I didn't realise it'd been so long, guess I've been busy .
Arte, yes, thankyou, I hit my FIVE YEARS (yay) which is lovely but also sad because so many of the lovely ladies I met that year are now struggling with advance diagnoses . Just a reminder how damn lucky I was.
Arte, I LOL'd at gypsy day! I think all that planning is really sound and it will minimise the impact of the change. Let us know how you get on re the anxiety meds. It must be so wearing. . BTW I also wanted to say - if you want to work, go for it. You may be able to negotiate flexible hours so the school pickup isn't so much of an issue, or organise someone to have the kids for a day or two after school. Lots of people manage with cobbled together arrangements, and it's more daunting when you're thinking about it than when you're actually doing it, kwim?
I was complaining for a while re E's moods - I think a lot of it with her is cumulative tiredness and the strain of holding her worries in all day (at school) and then home is the release valve. She's been a different kid on holidays. Also, I started a Whine Jar, which is like a swear jar but you have to put 50c in if you're heard complaining. It's only got $1.50 in and it's 3 weeks later so I'd say it's working. (Although one time she had the choice of 50c or running five laps around the garden and she chose the laps and it switched her out of it
Cass, I hope you've enjoyed your hols & and it did you all the world of good. Congrats on your new job, yay for working @ home. I'm teleworking a day or two now and love it although like you say the social stimulation in the office offsets the boring-er tasks LOL.
We had a lovely Christmas, my sis and niece flew down so it was two weeks of loveliness. Followed by a brush with bushfire (& accompanying sleep deprivation) just before I went back to work so I was dead on my feet this week. All good now though. I didn't hear anything except happy giggling for two weeks) so the rest of the holidays are going to be an anticlimax LOL.
Anyway, I hope everyone is (already) having a Happy New Year.
Hi MD! I have been meaning to reply to this for ages, but the holidays seem to be one long continuous day lol.
E's behaviour pattern sounds pretty similar to W with the anxiety building up out and about and venting out at home. W is totally amazing atm, just so nice and thoughtful and creative. It is how he should be all the time. Another of the scouts kids is like W - was perfect at school and his mother couldn't convince them that he needed help yet at home he was having actual panic attacks in the morning about school. There are some basic yoga-ish moves for relaxation that they showed W that you might be able to sell to E as an after school de-stress thing maybe?
Is teleworking from home?
We have just been pottering around with the old couple of days camping here and there. It is going to be a rude shock when school goes back and we have to be up and ready with lunch boxes done etc by 8am. It is going to hit A very hard - she has never been a morning person. It will be an unpleasant ride for a while there I think lol
Hi Arte - yoga-ish things sound great and I'm sure E would get a lot out of it. She is such a cool cucumber at school, the teachers look at me like I've got two heads when I say she's been anxious. I don't know how she'll go this year, they've split the class up again, and she's back in with her little friend who's got ??? special needs - they adore each other but she tends to take on the responsibility of steering this other kid around. And he can be hard work at times, she absorbs and puts up with a lot in order to be a good friend. Anyway, we rolled into the new class this morning and the teacher has sat her at a table with adores-each-other-but-hard-work-kid on one side and no-love-lost-kid-who-bopped-her-on-the-head-in-reception on the other side and kinda had a WTF moment right there. Needless to say, I think I'll need to word the teacher up to make sure Miss E doesn't become the new unsalaried teacher's aide.
And yes, teleworking is the career-promoting way of saying working from home LOL. The powers have worked out they can save a gazillion dollars by letting people work more flexibly, and it's been a real bonus. There's a bit of a trend in that direction and I think it benefits women with kids plus anyone else who's got more balls in the air other than just working.
MD, I will hunt out the yoga-ish things and send them to you. And far out - when did H change from a gangly kid to a grown up young woman?!
W got a molar tooth pulled out the other day. I feel terrible about it - he was supposed to have it for another 4ish years. It had a hole before christmas and I didn't know until he complained it was sore so they medicated and filled it and it worked for a month but obviously it was already infected so it started to abscess so they had to take it out. Tooth fairy pays extra guilt money lol
Good luck with the return to school, Arte! Bugger about W's tooth - H had one pulled around a similar age, no harm done in the end. But the mummy guilt was pretty heavy at the time, so I recall.
Cass, I've had that I-so-answered-this-recently feeling a few times as well. Sign of a busy, well-filled life. How's Miss L going with school this year? As I recall the transition was a little rocky, hope it's all smoother now.
Miss E seems to be happy with her new teacher and class but she's been a rotter at home, so I'm not sure what that's all about. She doesn't have many kids from last year's class in this year's class but I saw some of them lining up to hug her this afternoon as we left, so not too much social damage there! I haven't really met the teacher, she is sooooo not chatty like last year's teacher, but E seems to like her and she's got some good (visible) classroom strategies already. So that seems all good there.
Could she just be tired MD? The end of the first week back is going to be a killer here with all three tired and over it. Especially Miss A - I have tried getting her up at 7am but she still stays up until 10pm either mucking around quietly in bed or screaming that she isn't tired. I am hoping that full school days will exhaust her enough to get her to sleep earlier. She has always been a night owl since she was a tiny baby and daylight savings doesn't help.
W was a rotter today too. Not sure if it is because he knows it is last days of holidays or because I said we were going to Dunedin tomorrow. Going to another town generally sets off some sort of meltdown but not usually until just before we leave. Hopefully he got it out of his system because I am not keen to do three kids in the car by myself for 1.5 hours if he is being a toad.
Cass, are my double spacings bothering you? I read the article but it is so ingrained now that it can't be stopped. Now that I have looked I see that it is an oddity and every thing else I read is single spaced. I wonder why it doesn't autocorrect? Perhaps someone should send the article link to the autocorrect developers.
How did L go at school?
I can't believe how big all these kids are in the 'first day of year x' photos appearing all over FB!
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. Just a reminder how damn lucky I was.
. BTW I also wanted to say - if you want to work, go for it. You may be able to negotiate flexible hours so the school pickup isn't so much of an issue, or organise someone to have the kids for a day or two after school. Lots of people manage with cobbled together arrangements, and it's more daunting when you're thinking about it than when you're actually doing it, kwim?
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