I think. I may need to recalculate that whole countdown thing. Obviously, I am not qualified to be The NASA Countdown Guy. That's ok, though. I've got a full-time job for the foreseeable future.
The walls are now bare, and our photos have been lovingly stuffed into an old computer box, surrounded by the sordid news of the last month.
Craft stuff has been dutifully dusted off and packed away.
Many, many bags of trash have bloomed and are beginning to ripen in the Spring Packing Frenzy. All systems are "go".
The children, however, are beginning to mutate. So far, the small one seems to be the least affected. He has three moods: happy, sad, irritated. Today he added "clingy". Of course, he was also in bed by seven thirty! (Choirs. Angels. The whole thing. It was lovely.)
The other two, though. Whew. Not sure I'm going to weather this storm terribly well. It's not that they've been bad, they've just been, well, weird. OK, there, I said it. My children did weird things today, and I don't know how to handle it. (Not weird, as in, throwing-feces-at-the-neighbors weird, just uncharacteristic-of-their-normal-behavior weird.) I'm disappointed in their choices, love them dearly, and hope to God they will someday be able to explain their behavior. This is what I told them, as well. Still no reasonable explanation from them. Ghost Winds, anybody?
So, if things progress at this rate, we're going to have to increase fruit rations and begin sedation sometime around Monday. Shortly after Zorak leaves for work.
(Recipient of sedation is classified information. I could tell you, but then I'd have to sedate you, too. Sorry.)
Zorak's Highlights of the Day:
~pulling up cost of living comparison calculators, and laughing
~comparing the cost of having movers move us vs. what-we're-doing-now, and finding that to be incredibly motivating!
Kiss those babies!
~Dy
2 comments:
Those children in the cute Easter outfits couldn't possibly do anything wrong, Dy! Well, at least they wouldn't throw icky things at fences!!! I will pray for you tonight - for patience and wisdom and the right choice of sedation.
Warmly,
Diane
Hang in there- they are bound to be a bit on the wierd side, as they are moving again after only 16 months.
One thing that helped us was giving each of them a box and letting them pack their own things- 'course I had to go through it before I taped it up, because my food-hoarding ds thought he better make sure *HE* packed food just in case I didn't, and he put apples and grapes in with his stuffed animals, sigh and grin.
It sounds to me like they are doing great for as fast as this is all happening around them.
Sending loving thoughts, patience and extra sedation, umm, I mean hugs for you and the littles your way.
Hang in there, baby!
LB, who never, ever wants to move again.
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