Parent-Teacher Conferences Still Make Me Nervous!

It's been about a year since the whole ordeal with whether or not Imma was ready for kindergarten began and I still get a little queasy walking into a meeting with her teachers. I know that this is totally different--new school, new district, new philosophy for special education--but I can't help but have momentary flashbacks to the horrendous experience we had last year.
In our new school district there are conferences in the fall and the spring.  We just had Imma's spring conference.  There were no surprises.  Imma is struggling in areas where she has to understand abstract concepts or be able to perform a task based on information she should have attained from listening to a story or specific directions. She is struggling with putting letter sounds together or figuring out unfamiliar words from picture clues.  I'm not surprised at these things.Of course she is having difficulty when it comes to areas where she'd have to be able to process language.
She also has a few areas where her behavior has to be modified.  Again, that's not surprising.  She can be a bit mischievous.  In fact, her behavior at home is probably worse than it is at school.  At least she doesn't try to ride the other children the way she tries to ride the dog.  At this point, she isn't doing anything beyond typical kindergarten "can't keep her hands to herself" and while we are going to continue to work to extinguish this behavior, at least she isn't biting, kicking, punching anyone. No one used the "A" word and no one told me she "couldn't" or "she'll never."
The bottom line is, she's continuing to make progress and her current placement is working. She has an amazing classroom teacher and resource teacher and a phenomenal speech teachers as well.  I've worked with hundreds of teachers in the last 12 years and I can honestly say her kindergarten teacher is one of the very best teachers I've ever had the pleasure of working with. I have been blessed to have the opportunity to work with some amazing kindergarten teachers, having been one myself for several years, and I would put her teacher on the short-list of fabulous teachers. Her resource is a former pre-k teacher so she knows exactly what Imma needs to work on and she does an outstanding job with her as well.  Imma loves both of them very much and she works for them because she has such a good relationship with them.  She also has the benefit of working with speech teachers who are practically miracle-workers.  Imma's speech has come so far this year because of the hard work of these two amazing women, it boggles my mind to think about all of the things Imma says now that she couldn't say a year ago.
Though we still aren't at the kind of conferences I had envisioned for my children--you know, the perfect kind where the teacher just can't stop saying that your child is brilliant and far above grade-level, etc.--we are far from where I think we would have been if we hadn't made the decision to take our Immy and run.  It's hard to believe kindergarten will be over soon but I'm looking forward to next year.  (We have a lot of fabulous first grade teachers, too!)  Before you know it, I'll be at a kindergarten conference for this one:

Is Lu ready for kindergarten?  Is kindergarten ready for Lu??

and that will be a different kind of conference all together! Better get ready, kindergarten, you only have 2 1/2 years to prepare and time's a ticking!