My Mother the Saint

I have been doing an algebra textbook since September. It hardly misses anything and even include extra lessons for the " spacial" kids who need a little extra shove or should I say bulldozing for them to understand whats going on. I have been doing well so far, getting at least 90% on the tests. I do the lessons alone and if I have any questions I review them with Mum later. This system has not worked for the last chapter of the aforementioned book, it all began with something other people like to call "factoring polynomials" but what I prefer to call "splitting headache" I started the chapter learning how to factor regular numbers, which I am proud to say I (although I thought it was stupid) understood quite well, it was down hill from there. On lesson two they plunged me into a world I felt completely helpless in." I don't care if (x-9)(x+10)= X²+ 10x-9x-90, my brain would say, what is the practical use of this anyways?". So I did the lessons with Mum. I have to say, if I were homeschooling a kid like myself, I would have long since thrown up my hands and said "I give up, go ask your exponentially shrinking brain for the answer". Mum didn't do that, She was unbelievably patient and stuck with me through it all the ridicules questions I was asking ( She also answered all the questions I didn't care to ask, but needed to know the answer too).I did the first half of the test today, it went surprisingly well. The test took me a little, Okay, a lot longer then usual but that was probably because I got my braces tightened today and I had a headache until I took Ibuprofen. Anyways this is a thank you to Mum, thank you for not getting annoyed with me, I really appreciate it and I am so glad to get over this bump in math.