DS2 has been obsessed the last couple days with a stopwatch that we got in a free games pack. We've let him play with it, no big deal. But DH set it down somewhere today, and now we can't find it and DS2 is having a meltdown. And of course, DH is having one as well, doing the whole "laying down the law" crap, which we all know works sooooo well with children with ASD, eh? 
So DH shouting and swearing, DS2 screaming and crying... DS3 unbelievably (thankfully) sleeping through it all. I'm trying to calm DS2 and telling DH to stop shouting and swearing as he's just making it all worse....
Yep... right old fun time here tonight. I need a drink.
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Triggles · 29/08/2011 20:16
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Triggles ·
29/08/2011 22:16
When (if???) we eventually find it... I will have to post and let you all know. 
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coff33pot ·
29/08/2011 22:38
Can I join in please just ate a frys choc cream but have baileys to share and plenty of ice
I have had one of THOSE days today so much so I have when someone mutters a sound a nervous twitch in my right eye like Captain Hook when tic tock the croc swims around so you could say I am on the brink
coff33pot ·
29/08/2011 22:56
yessssssssss thats the one Triggles
DH has just come in from work..............the twitch.............is back
intothewest ·
29/08/2011 23:00
I've just mucked up a post on another thread--I must be tired and emotional....hmmmm.
I am off to bed and will wait and see what tomorrow brings.
Part of it will be nice as meeting up with some other mums and their DCs(with SNs)
Part of it will be spent with my head down the sofa and under the Tv
..........and the rest with a frying pan in my hand !!
Welcome Coff
Goodnight all 
Triggles ·
29/08/2011 23:03
Goodnight intothewest. Hope tomorrow is better for you! (and all of us!!!)
I can see us all now... sitting there with a bottle of booze in one hand, chocolate and a frying pan next to us on the sofas... one eye twitching...
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coff33pot ·
29/08/2011 23:34
copper bottom ones are best
Hope the sun shines for you all tomorrow x
Triggles ·
30/08/2011 09:32
Oh my god - DH would come unglued if the remote was missing overnight!! He gets panicked if it's missing for 10 minutes!!! DS2 has a special fascination for that as well. Anything with buttons or numbers, eh?
Oh, and I FOUND the stupid stopwatch. It was in my handbag. Not a clue why. Neither DH nor I remember putting it in there at all. Odd.
But it's in my pocket now. Not losing it again.
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coff33pot ·
30/08/2011 16:45
Glad you found the stopwatch!
Relatively calm here in our manic household, eldest DD came home at silly o'clock in the morning after breaking up with BF (NOT a bad thing) so it was 4am after lots of hugs and sympathy before I went bed YAWN so I am glad all is calm as I am concentrating on not nodding off!
Middle DD has gone swimming with mates again, DH had some things to deliver so he was out of my hair and I could finally clear out his computer corner.
DS has did have a small hissy fit this morning because he wanted to know the name of the woman on his lego star wars game and couldnt understand why daddy didnt know because he had watched star wars. Dad trying to explain yes he had watched them but these are new ones BUT they are from the past not the future 
which went in one ear and out the other with DS and so he repeated the question of what is her name then thats on my game for the 25th time lol Mum rushes to internet and scours it to find the bloody womans name (Pedme for anyone who wants to know ) wisper it to dad who relays it to DS and peace reigns once again!
Triggles ·
30/08/2011 17:29
coff33pot - and sad me is thinking "Padme"? Padme Naberrie, better known as Padme (Queen) Amidala... well, that's it... I've been outed as a star wars fan.
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moosemama ·
30/08/2011 17:40
Glad the stopwatch turned up.
Sorry for my sharp exit last night - my stress seems to have manifested itself in my brain actually giving up and my neuro symptoms got worse and worse and culminated in a killer pain that meant I had to curl up and not move.
Been on the sofa under a duvet all day today, except for a couple of hours in bed while dd had her nap and the boys had extended ds time.
Not happy, not least of all because I haven't been able to do day 9 of the 30 day shred. Harrumph!
On a more positive note, the boys have been positively angelic all day and even supervised their little sister between them while they ate lunch.
Ds1 spent the whole lunch time saying "Ssssh! Daddy says Mommy needs to rest." over and over, then completely forgot at DS time while dd was napping, got carried away with his game and was whooping and squealing like a good 'un!
Coff33, ds1 is forever getting cross with me because I don't know who the characters in his Lego Star Wars DS game are. He keeps asking me all about Star Wars and I have trouble remembering stuff from the first three, let alone trying to get my head around the new ones. I was ridiculed when we were on holiday for not knowing that there's more than one JaJa - I though there was only JaJa Binks. [stoopid Mommy emoticon]
intothewest ·
30/08/2011 20:18
Hi- I neither know (nor care) about Star Wars...until DS gets into it of course !
SMUG- calm,deep breaths. Repeat'It will be fine'
My day has been o.k.-haven't needed the frying pan...yet.
I do have some beer,but no chocolate
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Triggles ·
30/08/2011 20:28
smug - oh my... I can see where that would be nerve wracking going back to work!!Best of luck to you.
I'm sitting here with more stress. DS3 crying, doesn't want to go to sleep, and DH pissed off because (as he puts it) "don't we get any time in the evening to relax??" Yeah, because a TWO YEAR OLD is thinking about that, right?!?! I may spend the evening upstairs tonight, as I'm tired of DH taking everything personally. We nearly had a verbal blowup in the middle of town today, so I told him to go away and cool off and I refused to speak to him until he did. argh... stroppy shit
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moosemama ·
30/08/2011 20:32
Into, neither do I, unfortunately ds1 has other ideas. Your time will come! Mwah! Ha! Ha! 
Smug, good luck tomorrow - you'll be fine. Imagine all that time with actual adults to speak to! 
I can imagine how nervous you are after over a year off. I've been off work since I went on sick leave at 24 weeks pregnant with ds1 - and he's 9 year and 4 months old now! I really need to come up with some way of earning money, but really need it to be part time from home. Which tends to limit my options a tad. Dd starts nursery September 2012 and I really will have no excuses left then.
moosemama ·
30/08/2011 20:34
Triggles, sorry to hear you've had more stress to deal with. My two year old is currently leading her Daddy a merry dance upstairs and refusing to go to sleep as well - must be something in the air.
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