Everything now is about getting the house up for sale. Not sure if I should immediately pay off the HELOC or let it go as I spend $ on curb appeal projects. I have another 21 years left on the HELOC, and $37K before I hit my max.
So I abandon the car plan and YNAB for now.
I must call about landscaping the front and back, bridge loans, and maybe even a Bellingham real estate agent. I need to call its School District Admin office and see how they accept/treat children with graphomotor difficulties. I went to a meeting yesterday at my son's school: I still don't understand his teacher other than that he has two dozen kids, an overloaded schedule, and a high priority to make sure his students can write competently and that he himself meets the metrics and expectations the district gives him. He doesn't entertain the possibility that my kid is bored/frustrated with his class, because I guess teachers think if you have special needs or some sensory problem going on, your brain is supposed to be stuck on that and not at all racing so fast and finding the pace of the class slow. I want a cognitive test without 130-level ceilings to see if my kid's . brain is doing much else. There are programs for the highly capable but if you're hindered by a disorder that makes writing or fine motor actions grievously poor you don't get accepted.
It doesn't make sense to move to a city with 1/10 the population and expect more understanding and experience, I guess.
Weirdness: all the other properties are going up except my and my friend's. She's got just under $120K left on her mortgages and I have just under $130K on mine.
time to suspend my savings goals
April 27th, 2012 at 05:16 pm
April 28th, 2012 at 12:47 am 1335570434
forgive my ignorance but does your son cope using an iPad rather than being frustrated with problem skill sets? Does he use games like Wii or??? to work on motor skills?
April 28th, 2012 at 12:58 am 1335571111
My son does not have an iPad, and don't apologize, I didn't write about coping mechanisms. He does have a Wii and does use it to work. His pencil grip is a problem, his executive function is a problem, and his teacher's and my delay in addressing this is also a problem.
Online testing helps somewhat. I have a word processing application he can use, but he has a Linux system, so it may either be used on Wine or he'll have to inherit my laptop or we buy a cheap notebook with Windows on it.