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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 311270" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>G'day, folks.</p><p></p><p>Sharon/WO, I've never understood the attraction of cookie dough, vs the final result. But you've given me an idea - I might get difficult child 3 to bake some cookies. If I can make sure our oven is working. I tried to roast a chicken tonight and again, it took three times as long. I think the bottom element in the oven is gone. I had to quickly whip up something else for dinner. As for keepnig difficult child occupied, I second the idea of giving him a Nintendo DS (use a package like Brain Training) to keep him occupied and quiet.</p><p></p><p>Fran, I wonder if they ever outgrow the rnts. At least he apologised. We're still working on that one, across the board. Conditional apologies seem to be the worst, worse than no apology. "I'm sorry I did X but I wouldn't have, if you hadn't done Y." Sometimes I just want to bang heads together.</p><p></p><p>TM, I'm sorry Duckie is still sick. I hope the medications can help. Good luck getting her in to the doctor. I hope she gets a thorough going over, a good listen to the chest, etc. There are some nasty coughs around, including whooping cough (speaking from experience!)</p><p></p><p>It's been a busy, full, interesting day. difficult child 3 was really good for the media interview (I posted separately). It took six hours, including a break while they went off to the local cafe to grab some lunch. But I'm certain that all the extra stimulation has made him more mentally fatigued. Added to this, husband came home from his first day back at work after having holidays for easy child 2/difficult child 2's wedding, and he was mentally exhausted. The two of them were clashing a bit tonight, this is going to happen more and more until we can find another way to handle the mutual mental exhaustion and intolerance they both get when tired.</p><p></p><p>I told them both to go to bed - difficult child 3 has gone to bed and to sleep quite quickly. He was protesting that he didn't feel that today was stressful because he quite enjoyed the experience, he found it interesting. I pointed out to him that interesting or not, it still is mentally tiring to deal with something so new and for such a long time. I tihnk he might have finally realised this. Certainly he put his light out almost immediately.</p><p></p><p>husband has taken longer to head for bed - he's trying to solve a complex computer problem and frankly I think is now too tired to think clearly about it.</p><p></p><p>Has anyone got any experience on trying to formalise a diagnosis for someone, so late in life?</p><p></p><p>Tomorrow I have a busy day but I can leave difficult child 3 at home. Frankly, I would enjoy a break from him and I suspect he will enjoy having control over his own day. Our oven seems to have gone on the blink, husband is gonig to try to bring home a high temperature thermometer from work so we can check out the oven thermostat. Handy having scientists in the family!</p><p></p><p>Enjoy your Monday.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 311270, member: 1991"] G'day, folks. Sharon/WO, I've never understood the attraction of cookie dough, vs the final result. But you've given me an idea - I might get difficult child 3 to bake some cookies. If I can make sure our oven is working. I tried to roast a chicken tonight and again, it took three times as long. I think the bottom element in the oven is gone. I had to quickly whip up something else for dinner. As for keepnig difficult child occupied, I second the idea of giving him a Nintendo DS (use a package like Brain Training) to keep him occupied and quiet. Fran, I wonder if they ever outgrow the rnts. At least he apologised. We're still working on that one, across the board. Conditional apologies seem to be the worst, worse than no apology. "I'm sorry I did X but I wouldn't have, if you hadn't done Y." Sometimes I just want to bang heads together. TM, I'm sorry Duckie is still sick. I hope the medications can help. Good luck getting her in to the doctor. I hope she gets a thorough going over, a good listen to the chest, etc. There are some nasty coughs around, including whooping cough (speaking from experience!) It's been a busy, full, interesting day. difficult child 3 was really good for the media interview (I posted separately). It took six hours, including a break while they went off to the local cafe to grab some lunch. But I'm certain that all the extra stimulation has made him more mentally fatigued. Added to this, husband came home from his first day back at work after having holidays for easy child 2/difficult child 2's wedding, and he was mentally exhausted. The two of them were clashing a bit tonight, this is going to happen more and more until we can find another way to handle the mutual mental exhaustion and intolerance they both get when tired. I told them both to go to bed - difficult child 3 has gone to bed and to sleep quite quickly. He was protesting that he didn't feel that today was stressful because he quite enjoyed the experience, he found it interesting. I pointed out to him that interesting or not, it still is mentally tiring to deal with something so new and for such a long time. I tihnk he might have finally realised this. Certainly he put his light out almost immediately. husband has taken longer to head for bed - he's trying to solve a complex computer problem and frankly I think is now too tired to think clearly about it. Has anyone got any experience on trying to formalise a diagnosis for someone, so late in life? Tomorrow I have a busy day but I can leave difficult child 3 at home. Frankly, I would enjoy a break from him and I suspect he will enjoy having control over his own day. Our oven seems to have gone on the blink, husband is gonig to try to bring home a high temperature thermometer from work so we can check out the oven thermostat. Handy having scientists in the family! Enjoy your Monday. Marg [/QUOTE]
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