Yard work

Yesterday was Saturday and it was a perfect day for doing some yard work. I raked the leaves in the back yard and Sandy followed picking them up and putting them in the trash bucket. We didn't get the entire yard done, gut it looks alot better. Note to self tho *Self, be sure to do this activity in the fall when you are not fighting with the growing weeds*. Mike & I got into yet another row with Sandy (what else is new). She had decided to spend last Sunday with a friend from church (and of course she couldn't decide to do her laundry on Saturday). She got home too late to do her laundry on Sunday, so it waited until this Saturday. We have told her over and over that doing her laundry while we are still sleeping is not a problem, but she "forgot". Now while I understand she was trying to be thoughtful, we have given her permission to use the washer and dryer to get her clothes washed. Seeing as I was barely awake when she started her laundry I didn't pay attention to what she was doing. About 20 minutes into the wash cycle I look over at her basket and see that it is empty. She had taken two weeks of laundry and stuffed them into my washer. I have showed her over and over just how much laundry constitutes one load and yet she still stuffs all of her clothes into my washer. Well we had more then a few words with her. The washer finished with out exploding or dieing in the process but I will see what happens when I do our next load. Since I can't trust her to do as she is told I will have to do her laundry on top of all the other chores I have to do around here since Mike is laid up with his back. We both cleaned/raked so much that both of us didn't make it to church today.

We still don't know about her World Geography grade as the teacher hasn't posted the test that she took at the end of last week. However we did find one project of maps that was worth 400 points that she managed to loose. She made no attempt to talk to the teacher to see if she could do something to make up these points and there was another project that she had 5 days to complete and in typical Sandy fashion put it off until the last day (probably Friday morning) and she "didn't get enough time to complete it" and did not turn in what she had done (if anything). I think that project was worth 200 points. So while she did thinks she did well on her test and had brought her grade up to just below a D, we don't know what it is at this point. We will have to contact her contact teacher Coach Herrod to see if she can find out what her final grade is in this class. If she has flunked this I don't know what this will do to her chance of graduating from the Freshman class. I can hope that she will be able to take summer school, other wise she will have to repeat her Freshman year, or at least that class which will put her one class minimum behind where she should be through the next three years. We have an ARD meeting in April to discuss her future options. We will also have to contact the Air Force, Army & Navy to see if they have a minimum grade GPA to get into basic. Let's just hope and pray that she makes up her mind to graduate and make a life for herself. Mike & I certainly can't make her do the work let alone turn it in. She has to be the one who wants more for her life then flipping burgers or ending up with 5 kids on the welfare system with a boyfriend who will not work to support his kids and beat down Sandy.