We are starting to get it, Autism.

The first few days of homeschooling were not the best. As the week went on it did get a little better. Had no time for JSNCreative. Which I can tell you was no fun.

Doodle is going through a great phase right now. She's destroying the bedroom. Yeah, that's fun. And so far this morning she just wants the iPad and doesn't want to do any schoolwork. Not sure how well this day is gonna go.

Doodle did sleep through the storm that hit our area last night. It really didn't appear to be that bad. Lightening on top of lightening. We never lost power so that was a good thing.

I still have the magazine to do this week. I need to get more done this week then I did last week, in order to stay on schedule.

Oh and many of you don't know but on January 21st we went to the pound and adopted a dog. He has Doodle's personality. So now I'm wrangling two pains in the butt during quarantine. Wait for it...the eye roll.

Doodle does need a lot of one on one help with her schooling. I can't work at Michaels while Doodle is doing home school because she's been in quarantine since the day the virus hit our area. It's more for her protection than anything else. With breathing issues already and her neurological issues, this would all just compound on her and that's not something I want with Doodle.

 It's already after 8 am and Doodle is still refusing to do any work. This is gonna be a fun day! She did brush her teeth but she's not willing to do anything else. And the whole brushing her teeth, that was a fight in itself.

I need to set up a photography section close to where Doodle is working so that I can get work done for the publishing company and help her when she decides she going to be doing her school work. She's not happy with school and not happy with the fact that school is now at home. The separation line is so far blurred I've about lost it.

So lift your coffee cups and cheers with me. Here's to another day, with frustration and fruitfulness.

See you guys on the flip side.

E-learning and Autism: Spoiler alert! It's not going well.

Yes, it's been awhile. Almost a year ago since my last post for this blog. So what changes have been made? Just trying to survive life with autism. And I was doing pretty good until today schooling from home started.

Started prepping everything for Doodle to do schooling from home last week. Couldn't get into the classes to even see anything. This morning finally got it all figured out and then I logged in. Only two classes were listed to be seen. Couldn't see anything else. I'm spending such much of my time reading to my child her classwork that I will not be able to get anything done for my own business.

Oh you want me to turn in class assignments? Where??? We answer the questions we do what we are suppose to do and click that the assignment has been finished but the notification that the work was not submitted is the issue.

Look there is a reason why I never home schooled Doodle. And I've had plenty of opportunities in the past. Online schooling is not necessarily created for kids with sever disabilities. I have been trying to teach my kid how to learn anything her entire life and I've never been successful at it. Yes, I can get her to do school work, that's not a problem. It's teaching her that's the problem. I was unsuccessful with potty training. She didn't manage that until she was almost 7 years old. Never could get her to read, no matter how many books I read to her or words I tried to teach her. She didn't speak until she was almost 7 years of age.

I will say it, I'm frustrated and mad as hell. This online learning is a shit show! We do the work, answer the questions and submit that everything is completed and yet it says no work submitted. I am beyond frustrated!

Look I've done my time! I should not be coming back to learn the 8th grade. I've done more than enough of my time when you throw in my college degree. Which I also feel was a waste of time I might add. Business administration degree. Did it teach me anything I needed to know about running a business. No that was all trail and error and a lot of help from my friend who owns his own company. And he didn't go to college.

So at this point we are opting out of online learning. We will do a paper trail for the rest of the week while I try to figure out how I'm suppose to get any of her school done with her and I can get to my own work done for my business. I'm used to juggling multiple projects but this project is too far out of my reach to help on.

I'm either going to cry for the rest of the week or become an alcoholic cause there's only two options right now.

Doodle is at the point where she is stimming so much it's unbearable for me. I know that it's going to take a bit to work all the kinks out, I understand that, but we've been on spring break for 3 weeks now and surely someone has got to have a better plan for parents who work and children with disabilities. Doodle learns differently than what I can teach her.

This mornings lesson for social studies was to learn about the coliseum. How it was made, the construction of it. Well just doing a virtual tour and reading about it is not how Doodle learns with me. For her to grasp it I would need to teach her to construct her own with modeling clay. And that's where I am failing. She's not grasping anything that I'm reading to her, she's waiting on me to give her the answers and that's not fair to her or myself.

So as of right now. She's sick. Give me who I need to turn in the sick note too cause this is just horrible on all parts!

I'm headed out to go get Doodle's paper packet and then get work done on the publishing company.

See you guys on the flip side.