G'day, folks.
Rabbit, enjoy your play-date with a grown-up. We do need these events to stop us from going stir-crazy!
Sharon/WO, I used to find (still do a bit) when difficult child 3 was coming down with something, his behaviour was a lot worse. Then again when he was recovering. It was like he couldn't concentrate well enoguh to control his behaviour, when he was not well and when how he felt kept changing.
Sharon/LDM, sounds like a busy day for you. Enjoy your summery weather while you can.
difficult child 3 had a Maths day at school today. I worry because he's doing the top level class but still takes a very long time to complete his work. He said earlier this year he can't handle it, but his Maths teacher keeps saying he's very happy with his progress, so who can argue? Besides, the sort of problems he's having, he'd be having even in the bottom class.
After the class finished and all the oter kids went home, I gave difficult child 3 a choice to do the last part of his exam today, or to do it at hoome tomorrow. He finally decided to do it today so the librarian let us use one of the study rooms and we did it in there. And wouldn't you know? Where he went badly overtime with the rest of his paper 9we mark off when he's out of time, then he continues on to finish it and we write in how much extra time it took) he actually finished this part of the paper early. So I've asked for the extra time to be allotted to one of the other sections, so he can get those marks after all. I think the faster finish is at least aprtly due to being in at school for it, instead of at home. There were even people tlaking loudly outside the room, and he kept on working.
After that, we headed back to our outer suburb area to the mall, to get a few shopping items and pick up easy child 2/difficult child 2's pearl pendant she bought for her wedding. Then drove to the railway station to wait for husband (his car is in for service). While we waited (just on sunset) difficult child 3 watched four cockatoos raiding a rubbish bin and arguing over who got which titbits. One would keep a lookout while the others rummaged in turn. It was very funny to see their reactions. They dive in to the bins and throw out any rubish that doesn't have food in it. Of course they never pick it up and put it back when they're done...
Tonight I got to drop in Bridesmaid 4's dress to my friend the superhuman dressmaker/cake maker/MC/new grandmother. I might get a chance to talk to her in more depth tomorrow, she's not visiting her daughter and baby tomorrow as they're coming out of hospital. So she's going to sew for us.
The dust storm has finally blown itself out. They say more are likely to blow in to town, but not as bad as the one we had.
Let's hope there's no dust storm for next weekend!
Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg
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