As I sit here this evening writing this my three kids are sitting in the family room playing with the boys trains. They are currently getting along, no fighting, screaming, crying or whining. Don't know how long that will last.
Wish I could say that today was a good day, but it was far from it. Our weekends have pretty much consisted in us staying home and not venturing out any where.It is hard to go out with all three kids knowing that at any moment either of the boys could go into complete meltdown mode (this is thanks to the autism) over the smallest thing. I know that I will end up chasing one of them, thankfully the baby isn't walking yet, cause they don't want to listen or have decided that they want to do their own thing. I know they don't understand what can happen and that scares and frustrates me even more. So with the fact we spend our weekends couped up in the house makes things so much harder.
I knew today was going to be a long and hard day when the baby decided she wanted to wake up at 6 this morning and not go back to sleep. So that means an early morning for me. I brought her back to bed with me since I was so not ready to even deal with anything else. The boys didn't get up till about 7:30, but the moment they came in my room they started their fighting. G my youngest started in with his whining and crying. When he starts that so early it really isn't going to be a good day. The boys started to fight over everything from one standing in front of the tv to one of them is taking the covers. They left my room and I thought they went into the play room. Boy was I wrong with that. I found them in the bathroom with the door closed. They wanted to brush their teeth but instead got toothpaste all over the sink and counter and they were messing with the mouth rinse. We finally managed to get downstairs where I heard them whining about breakfast and then started making demands on what they wanted. Last time I checked I wasn't running a restaurant here. Couldn't even make it through breakfast without G having a major meltdown and being sent to the corner for a time out. I can't even count how many times he was sent to time out before lunch. Lunch wasn't to bad, G and A fought over a couple of books while eating. Of course putting food in them def. fuels the arguing and bad behavior. It wasn't long after lunch that G ended up in time out again. You would think the kid would get it by now that his behavior and not listening will land him in time out, but he is just as stubborn as his daddy and just doesn't learn. Maybe one of these days before I completely lose my sanity he will get it. Decided it was nap time (or at least time to lay down and rest for a bit) around 2, so putting S down for her nap was no problem, she went right out. Let the boys watch a video in the play room, that didn't last long. By 3:30 or so G ended up in his room and was told to take a nap. I knew he really needed one cause of how he was acting. He finally fell asleep and slept for a while.
Now it is evening and so far things haven't been to bad. S is about ready to get her jammies on and get a bottle then to bed. The boys will be right behind her, but I know that is going to be a battle with G since he doesn't like to go to bed. The kid comes up with every excuse as to why he can't go to bed yet.
Here's to hoping that tomorrow will be a better day, but I doubt it.
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