It's been a while. We've had a fair bit going on it the Clark household.
Let me fill you in on the catastrophe that I call parenting. Beetle is now 5 1/2 going on 15. Emotionally fragile and dealing with quite a few complex emotions I can't even begin to understand.
We've had breakdowns at parties over cake, after school because she didn't want to leave the classroom for active reading time and at home because well.... We looked at her. That's right people, we LOOKED at her.
So we look to be coming out the other side of this, don't ask me how. I don't even really know what was going on for a lot of this phase, seriously I was 5 minutes away from calling a therapist.
We had a week off school with a cold, Lots of cuddles, favourite dinners and just major down time and would you look at that. Back to "normal".
Phew!
Now, Husband is stuck in job he quite frankly would like to see the back off but we are in the middle of a mining slump and if you've still got your job you are one of the lucky ones. So we soldier on, we wait for fly in day like it's the holy grail and when we see Daddy come out of the terminal we all cheer for joy and get ready to have whole week with Daddy. Yay!
Today is day 6, we are all tired the weather is terrible and we have 1 more sleep until Fly in day. Best day of the week! 3 seasons of My Little Pony and coffee mornings spur us on, we will survive we will get there.
Monster is turning 4 in October and is the complete opposite of Beetle. She is how my sister would say "A rager" my little rageoholic! The two major things she has control over in her life, food and toileting, she has chosen to use against me.
Now I have to say we have implemented a rewards chart and I don't want to get ahead of myself when I say "I think it's working" (knock on wood) but "I think it's actually working"
When it was looking like she was never going to use a toilet again. Never going to eat and or feed herself again. 1 little stuffed "Pinkie Pie" MLP has changed the game.
She wants that Pony, she wants it bad. I have the power! YES!
Throw in the power of a rainbow coloured lifesavers ice block as a treat for going number 2's and we have a formula that cannot fail!! (knock on wood again).
You see I don't want to jinx myself but I m pretty confident.
So you see it's all been a little bit stressful around here but we've been soldiering on.
It's nothing that a thousand other families are struggling with also. So if I've said it once, I'll say it again... ask your friends and family how they are doing regularly. Sometimes all we need is for someone to just listen.
Until next time, be good to one another.
Stacey xx
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