Day after ER

So she gets home from school and there was no tutoring due to the teacher being absent. Yet she fiddles around in getting started with her homework and was nearly impossible to keep on task. She was in a decent mood but was LOOKING for a fight. She put her lunch box on the counter and announced doing it. I KNEW that when I looked inside I would find her lunch in it and sure enough, I did. She wanted me to know that I could not control what she did or didn't eat. Same with her water bottle I sent. It was full.

We struggled through every problem of homework but made it most of the way through by dinner time. I had made a meatloaf and mashed potatoes with all the fixin's. She was loving the smell and asked what was for dinner. I informed her that her lunch was for dinner. Then she decides to tell me that she had a taco at school but at this point, I didn't care. She asked if she ate her lunch if she could have meatloaf and I agreed that it would be fine.

She sat down and ate her lunch. Then ate meatloaf and potatoes. Let's just say, the lunches have been eaten since that day!

She finished her homework up at 6:45. I told her she needed to take a shower because she was going to bed early to make up for the lack of sleep the night before. She was again, really upset about not getting family time. I reminded her that the whole time she was doing homework, I was prodding her to stay focused and she refused. That she didn't even sit down and start until 4:00 because she was delaying it. That was time that could have been family time. It was as if she didn't hear me and was just plain upset. She was so tired that she cried out of disappointment and exhaustion but went ahead and went to shower and bed. She was in bed by 7:30. She woke up in a much better mood the next day and things have been normal since. Her kind of normal, of course!

Two days ago she worked a solid 2.5 hours on homework without losing focus. I felt so bad for her. She had 7 assignments, none of which were make up from being gone. What is it with this school??? Is that just too much or is it just me?? When is she supposed to play and unwind with the family?? We have not had any family time until yesterday and it was becaus we cancelled our date night or we would not have had it then, either. I am SO FRUSTRATED with school. Her grades have come up a bit and she is really trying hard. I fear we are going to start heading the wrong direction again if we can't get back into a balance with her school work load.