I’m trying to catch up with your blog!… could take a while I’ve been off line for a month!! Love your stuff! Keep up the good work!

She’s BAAAACK! Welcome back! I’ve missed reading you! Yes, the bathtub is a salvation, for sure. I’m glad you are back, friend.

You are not alone.

K2 has wacky sensory issues, but is otherwise a completely “normal” child (what is NORMAL anyway?). I have to buy her seamless socks or all heck breaks lose in our house… do you know how hard it is to find seamless socks? Thank you Stride Rite. This is finally starting to improve now that we are almost 8. I think there are always battles to wage… let’s hope they just get easier as time goes on.

For the recycled paper issue…. we have two kinds of recycled paper, printed on and scrap pieces. I use the printed on to go back through the printer for un-important items, etc… we use the scraps (from projects, scrap-booking, school art projects, etc… to make NEW art projects. You might try this, so you have non printed paper and therefore don’t tweak the senses of little C. It could even become a choice (if you are brave) “Do you want to use printed recycle paper or scrap paper today?”

It always cracks me up when we are out in public and I stick to my guns with wacky Little Critter (my major button pusher) and get kudos from people. The school counselor commented on how well I handled choices with her… the choice was to put shoes on and walk or to be carried. Staying put wasn’t an option… even though that was what she wanted to do… (so good for you for giving choices and expecting that C select and then follow!).

Good days happen… Bad days happen… Then we get a fresh start the next day.

I won’t share our “wipes” story… its really disturbing. Let’s just say Little Critter went through a phase of wearing jammies on backward all day so she couldn’t unzip them and take them off… because I was sick of the messes. Now we are on to picking the nose in bed and causing bloody noses. Why oh why… Can’t wait until this phase passes. It is a phase… right?

Good idea on the paper - will have to try THAT choice! I can only imagine what was going on with your wipes story - we used to safety pin C into his jammies so he wouldn’t get in there and do “poop art” in weird places. I never thought that would end. And we too are in the bloody nose on the sheets phase. Like you, I hope it’s a phase. My Mom assures me they all are.

Well, you would THINK I was asking the impossible, for all the fighting (on his side, anyway, I just mostly calmly stick to my guns) that goes on around here! I am laughing about it today, however.

It wasn’t funny at the time, but it quickly became so! The wipes drive me nuts, but the alternative of having him do it completely independently is far, far more disturbing! LOL!

Thank you, I think I needed a little reassurance on that front! I question that stuff constantly. And can I have red AND white???