once again!! http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/politics/entries/2011/03/09/perry_dont_blame_state_for_tea.html

Now that I am off my soap box I can move on to bigger and better topics! Lol. Tonight we are pulling up the old carpet in our downstairs area. We are doing a total of 685ft! But the end result will be soo worth it. I am so excited for it. Hopefully when we sell our house it'll be on thing to really make it stand out and better to sell. Although with these renovations I am not sure I want to sell. hahaha!

I am amazed at how Japan is handling the recent earthquake! Their buildings are so well built that they can withstand such a huge earthquake with minimal damage! Here in Texas we are lucky to withstand strong winds with some homes. My thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected by not only the earthquake but all parts of the world that are getting the tsunamis as well. Also I am praying for those who are part of the burning wild fires not far from here. Just about an hour north of here over 3000 acres have burned and more are continuing to burn. So far no homes have been damaged but these are peoples farmlands that are burning so not only are they losing land for now they are losing their income as well.

I have failed my son. As clean as I try to keep things and as hard as I try to keep gross things from his reach I failed today. Earlier I put him on the floor to play while I made his lunch and I cleared out all nonbaby friendly items. These items included 3 dog bones (the hard white kind) several dog toys and Mylo's "baby"-a disgusting polar bear that is now unrecognizable as to what it once was. When I came back about 60secs later Mylo had decided to share his bone and brought one to Evan who was happily going in for a nice chew! I was able to stop him from going in but I have no idea if he had already tested his two teeth in it! I couldnt bring myself to touch it and see. I quickly used a wipe and cleaned him off and fed him to wash his mouth out but geeze how gross is that? The other day I stopped Zeppelin from licking his face. She had gotten a few good licks in but his eyes and mouth were thankfully closed! I pray this kid makes it to a year old with out some funky illness!!