It's Spring Break! Our Spring Break is *just like* Spring Break on MTV. Except my kids don't even need a beer bong to get naked and pee themselves. They're just wild and crazy like that naturally. Also, instead of being exhausted from stumbling from one bar to another, my kids will be exhausted from child labor helping me lay mulch in the garden.
Even without the "voluntary" garden assistance, my kids are going to be pretty tuckered out this Spring Break. Normally, our Spring Break agenda goes something like this:
1. stay in jammies
2. eat
3. play
4. sleep
It's great.
This Spring Break, however, we have an insane amount of activity scheduled. Tomorrow alone we have two doctor's appointments and a birthday party. I should note that the birthday party is at our house. It's the double-digit, double-themed party for my ten-year-old twin daughters.
It's unclear to me why I scheduled two separate doctor's appointments on the same day as their party. Probably some of this scheduling happened before I started taking the ADHD meds. As I've noted before, the Adderall doesn't retroactively fix the stuff I messed up prior to being medicated.
Cookie and the Pork Lo Maniac's party is one of four parties my kids will be attending in the space of five days. I find it annoying that their social life is so much better than mine. I would schedule some social activities for myself, but I'd probably have to subtract sleep from my schedule in order for that to happen. So, you know, never mind.
One of the parties was this past weekend -- a sleepover birthday party involving six fourth-grade girls. The giggling went on until the wee hours for most of the girls. Not so much for Cookie, because Clonidine really drowns out the giggling, apparently. But the the Pork Lo Maniac was by turns weepy, cranky, and punch-drunk the entire next day.
Ah, Spring Break. Who needs Cancun?
I just found your blog because my friend Katie suggested it. I have a new blog crush. :) I am just glad to read someone else's experiences with a daughter on the spectrum. And I hope my mom sees katie's post on my Facebook so she can follow the link and read your top ten list from Thursday to see all the "don'ts" that she & my dad have used already. :) goodnight from St. Louis.
ReplyDeleteAaaaaaaaaahhh! You have fed my addiction to your blog so well! I was seriously having withdrawals there for a while. Wait... what? oh. Right. Commenting. So, should I offer you condolences on the dr appt/bday party hell day NOW, or do you want me to wait until you post about it? ;)
ReplyDeleteIt's these Spring break posts I keep seeing popping up on blogs that make me thankful ours has been reduced to only Good Friday. I only have one day I have to manage the boys on my own and everyone still has to have all limbs intact when my husband gets home from work.
ReplyDeleteThat's hilarious, and Happy Birthday to your girls. We had Spring Break, 10 lovely days of it, right here at home and now the kids are off again Friday through Monday, don't know what I will do with them, the yard is already mulched.
ReplyDeleteHave a great time.
Aah if only someone could come up with something to do the "retroactive fix". They could make a fortune!
ReplyDeleteYou are still doing better than me...I usually realize that I scheduled multiple appointments, parties, whatever, AFTER the people start calling me to ask why I MISSED the appointments or whatever. Adderall, you say?
ReplyDeleteSpring break. I never used to mind it before, because we home schooled and never took more than three days off at a time (because doing so would totally throw off our son's behavior - his Aspergers means that routine is our friend). THIS year, the kids are back in public school. NOW I understand why public school moms aren't nearly as excited about spring break as their kids are. Normally I have Monday mornings blissfully to myself. Not so today, and the rest of the week looks equally "kids in my face"-ish. I should have planned more activities. I see some yard work in our future. . . . (And probably some wine for me.)
ReplyDeleteI <3 pajama days!
ReplyDeleteWE don't have enough planned for this break. A trip to the zoo maybe (SIL has membership) and Friday hitting up Autism day at Sesame Place. I'm dreading that actually. UGH.
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to convince my husband that our triplets (GGB) need to have friend birthday parties. They are 9 now and have never had a sleepover or play date with school friends. I know you have a busy day, but you are doing awesome things for your girls. I know very much how busy your life is. You rock for making sure they are getting that social time. I think a nap the next day is a small price to pay! Hats off to you.
ReplyDelete"...the Adderall doesn't retroactively fix the stuff I messed up prior to being medicated."
ReplyDeleteSo TRUE! It does, however, help me implement many plans I have outlined prior to being medicated and never acted upon!
I really hate the post-sleepover drama. I hate it so much that we've actually had "something else to do" the last few times my daughter's been invited to one, so as not to deal with the three days of recovery time she needs following the overnighter. Lest anyone think I'm mean, she's actually on board with this. Sleepovers stress her out and raise her anxiety level above what drugs can help her cope with, so she's ok with this--as long as her friends don't know that mom won't let her go! :)
ReplyDeleteClonidine for children with ADHD is horrible. Is she taking a 12 hour medication during the day? Maybe an 8 hour would be better for her. Then she wouldn't need the sleeping aid.
ReplyDeleteI had 11 ten year old girls for my girl's party on Friday night. I survived. It's all I could hope for. ;-)
ReplyDeleteIt seems you guys know how to live it up. Good for you all. Live life to the fullest my friends.
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