I'm tired

Jade's ODD is rearing it's ugly head mostly toward me. It's been coming for weeks. She argues about everything. Gary has had to take over most dealing with her because of the arguing. I am counting down the days when she goes to camp and then home for a month and maybe for good.

It is so weird, at first she wouldn't mind Gary. She wouldn't argue with him but she just wouldn't mind him. Now that she argues with me so much that he's had to become the heavy and she minds him better. He says she ropes me into arguments too easy and I don't see it coming. I think it's because I'm so tired. And he has a lot of stress on him and I don't know how long he'll be able to keep up this strong arm.

She did score out the top of her standardized tests. Maybe it is that fine line between guiness (how do you spell that????) and madness.

My school has so reached out to her. She's been asked to help serve at the 5th grade awards day and to be on school announcements next year. I feel like we've given her a good 6 months with many wonderful experiences.

But her problems may be more than we can handle. As I told her yesterday, "I can't work with kids all day, and then put up with a smart assed kid at home too. It's making me much less patient at school and my kids don't deserve that. Plus I got Greg raised, I did my time in raising a smart assed kid and don't relish doing it again.

Fortunately, the school year is almost over and she's going to camp for two weeks and then home for a month.

If it is God's will for her to come back then we will recharge our batteries during this time and will know it. If not, que sera sera. We tried.