These past couple of weeks have proved to be very hard for our family recently. This last one in particular. When you become a parent it is weeks like these it makes you realize you have no idea what you were getting yourself into. Now as I am typing this I am finding it very hard to do so for several reasons. As most of you all know Nicole of course has been dealing w/ a chronic disease for almost a year now. I had no idea how much it was going to affect her mentally as well as physically. Lat year she missed so much of school that the problems that the girls were facing she did not have to deal w/. This year oh my gosh it hit her like a train. Girls can they be mean. There have been so many things going on and she has been telling me little things on and off and I have been listening but trying to let her deal w/ these problems on her own. There has been a boy who started just teasing her at the beginning of the year but now the teasing has progreassed to hitting and he even tore up a paor of her shoes. Now we have all gone through 5th grade and have all tried to prove our dominance in some sort. But on Thurs Nicole came home and finally told me that she just feels lost and that she feels as if she has no interest in school anymore. She is so angry. She is not the same person anymore. I just don't where to begin w/ all of this. She feels that her friends aren't the same anymore. And there have even been some comments made about her illness. Hasn't this girl been through enough? When talking to her teacher about this a comment was made that she thought that she did not think that Nicole was disliked. Is it because Nicole is tired of the stupid fights and does nto want to be a part of all of it? Is it because she does not fit in like that? And maybe I am stepping on toes here but I am so tired of all of this. I know that some of this cattiness happens and I expect it but I refuse for the bullying to happen.