Category: Neurodivergence in Children
thank you all
done. And home again. Big is playing chess with Tim, and Small is learning backgammon from me (his choice) except he’s gone for a comfort break. It’s been a very long day and I have a stinking headache – I may be back later, but if not I just wanted to say thank you to…
too many tears
I keep thinking I’ve cried about enough and then someone says something nice, or I catch the eye of another member of the family and I’m crying all over again. Then again, we did difficult things today – went to the funeral home and saw the body in a coffin. I really didn’t want to…
Are there things you can't learn at home?
Big is learning something new atm. She’s learning how to deal with another child coming in to her group seemingly as a rival. Big is used to being the biggest, the most helpful, the child who can do things for the staff to help other children. And now we have another girl who is bigger,…
sleepy saturday
the start of my morning was very similar to Jan’s apart from the fact that we don’t have a dishwasher so that was more of a manual operation. 😉 Oh, and the children had already got themselves up and breakfasted. Oh, and we don’t have a dog. OK, so I did washing and breadmaking 😀…
birthdays, beds and other stuff.
We’ve had two birthdays this week, as mentioned previously, so there have been drawn out celebrations. After thursday, which was multiply blogged, on friday we met my mother at M’hell, partly for the purposes of buying wedding wear as my sister’s nuptials are approaching. (This is my sole remaining unmarried sister, so unless they start…
Twitter is over capacity.
“Too many tweets! We’ll try to lighten the load and have things back to normal soon.” Wonder how many of the tweets are to do with it not working properly? They really don’t seem to be scaling very well – anyone got any other recommendations? Didn’t make it out to the scrapstore – given that…
What a difference a day makes
when you leave your laptop switched off 🙂 It’s still switched off. I’m borrowing Tim’s machine, while he’s out shopping and the grots are bathing. I’ve really enjoyed the freedom, haven’t felt that the day got away from me at all. Well, apart from the first hour or so I spent sleeping after the grots…
is it too soon
to claim the day has improved? Perhaps I’d better stick with it’s improving 😉 After a traumatic half hour on Small’s part, when someone mentioned lunch to him, and he realised he hadn’t had breakfast (it *was* offered, but he was too busy being read to, then drawing, then dancing :roll:) and of course, you…
I do wish I had a camera
handy at least! It’s not quite 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning. The tv is playing to itself (must replace it with music). Big is sitting at the newly cleared art table doing more parchment embossing and decorating. Small is doing a paint by numbers at the dining room table. Apparently all the numbers mean…
finally
we have shoes, well actually boots, for Big. I’ve lost count of how many shoe shops we’ve been in and didn’t even try to count how many pairs of shoes we’ve tried on – it’s taken 3 weekends to sort this out! And then, icing on the cake, machine refused my credit card! The cheek…