A lot has happened since I last posted... and I apologize for not continue blogging for this past month, but I've been a little busy packing moving and keeping my sanity. Here's what's happening now...
To say that I'm exhausted is putting it mildly. Chaos doesn't even begin to describe what my life has become this past month and a half, my summer is gone and the new school year is about to begin. Where has time gone??? To the basement, literally...
Along with the titles of mother, housekeeper, cook, chauffeur, play mate, peace keeper, entertainer and nurse, you may now give me a well deserved title of carpenter AND painter. Yeah, that's right. I helped mud and paint the walls and I didn't even cry until the very last night when I stayed up until 2 am to paint, and until 3 am because I had to drive my girl home after she helped me finish painting.
The walls are up and painted, the bunk beds for the boys are set up, and our life with room mates begins...
We live in a large house, thank goodness as there are now two mothers, a 17 year old daughter, fifteen year old son with autism and ADHD, Dayton (ten years old with PDD-NOS, ADHD, global delays, OCD and ODD) and a 9 year old son, who's sharing the basement and bunking Dayton.
To say Dayton is struggling with the changes happening in our lives is putting it mildly. Glen has left for work to another province for six weeks, and the boy is going through daddy withdrawals. While I make sure Dayton gets to talk to his dad every day, it's just not the same as being able to see him and hang out with him. Dayton's extremely hyper, unable to focus, angry, stubborn, and becoming more and more self focused every day. Life is all about him now days, and it's driving everyone around us crazy.
Rules, rules and more rules. Dayton has many rules including what game to play and when with our new room mates and then to top it all off, in the midst of a game, he has a routine to follow and the rest of the kids best follow suit or lose their heads. Even my dear Lisa who's worked with Dayton for nearly 3 months now has tried her best to explain to the kids that Dayton is not used to sharing and that even at home he would play his playstation game in his bedroom while his dad played in the living room on line with him (dad's idea, not Dayton's, one of the many reasons I've had enough of our lives and decided to move).
Even through all the chaos, there is some good news in my health. My blood pressure, without any blood pressure medication has stabilized. Wow. If I had any self doubts as to whether I've made the right decision of moving, they're all gone now. I physically feel so much better, a wee bit tired from all the work behind us, and the work looming ahead of us, but I look forward to my new life.
Another change for my new life: I start my new job today. And yes, I'm working at another Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy... I'm a Shoppers girl, till death do us part. I love my job and the company I work for. Selling drugs legally has it's benefits :)
Consider yourselves hugged,
Lou
