G'day, folks.
Linda, the changing seasons should provide you with plenty of material for painting.
Sharon/WO, enjoy your party. Are you also eating corn as well?
Sharon/LDM, have you got some good ideas for difficult child's science project? Keeping notes shouldn't be too difficult, if he just plans his work as he goes and minutes what he does. For the procedure, anyway, he doesn't need any more than this - to write what he's doing and what he hopes to observe. Typing it on the computer should make it easier.
Talk about spring cleaning - Linda, you were organising kt's clothes and I was doing the same with difficult child 3. After buying him his suit yesterday from the budget place (and a pair of dress shoes for $20, and a belt for $12) all he needs now is a shirt and tie. husband has a tie for him, so difficult child 3 & I went to the op-shop this morning to look for a couple of nice dress shirts.
We found a lovely chambray shirt which will look good with the black suit. Being chambray, it also feels good. Second-hand shirts are softer, too - better for Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) kids.
Of course, going to op-shops can be disastrous. Someone delivered some bags of clothes from a young woman; judging by what was delivered, the woman has similar taste to me and is (was) slightly smaller. The ladies there didn't help - they kept holding up this or that and asking me if it was my size. I came home with a bag full! However, it gave me the excuse to go through my wardrobe on my return and begin to throw out the skirts, the shirts and other recent hand-me-downs which I've grown into and now grown out of, and which didn't really fit me well or suit me well anyway.
Then I began putting things away, starting with difficult child 3's new shirts. Now, he shares a bedroom with difficult child 1 (only for the next six weeks, now). I put the new shirts in the wardrobe and began flicking through what was already there, pulling out anything likely to be too small. Then I found a shirt with an unusual V-neck - it was MINE! What is more, it was one I couldn't remember having seen for a very long time, I had even forgotten I owned it. Someone had put it away in the boys' wardrobe and OF COURSE my older son never thought to say, "This shirt isn't mine - whose is it?"
difficult child 1 has also been wearing a shirt around which looks very much like the style BF2 wears, plus BF2 was claiming to be missing some shirts.
So I grabbed all the small stuff plus my shirt and got them into my room to have a look. I needed to do a small load of washing but rather than run the machine for only a few clothes, I went into the boys' room again and dragged out what clothes I could reach within range of the doorway. The washing machine now had a large load which finally got hung out this afternoon. I ran it on a warm wash, with deodoriser and with stain removal tricks thrown in. So far, so good. In that load is BF2's missing shirt and also there are some shirts maybe too small for difficult child 3, brand new, which I had to cut the labels out of to wash. Something had dripped on them in the wardrobe (I have no idea what on earth it could have been). If difficult child 3 gets to wear them at all, it will be a miracle. He has a young friend who will happily accept them, though.
Boys! Honestly! Infuriating!
Mind you, in the shirts in my wardrobe that I removed, are a number of black shirts which I would never have bought for myself. I'm thinking they could also be BF2's... well, I guess they are now!
Enjoy your Tuesday.
Marg
I love days like this where the temps are only suppose to be in the 50s. 
