Oh, MHD, that is so very sad. Your poor dd. I'm glad that her teacher has been good and I hope that she will manage to turn things around a bit in the class for your dd. Praying for her and also for the other kids, that they will see the harm that their unkind words can do, and learn to be more understanding. Oh, and for you too... it's so hard to be so powerless to make things OK for your children. But I know that she will be safe and secure in your love.
Praying for a smooth move for you, Blue. Sterre's stone is beautiful.
Soozi -does it help to pray 'Not my will, but yours be done'? I don't know if it does, but (as some people know because I've wittered on about it at length!) I turned to God because I was desperate to do something to help some friends who were battling with infertility. But I felt so unworthy to ask God to give them the baby that they so desired... I wasn't even sure if I believed in God at that point 
. So I prayed that God's will be done, and that if it was not his will that they have their baby that he find a way to make that OK for them. That's how I'd understand the idea of relinquishing control, I suppose. I hope that your day at the convent goes well.
I'd give anything for a day at a convent at the moment (or at the bottom of a deep dark well, or anywhere where other people - and their annoying emails - are not...). Very stressed by work. I do have quite a lot of stress in my work, but normally I kind of thrive on it in a strange sort of way, but this week things have piled up and got a bit out of control and I've been finding it very hard. I have a permanent knot in my stomach and stress headache. I am laughing at myself now, though, because I realise that I should take my own advice and relinquish control a bit shouldn't I? Work does bring out the control freak in me though! Prayers for a bit of inner calm would be welcome.
Oh... and I hate fireworks [wuss] and there are kids throwing them about on the playing fields outside my house. [Hides under bed...]