You know its not the same as it was

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An: okay. So i will have another timejump. I have a storyline in mind that is not going to happen for some time, but i will lead to it starting now, but for that story line i need it to be in the future. With Nina and the tripplets being older. Okay here we go. It will start cute, but there will be Drama and Trauma.

Another thing. I worked in special education and am going to be working their again once my health gets in line. I still might use terms wrong, because i am german and the terms might be different. Here is what i know and how i use terms to help prevent missunderstanding.

"Lern-Behinderung." translates to "Learning Disability" : A person with a learning disabilitly is someone with forexample dislexia or discalculia or somebody with a IQ between 80 and 70.

"Geistige Behinderung." translates to "cognitive disabilitiy": A person with a cognitive disability is someone with a IQ under 70 or problems in the social adaptabilities.

"Kind mit Förderschwerpunkt" translates to "Child with special educational needs"  That is a child with any needs that help to learn like what society deems regular.

"Regel Kind/ Regel Schule" translates to "Regular child/Regular school" I typically developing child / a school for typically developing children

It has been 3 years. The tripplets just finished Kindergarden. Ellie had been in as Special Education kindergarden, whereas Meena and Louise were in a regular one. For next year however all three of them will go to a inclusive elementry school. The program works like this. There are two schools that share one building.
A special ed school and a regular school. Each class consists of about 15 regular kids and up to 10 but mostly about 7 kids with special needs. They have two teachers and a few one-on-ones for the kids, who need them.
Ellie will have a one on one, because she is still not potty trained, and the family isn't sure if it is possible for her because of the lack of muscle controll and she uses a walker for short or a wheelchair for longer distances. The class has two rooms, they work together in the beginning and then in later, they will seperate for things like english, maths and sience, but continue to learn together in subjects such as music, sports, swimming, arts and crafts and a special subject call social learing. In this subject, they learned all about emotions and about how to be a decent human in this world.

Defiantly necesary for everyone (also some grown-ups should get a tough up in this department.) The special education kids have school until 4pm, that is because they get all their therapies in school and take more breaks, they get lunch from the school, but the parents have to pay for that. It is however not expensive. The regular kids have school until 12:30am or 1pm except fridays where everyone has school unitl 11:15 am.
Ellie has developed really well. She has kicked her disabilitys ass everyday and learned to speak and comunicate. When she spoke she spoke slow and slurred, but  understandable and with right grammar. For her to be placed in her school she had and IQ test done, she reached an IQ of 67, which deems her cogitively disabled. What made Ellie so successfull, is her work ethic. She wanted to learn and she wanted to speak and walk and she wouldn't stop. "She's got that from you." Carina chuckled and Maya nodded.

Louise had started going to a music school a few months ago. She had piano lessons and singing lessons with a group, each once a week and she loved it Meena had started track and field. Maya was very aprehensive. She was scared her daughter would experience the abuse, she had suffered under, but after a she saw how much Meena enjoyed running and jumping and all the other athletic disciplines, she gave in. Ellie was going to start horse riding therapy next year. They were very excited for her to have the opportunity, as Ellie loved all animals especially horses.

Nina had finished highschool and was quite happy with her results. She wanted to work in medicine, but her grades weren't quite good enough to studdy medicine and so she decided on studdiing to be a nurse. She did however not want to leave her family just yet and decided to do a gap year and working as a volunteer at Grey-Sloan-Memorial. She worked on the pediatric floor along the nurses and she loved it. It was great for her parents to see her passion. In her freetime Nina trained a dancegroup. The kids were 4 to 6 years old and she taught them how to move their bodys, coordination and simple choreografies. She would however need to stop because, she would move to Portland after the summer to get her degree in nursing. She had managed to get a full scolarship for the school fees, for which Carina and Maya were increadibly proud of. This year of volunteering already taught her so much and she was so excited for more.

Before then the family decide to go on a big family holiday to Italy. Everything seemed to go so fast, their eldest daughters was going away for college and their youngest daughters were starting school and Maya and Carina wanted some time with the girls and make some memories as a family.

The door opened and Carina hear a sigh. "Bambina?" "Yes. I am home."  Maya said as she took her shoes off. "Are you okay?" Carina got of the couch. She was waiting as Maya was supposed to be home by 5pm and now it was 9:30pm. She did however text her that she was going to be late. "I am okay. There was a four alarm and it was crazy." Carina smiled and wrapped Maya in a hug. "You look tired." "I am tired and hungry." Maya chuckled. "Go shower, i will heat up some dinner for you." "Thank you." Maya kissed Carina and rested her head on her shoulder. "Go. I will give you more cuddles later, but you smell." "Alright. Got it." Maya said, but laughed.

"I am so sore. I don't know why, this shift was so hard. Running around with the turnouts. I did that everyday and now i am exhausted after one." Maya sighed and finished her caneloni. "Well. You are just not used to it anymore." "I still workout and run. But i think you are right. I am getting old." Carina laughed. "Our daughter is going to college. We are getting old." They had celebrated the brunettes 45th birthday. Maya was about to be 42 in August. "I didn't think i would feel old so soon." Maya said and rolled her neck to eleviate the stiffness. "Well, i think we are just the right age. And i also think we should go upstairs. You need a massage." Carina smirked "Oh i really do." "Yeah?" Maya nodded and took Carinas hand. "Andiamo."

"What else do we need for our trip?" Maya asked as she rested in Carinas embrace. The massage was great and she was getting sleepy. "Hm. The toiletries and the electronics. But we can go over all of that tomorrow. We have time, now sleep." "Okay. Good night." "Bonna notte, bambina."


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