Four Wonderful Years

On Tuesday I had a brief meeting with Matthews teacher while he was at football practice regarding his possible ADHD.

We went through his personal profile and a checklist of things that we find he does or does not do and how regularly certain things occur.

Matthews teacher has a very good understanding of my son! I am really impressed. I am also really pleased that she IS going out of her way to help him if she can. She is a good teacher, Matthew loves her and I see why. On his paperwork she sees him as a caring generous child but his main problem is keeping still. On the large section about anger, temper, nasty to other children, fighting and anything else similar to being an aggressive child, every box was ticked as "Never" so I am really pleased with that. It just seems to be problems with sitting still, he has to fidget, he has to fiddle, his teacher often feels she is losing his attention. I can vouch for Matthew having the attention span of a goldfish. The times I repeat myself over the simplest things. "Matthew put on your shoes" "Matthew, have you got your shoes on?" "Matthew, you still don't have your shoes on" "OK, so we're going to school without shoes today then are we?" I have to have everything super organised for him. He has no organisational skills whatsoever and I feel that at almost 8 this is a problem. Some days, it's harder work having Matthew than 2 toddlers.

Anyway, the ball is finally rolling in getting some more help and advice on how to address some of these problems better.

I am no supermum, I admit at times I really lose my temper with him. I shout and have a go when I know he's not doing it deliberately, it's just so frustrating that I feel like I am a broken record or banging my head against a brick wall!

Liam is a funny little soul at the moment. His speech is getting clearer and upon clearing out cupboards the other day Liam was impressed by a bottle of Calpol (UK version of Tylenol I believe) and looked intently at the bottle before loudly declaring "I like dat!" with a big smile on his face.

James is a funny little guy in his own right. He's discovering his OWN sense of humour. Today he couldn't walk past his playgroup for laughing so much as the kids were holding the gate shut. They were all playing and James found it hilarious. Bless him. We finally told the playgroup yesterday that we will not be returning after christmas. I feel a little guilty with them having the threat of closure but I want to get the kids in our local school before the rush if it does close later next year.

I'm less annoyed with my mother than I was the other day. I still think I should have been told but I know my problems with my mum are nothing in comparison to many others.

Four years ago today I met my lovely husband. In a way it feels much longer, but that's because we've crammed so much into a short time. We've done more in these 4 years than some people do in much larger number of years. A wedding, two sons, moving to the country, lost 3 grandparents between us, numerous job changes, periods of unemployment, a childs operation, a diabetes diagnosis and so much more along the way. Madness!