Yep. Bad holiday so far - DD (17) has done bugger all except go out to a few parties. Her laptop charging point fried itself last night, so now we're looking into getting her another one - it's no biggy, as we were thinking of getting her another for her 18th in October, but it'll be a shame for her to get it and then not get anything much on her actual birthday.
DSs (7 & 5) both have autism, and practically every single activity I've done with them has gone really badly. Trips to the park, to go out to softplay, to the miniature railway, and this morning, ten pin bowling, have all resulted in major meltdowns meaning we've had to come home. We've baked a few times, but DS2 just wants to do more, so keeps getting in to the kitchen (despite it having a lock on the door) and tipping all the baking ingredients into a bowl and wasting them. I tried painting with them today - it lasted about five minutes and they just ended up painting on each others' paintings, and DS2 ran off almost immediately, after having spent all morning trying to get into the pack of paints and stamps. This week I've tried just taking one out at a time, but even that's impossible - DS2 had a harness on, and still managed to escape and run out of the playground a fair way before I caught him up. (I have chronic fatigue issues - much better now, but I'm in the process of losing loads of weight now I'm mostly recovered, but even that chase meant I crashed out when we got back.)
We can't even let DS2 out in the garden, as he's climbed the fence 4 times in the last couple of weeks, despite being supervised, and got into next door's garden. On one occasion, he managed to get down to the end of the road to the garage, and steal a magazine before we found him.
I'm really at my wit's end now, and on the verge of walking out and never coming back. Of course I wouldn't actually do it, my DH is just too wonderful. But it was difficult when he had 2 weeks off work - now he's trying to work in the dining room, so it's just me and the boys and it doesn't seem to matter what I try, I can't keep them amused AND safe.
We had one successful trip to a softplay place, but DH was with me so we took a child each, and it was indoors, with an autistic support group. But even when I've taken just one DS to a support group event, it's been disastrous, so I just feel like I can't take them out, and I can't keep them in, as they get bored and climb the walls. I was so looking forward to spending some time with them but it's just been fucking horrible. Roll on, September.