The Middle Class Struggle
Sometimes it's hard to be in the middle class, you know? Let me preface this by saying I'm glad that Mark has a good job and that we don't rely on welfare to get by. That said... Oh. My. Goodness. It should not be this difficult to get your child the help she needs if you aren't making minimum wage and receiving government benefits. There are a lot of things I love about California, but the way they treat the middle class is ridiculous. A little backstory: You all pretty much know about what's going with Bailey - she is very behind in speech and language and definitely needs some help catching up to her peers (she is now 3 years old and is still not speaking in sentences and her words are still a little jumbled). Her intelligence is very high, but she can't figure out how to put the words together to hold a conversation - something just isn't clicking. Anyway, she goes to a daycare program three half days a week and it has really helped ...