G'day, people.
Linda, it's good to see you on the morning thread. Enjoy the family visit. Don't overdo things.
Fran, it's good to see the steady improvement in your difficult child.
I had a fairly busy day today. House cleaning early, including some cooking and washing. I have help once a week but because I work alongside, I still get tired.
Then I had about an hour to rest before I had to leave to meet easy child 2/difficult child 2 at the college counsellor's. In that hour difficult child 3 & I talked to a teacher about an assignment he's having trouble with; it seems the worksheets are missing some vital information.
At the counsellor's, easy child 2/difficult child 2 was a lot calmer. We've got some strategies in place, some professional counselling being lined up for Monday, this will be ongoing. We still need to sort out some problems at college, but we've made progress now.
Tomorrow I'm taking mother in law to the optometrist. I have an appointment also, to get my prescription checked out. The eye doctor has cleared me for it. Although my vision is a bit blurry, and now I'm aware that a lot of it is the new floaters. I don't think a change in prescription is going to help much.
difficult child 3 has some new glasses on order also, but they haven't called yet to say they're in. So we'll have repeat trips in that direction anyway. The optometrist is more than halfway to the correspondence school, so we might link in a school trip on the day we collect difficult child 3's specs.
I still haven't been phoned by difficult child 3's English teacher (the one who accused me of writing difficult child 3's assignment; the principal said to me, a week ago, "she will ring to apologise in the next couple of days.") I know she won't be there now until next week. So if the mountain won't go to Mahommed... I've requested a face to face meeting for Tuesday. We will see what happens.
Time to go - difficult child 3 is screaming at husband, I think for the 'crime' of husband trying to ask him something while difficult child 3 is gaming online. No excuse. Gotta go.
Marg