Barbara came over after dinner this evening. Well, it turned out to be after dinner, hair cut and shower, as well.
Max had a great evening. The only troublesome dinner behaviors were attempts to monopolize the conversation and some table pounding. Hair cut and shower went pretty well, even though he had to shower a second time due to not getting the hair from the haircut off of himself the first time. He finished putting on pjs just as Barbara showed up.
While Barbara was here, he showed her some art work he'd done at camp the week before last, then he and Davan played for a while (that hasn't been happening lately at all!). He ate a piece of watermelon, brushed his teeth and lotioned his hair. All without complaining or fit throwing or attempts to go out the window or threats.
Then he played video games for about 10 minutes before it was bed time.
If all our evenings were like that, or even most of them, we wouldn't be disrupting. I told Anthony that it makes us look like freaks. But, oh well. Does it really matter if we look like freaks? It'll all be over soon. I hope.
Moments of normalcy (is that a word) were the hardest thing for me. Second-guessing what we were doing.
ReplyDeleteThen the light would come on and we would see threw the facad (again...is that a word) and the 'show' that was being put on.
Don't get me wrong there were 'days' when we had 'good' moments. However, they were very few and far between.
(((cyber hugs))
gala