Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, folks.
School goes back tomorrow for difficult child 3. Time to get him back into a routine and to see how he fares on the new medication. It will be interesting...
We had a good day today playing trains. Last night husband & I sent our apologies for church - double booked again!
It was cold and I wore about 6 layers of clothing, we didn't think the place would be busy but it was, even when some early spots of rain began just after lunch. husband's train broke down almost as soon as he got it going, there were other problems with trains partly due to the crowds and little boys throwing gravel onto the train tracks caused one locomotive to derail badly enough to need repairs. Nobody injured, thank goodness, but the kids looking on got a very important lesson in exactly why you don't put stuff on train tracks. I explained how a small piece of gravel the size of a pea is, for one of our miniature trains, like a huge boulder for a full-sized steam locomotive. husband helped with the repairs and the loco was back out on the track.
difficult child 3 did well, he helped with keeping the coal buckets filled until he was no longer needed, then he took himself off to chip slag off some freshly welded train track - nobody asked him to do this, it wasn't a work day, it was cold and he could have gone back to the car or into the members shed to keep warm. So I'm pleased with him.
We've come home driving through more rain, the drive along the coast road was shrouded in mist and the rainforest was much darker than usual.
Over the next few days I have to finish off the short film clip audition for easy child 2/difficult child 2 (and post it) which I think also requires her to print out and sign an agreement form from the 'Net as well as clip a coupon from the magazine application form. So I'll have to drive out to see her to do this. mother in law needs to go to te bank so I've offered to drive her on Tuesday, I'll arrange to meet up with easy child 2/difficult child 2 at the same time. There's also a good job advertised in the local paper that I'm pushing her to apply for (it gets her into her chosen career of teaching plus gets her out of her current job as checkout chick, a job she's hating right now because she has a boss who's a bully and doesn't know how to supervise staff).
What I've got to do isn't too onerous but it is going to take a certain amount of mental juggling to keep all the balls in te air at the same time.
Trish, if easy child 2/difficult child 2 gets this audition accepted, she could be working up near your neck of the woods for a few months. I'll have to see if she can move in with my brother's family for the duration, at least for the days when she would be working up there.
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.
Marg
School goes back tomorrow for difficult child 3. Time to get him back into a routine and to see how he fares on the new medication. It will be interesting...
We had a good day today playing trains. Last night husband & I sent our apologies for church - double booked again!
It was cold and I wore about 6 layers of clothing, we didn't think the place would be busy but it was, even when some early spots of rain began just after lunch. husband's train broke down almost as soon as he got it going, there were other problems with trains partly due to the crowds and little boys throwing gravel onto the train tracks caused one locomotive to derail badly enough to need repairs. Nobody injured, thank goodness, but the kids looking on got a very important lesson in exactly why you don't put stuff on train tracks. I explained how a small piece of gravel the size of a pea is, for one of our miniature trains, like a huge boulder for a full-sized steam locomotive. husband helped with the repairs and the loco was back out on the track.
difficult child 3 did well, he helped with keeping the coal buckets filled until he was no longer needed, then he took himself off to chip slag off some freshly welded train track - nobody asked him to do this, it wasn't a work day, it was cold and he could have gone back to the car or into the members shed to keep warm. So I'm pleased with him.
We've come home driving through more rain, the drive along the coast road was shrouded in mist and the rainforest was much darker than usual.
Over the next few days I have to finish off the short film clip audition for easy child 2/difficult child 2 (and post it) which I think also requires her to print out and sign an agreement form from the 'Net as well as clip a coupon from the magazine application form. So I'll have to drive out to see her to do this. mother in law needs to go to te bank so I've offered to drive her on Tuesday, I'll arrange to meet up with easy child 2/difficult child 2 at the same time. There's also a good job advertised in the local paper that I'm pushing her to apply for (it gets her into her chosen career of teaching plus gets her out of her current job as checkout chick, a job she's hating right now because she has a boss who's a bully and doesn't know how to supervise staff).
What I've got to do isn't too onerous but it is going to take a certain amount of mental juggling to keep all the balls in te air at the same time.
Trish, if easy child 2/difficult child 2 gets this audition accepted, she could be working up near your neck of the woods for a few months. I'll have to see if she can move in with my brother's family for the duration, at least for the days when she would be working up there.
Enjoy your Sunday, everyone.
Marg
