...is still clearly something i need to work on! i was trying to keep busy last week to keep my mind off of the impending doom of emily being home for 2 weeks! (i just sounded like the most horrible mother EVER there!) ugh, anxiety has been building for a couple of weeks now. since emily can't stand being in the same room as david without an extreme meltdown---and i'm talking the endless rivers of tears, snot, and drool mixed in with glass breaking screeching kind of meltdown--serious stuff...i didn't know how the hell i was going to make it through 2 weeks of that with out trying to jump through a window and running for my life! today-day one: really not horrible. i knew i was working myself up--it can't be helped, that's just the way i am. by the grace of all that's holy, their sleeping schedules worked out so that they literally spent all of a half hour with each other. not without its tears, but manageable. someone was looking over me! tomorrow i'm heading over to my mom's for the day, so i'll have an extra hand. i hope that the rest of the vacation is as uneventful as today was. i know it will not be a perfect two weeks, but i'll muttle through it. i'm almost looking forward to seeing her new neurologist on the first...maybe he can give me some insight on these tantrums...other than what i've already concluded--its normal, she's jealous, its her trying to integrate her senses. i think that that all of my theories fit into the puzzle somehow, but i just want to the poor thing to not have to go through such trauma! *deep breaths*
so here's what i did last week:
a post it holder made from an acrylic frige frame-got the idea from 
made a HUGE batch of cracked sugar cookies for emily's school, bus driver and bus aide
spray painted a frame and cut out a monogram to fill in a shelf that we just hung
made some thin mints(ritz crackers + melted andes candy)
made over some kitchen canisters-one has colored pencils and markers, the other has crayons
the cookies and miss chris' gift were a huge hit...that made my weekend :o)
Cookies are always a favorite! My 11 year old made some last week. He was so mad when everyone at them, leaving him with just a few!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck with the tantrums! That can be tough! There are times I've read Psalm 139-it reminds me that God put everything in them,He knows the plan He has for them. Then I call on Him to help because He apparently knows what to do when I certainly don't. After all, He created my sons. Whatever uglybug thing goes on in their behavior can be shaped into something beautiful!
Have a blessed day!
I love what you did with the kitchen canisters! So cute!
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