Category: Neurodivergence in Children
working out which way is up
Actually did some stuff with/for the kids today – unpacked five boxes labelled craft shelves in the hope of finding the cards, and only found one kit, but it was enough to get them both set up making birthday cards for forthcoming celebrations. Big was also particularly thrilled to use her embossing tools, as we…
Exhaustion, nausea and other stuff
Actually, the first two factors mean there isn’t a lot of other stuff going on 🙁 Children have been largely self entertaining, although we did take them out and buy them new maths workbooks as the previous ones are in a box somewhere. Big started on Mega Maths this afternoon, she can do it fine,…
Traumatised cat.
When I opened the ladder up to our loft bedroom last night, I realised that the cat had once again expressed his displeasure with the move in the standard way, fortunately this time on the spare quilt rather than on the bed 🙁 So this morning we togged him up with a harness and lead…
Feeling wobbly.
Another day of removing things – Tim is now in Suffolk with a van load of our furniture and boxes and bedding (kids and I have camping mats tonight, I miss our memory foam mattress already 🙁 ) Big has had major wobbles with me this evening, sparked off by my asking if she would…
What no Potter?!
This must be the first day for really quite a while that I have neither heard Stephen Fry, nor seen Daniel Radcliffe on a screen nearby. Kids haven’t even done any reading of that today that I know of, although when they went out to play they both took cloaks and wands 😉 Knowing that…
Yet more boring boxes
Have spent another day processing boxes – Tim removed a stack to go to garage at old house, and tomorrow I must remove some of the steadily accumulating charity shop and rubbish stuff or I’m going to run out of places to put boxes to process. It feels slightly liberating, although I feel terribly guilty…
spinning in circles.
Yesterday I got organised in the morning and took Tim’s car into town, drove it round the town centre three times, then gave up, parked it in a vacant space on a cross road, and carried four box loads of charity shop stuff to the Forget Me Not trust shop on the main road. Each…
I am so tired
again. Still. Bleargh. Anyway, after lunch, Small listened to Harry Potter for approx 5 hours (!) and is now well on his way through the Goblet of Fire, which is cheering Big up as they may get to watch the film soon 🙂 I spent some time in Small’s bedroom, trying to sort and discard…
Saturday is party day
for Big at least 🙂 Knowing that she had to be offthepath for 1pm I dragged myself out of bed in plenty of time to get Big going. It turned out to be in plenty of time to have many running battles, on what to wear, how to speak to ppl, when to get dressed…
the rest of the day.
Big has been attached to the couch, reading Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince. She finished it this evening, and pronounced it very sad, thus proving she’s made of sterner stuff than me, as I wept copiously 🙁 She wants to discuss it, but it’s a bit difficult as I don’t want her to blow…