So how's every-ones Half Term been?

I can't believe it's almost over already! We've had some highs and lows this week.  A beautiful day spent with family down the coast, rock climbing and abseiling, swimming and water slides, fun at a Home Ed social group with crafts and lots of play, our first Indian meal out together as a family (epic achievement given the huge food/ smell/ sensory issues of both DS and DD) - versus cross words, meltdowns and frayed tempers on a number of other day occasions too!  We are only human after all :-)

While DH has taken DD & DS out to the park (with their roller skates and skateboard) I have sat and written a list of all the things we have 'achieved' this week - which not only includes all the above but a number of tedious and extremely time consuming jobs around the home - including mountains of necessary paper work that have taken literally hours upon hours to wade through, installing some new guttering & a down pipe, juggling a myriad medical appointments and managing to secure a referral for DD to see a specialist we've been fighting for a long time.  We've also achieved some happy goals for the kids - DD got to spend the day at her best friend's house, DS got to make a huge bonfire with DH, DD finally got to roller skate along the sea front and DS conquered his fear of the big, yellow waterslide :-)  So, all put in perspective we have achieved a heck of a lot in one short (not yet over) week - so a few family arguments and a case of tonsillitis is all to be expected I guess :-)

One of my very favourite moments of the week was seeing some friends at rock climbing and having our lunch together.  Our friends went off to the cafe to get theirs and came back and sat at another table, near ours but not with us.  The mum came over to collect their coats and DS said "why are you not sitting with us?"  The Mum (love her :-) ) calmly explained she thought that DS may prefer some space and not have people eating their things around him but that if he would like them to sit with him, they would be delighted to do so.   DS said he would like this, so they moved over and joined us and we had a really fun time.  Later on, on the way home, I said to DS what a nice thing that was he did.  He said "I weren't bovvered at all. I didn' want them-a sit wiv' us but I thought every-one else would like it and I tole myself sometimes I just gotta get on wiv' it!"  :-) :-) :-)  Gotta love the honesty there :-)  No filter lol xx