Emotional week

This has been one very emotional week.  Some big decisions were made; life changing decisions probably.  My son was suspended from school for a day.  We have come to the realization that he just cannot handle a school environment.  We have been fighting tooth and nail for seven years to make the system follow the law and accommodate him as the law allows.  So much easier said that done, believe me!  When there are children that are harder to educate than the average bear, the tendency is to just try not to.  They don't want to have to work that hard.  We have tried for years to force him to be like everyone else.  Truth is, he is not like everyone else.  He doesn't think the same or view the world the same.  But day after day, year after year, we have forced him into an environment that he can't handle.  He is so stressed about having a "good day" at school that it has consumed him.  He is a 12-year-old child and should not be stressed about that.  But he is - he tells us that he stresses about it.  Not one of us is happy and haven't been for a very long time.  We have to bring him home.  Yes, homeschool.  We are going to try to make it through the rest of this year, if we can.  If we're not forced to leave (which wouldn't be the first time).  But starting with 7th grade, we will be homeschooling him until he's ready to return and try this environment again.  Hopefully only a couple of years, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there.  When my husband and I made the decision it was almost as if an enormous weight was lifted from my shoulders!  I'm still apprehensive about the social stuff he may miss but, as my husband said, he's not getting socialized now if he's constantly being removed from class and having melt-downs on a daily basis.  And he's right.  We will just have to make sure he gets out and socializes.  It feels right and sometimes you have to listen to what your heart is telling you is good for your family.  Now, on to other concerns...

I'm missing being able to work on my own writing projects since I started school.  I knew it would be this way and I'm glad I finished the book I was working on before the semester started.  I'm itching to start rewrites on it but that will have to take a back burner, I'm afraid.  While I was writing that book, my two critique partners convinced me I should try my hand at writing a romance.  Now, I'm a fantasy writer with pretty much no background in romance novels.  I've never been a fan of them and not really read any.  I've read a few historical romances, which I dig if they are done right, but other than that, I just don't read them.  But, on their urging, I started thinking what I would write if I were to write a romance.  That developed into the idea of a romance set in 1926 in New Orleans.  Of course, once I was done tossing my ideas around with my husband, it sounded more like a murder mystery full of mobsters and hookers and criminal types...LOL.  However, on that note, I think I will use my blog time each week to help flesh out some of my ideas and characters.  This way, I get the time I would like to spend on my own projects and make sure I am completing school assignments.  See what I did there?  I just killed two birds with one stone! :)  Perhaps I may end up blogging more than once a week - how sweet would THAT be?!  Alas, I have promised my child that I would watch a movie with him, so I better wrap it up tonight and get to that.