The extremes are so hard.

Duders was horrible today. The complete opposite of last week. Poor kid had trouble at school, couldn't focus on what he should have been and had two accidents.

I should have known better than to take him to a grocery store after school but we needed something for dinner and what else to do? I figured we'd be in and out quickly, I know where everything is and it's not really busy on Monday afternoon.

Holy crap what a mistake that was. Screaming fits ensued with pinching and biting to follow. It's like my boy, the one we know and love, just isn't there anymore. You can see it in his eyes, they're empty. And the looks and comments! Crud people, get a life, or help if you think it's bad enough. Especially the employees. Manager got an earful tonight for one of his wonderful, friendly *cough cough* bakery staff members. Nothing like leaving a store in tears for feeling so helpless and out of control.

And what's with the older one! The attitude lately has been so bad. And the temper tantrums! We tried to take them to the park yesterday (Sunday) after seeing MIL in the hospital. But when she didn't get her ice cream, when she demanded, the fits started. I ended up carrying Kenny to the van and Hubby was carrying Maddy. She was trying to choke him the whole way with her screaming. Kenny was doing his best trying to bite me. Do I want to go back now. No, but somehow we have to teach them that when it's time to go, it's time to go, period.

Well how bout that eh, they finally issued a thunderstorm warning (or watch, I haven't checked yet). So I'd better sign off before Maddy panic's. Blah, Calgon take me away!

Really good day!

Wow, these are so rare, I just had to share. Kenny had an excellent day today! From the minute he woke up, to, well he's still up but that is not surprising lol.

He had an excellent day in school. Not only didn't argue going, went right in, took off his boots and coat and ran right into the classroom!!!!! Holy crap!!! He hasn't done that consistently in so long. And this was the second time in a row! And not only that but he had no accidents all day! So he was still wearing the same underwear and pants that I put him in this morning! My God in Heaven! What an accomplishment that is! (Wow, and what a accomplishment that I actually spelled the work accomplishment on the first try! lol) Of course right now he has decided to poop in his night time pullup. Gotta love the grunts.

But that is all for today. It was a really, really good day for Kenny. His older sister, not so much. But Kenny deserves a big pat on the back!

May 2-4 Weekend!!!

It's the un-official start of summer! And would you believe it, it's cold and wet. Figures, but hey this means that all the painting and stuff we've been meaning to get around too, is finally getting done. I spent over an hour this morning trying to finalize our paint colours for the living room/dining room. Something that will go nice with the kitchen colour, flow nicely between the two rooms and can continue into the entrance way. And I think I've found it. The light colour is called stone hedge and the dark accent colour is buckhorn. Very earthy browns/taupes. Looks good together, so I hope that it looks just as good on the walls here.

I have also managed to get a large 10 x 12 garden dug out in the backyard. We have beans, 2 types of squash, zucchini, carrots, pumpkin, sunflowers, chives and baby tomatoes all ready to go. I also have some potatoes that have gone to root, so I'm going to try to plant those as well. Nothing to lose, right?

The front is finally done with all the digging. The city has finally shown up and fixed their water pipe. So now we are left with a huge pile of topsoil and a large yard of dirt. That is until it rains and then it is just a sea of mud. I have bought a few plants (perennials) and have a good idea of what I want to do with the garden. Of course the one thing stopping us from getting everything done is the lack of money growing on the money tree.

Well as for Kenny, he is doing good. We just finished another virus that had attacked his stomach and intestines (happy Mother's Day for me) that forced us to go back to using pull-ups. Poor kid was sharting. You know, a fart with a surprise in it. But we are now back in underwear and, crossing fingers, seem to have not forgotten. We are still waiting for the Dr to assess him and until we get the assessment can't apply for the therapy that he needs. But at least we have the school on track with him. We have an appointment set up to meet with the school, a daycare teacher (hopefully Sarah), the Trellis worker, Lidia and Jen his speech therapist. It's nice to see everyone on board and willing to try to help him, not shove him to the side because he's slightly different than other kids. Sleep is still hard for him. He is still getting up, usually between 2-4 am to come into our bed. I usually get up and leave not long after cause even sleeping, he doesn't stay still. Kenny's car bed is actually quite comfortable.

Because of the lack of news, whether it be good or bad, I'm going to sign off now. Keep smilin, let them guess what you're up too!

Nothing new

When it comes to Kenny anyway. We are still waiting for the appointment with the specialist in Hamilton. So nothing new to report. He has his days, that's for sure. Lately it's not good. But crossing fingers that he has some better one's ahead.

Now to update on the front yard. Yes the sewer pipe is fixed. Yes we had started to get it prepared for a garden and grass seed. Then, the water shut off valve went. So we now have a water feature in the form of a quick moving stream running down our front yard mud, onto the sidewalk, across the neighbours driveway and down the road. Isn't that lovely?

It's amazing too on how many people are angry at us for letting this go on for so long. We have reported it to the county, they know about it, have been out and painted two blue lines and yesterday a yellow line on the mud.....

Yep that's it. In almost two weeks that's it. But we are still catching hell from people. Get a damn life. If it was our responsibility we would have had it fixed immediately. But it's not. The county is responsible. I was joking about the trailer park trash thing, but I guess some aren't looking at it as a joke.

But on the up side, one neighbour came over and offered a pile of topsoil for free! Whoo hoo, that will save us so much money! It is now sitting in the front yard, under a tarp, until we can fix everything up to use it.

Fun times I'm telling ya!