A Fabulously Flawed Life

 Hallmark Recordable Book ~ Drake's Reaction {Video} As a speaker at BlissDom , you get mailed a box of fabulous swag from the sponsors. This year Hallmark sent a recordable book with a note saying that they know how hard it is to leave your little ones and so here is something to help make the time apart a little easier. Isn't that so thoughtful!  I know, I know.  The guys over at Hallmark are marketing geniuses.  But it really meant a lot to me since it is really hard getting away. Here is Drake {and the boys} reactions to the book when I gave it to him.   {{giggle}}  <-- that's a link to our YouTube video.  xoxo, Laurie

I found this picture today of Drake at 19 months.  {{bwaahaa!}} I needed the laugh as I had a parent/teacher conference with Drake's preschool teacher today.  It looks like he's not ready to advance to Kindergarten.  {{huge sigh}}  The good news is that his preschool has a kindergarten program.  The classes are a lot smaller and he would get the one-on-one attention he needs.   So he could attend there and then if he wasn't ready to advance to 1st grade, we'd put him in a public school Kindergarten.  It might make the "hold back" a little less obvious or traumatic. The problem isn't that Drake's not smart, it's that he's not maturing at the same pace as the other boys in his class.  Yes, it's obvious that Drake isn't at the same stage - but I guess I just thought that he would step it up in Kindergarten.  His teacher is amazing and I can tell she has his best interests at heart.  So most likely we'll put him in Kindergarten pr...