G'day, Linda. Enjoy your coffee. I've had to resort to instant, lately, even though we have good coffee beans at home. Just not enough time.
Well, we survived our busy Tuesday. difficult child 3 had trouble settling to work but he's produced a lot over the past week so I can forgive the occasional slow day. husband was home on a day off and suffering from a bad back. He had to see the podiatrist this afternoon (who said the bad back is due to his new shoes).
I took my last lunchtime class for the school year - the kids erupted from their classroom as the lunch bell sounded and instead of heading to the playground, they were screaming, "Chess! Yay!" and heading in my direction. Over 30 kids, not enough chess boards or seats to go around, so the kids sit anywhere and eat their lunch while either playing, or watching. I think I now understand why there is that Light Brigade effect as the bell goes - they're trying to be the first, so they get first turn at actually playing a chess game.
Rushed home from chess to immediately grab my bag to go out with husband, mother in law & difficult child 3. We dropped mother in law at the mall, took husband to his podiatrist appointment, did a little local browsing with just me and difficult child 3 then took him to his drama class, went back to collect husband who dropped me off at the drama class then went to collect mother in law and do a little shopping himself. Back to collect me and difficult child 3, then off to do a bit more shopping (we bought a digital camera for husband's two nieces to share) then home to cook dinner. Whew!
We're losing the drama teacher, there's a chance I'll be asked (with another mother) to step in and do what we can, although I'm not sure but they may insist on someone with education training plus Special Education training. I could do it as part of a team but really, help would be needed; one boy in particular needs individual handling as he upsets all the other kids. This other mother can handle this kid as nobody else can, if we can work together it would be good.
There are other possibilities too, but it would be a shame for this class to cease; it's sometimes the only chance these kids can meet and they mostly get on well, it's good social training for them. Not all are autistic; some have unspecified developmental delay while others are very definitely specified. Not all have intellectual delay, either. Another high-functioning autistic kid is in difficult child 3's class.
Tonight there is a TV show on eagles, difficult child 1 is glued to the TV. difficult child 3 is heading for bed, easy child 2/difficult child 2 is feeling sick (again) and I'm VERY glad we are taking her to see a specialist tomorrow, to try to find what is causing all this. She's not able to eat without feeling sick and having abdominal pain and too many people (and doctors) who don't know her, take one look at her tiny frame and say, "Eating disorder!"
But it's not.
Enjoy your Tuesday, everyone. I'll let you know how we go with easy child 2/difficult child 2 tomorrow.
Marg
is brewing away - it's a Minnesotan blend called, I believe, the Yeti blend the above link is where I order my coffee. I ordered my dad a couple of pounds for Christmas.
