There are days that you want to frame and remember forever, and then there are days you want to throw out and pray you are just sleeping and having a nightmare. I think we’ve had more of the second type of days lately then the first. But what can you do? All you can do is to keep moving forward and hope that tomorrow brings you better memories.
The biggest hurdle with the boys lately is they refuse to go to sleep at bedtime and then rebel when its time to do school work. It makes for a vicious cycle. No one sleeps well and no one learns.
This morning my “special” monkey went back to speech therapy after over a month off. This meant early wake up this morning. All I can say is he did better than Daddy did (who takes him each week)!! We started our school day earlier today and got the talking part of our assignment finished. Sure you are thinking “So how can that be bad? Its all moving nicely over there!” I wish your thoughts were correct. The problem is he has to Copy over his assignment now from the whiteboard to the paper!!!! It took 45 minutes for the date and 2 words to be written. At this rate it will be DAYS before we finish. We have already figured out where Mommy will finish the copying over (our tag teaming) but we are FAR from that point in the assignment. Needless to say that I have started to lose my patience that I try to recharge over night. We have wiggling, whining, complaining, laying on the floor (we started by being comfy on the floor this morning) and now, playing with the kitty (who belongs to Mommy but somehow has been taken over by this particular monkey).
So how do I get through days and weeks like this (especially with 4 other monkeys jumping on the bed)??? Today I look forward to my weekly visit to the chiropractor. I drag which ever kids are at home with me and we all get adjusted. She works my nerves and calms me back down. This monkey has his own treatment that he gets. Along with his regular spinal adjustment, our chiro works on his brain. I can’t tell you exactly what she does but all I know is the few minutes he is laying on the table I see him go from crazy, restless and out of control, to sudden calmness. Its those few minutes each week that I look forward too. Our drive home is painless and usually it goes into the afternoons.
So here is where I leave you. Ready to take the 3 boys to visit our favourite chiropractor (who is also from the great white north like Me) and a chance for us to have a better, more peaceful afternoon. (Oh and to hoping our last writing assignment for this set of test papers gets finished!!!)