Busyknitter

Status report - Summer holiday 2006 Phase 2 now complete.

 Phase 1 was the first fortnight when Mr. BK went to the States for a jolly and I looked after the kids at home (and took them to Ali’s for a very ASDfriendly couple of days). That was quite fun and i really, really didn’t want to go back to work.

Phase 2 has been the long slow haul in the middle with me back at work and Mr. BK holding the fort at home. T went into respite each day in the first week, but his carer has now been away for nearly a whole fortnight. It’s not been as bad as we’d feared and we broke the time up by me having some extra leave and takng the boys to Suffolk for a long weekend. Also some very dear friends from Montreal who we haven’t seen for 5 years turned up out of the blue for a visit. And we were helped by a horde of Vikings invading from York.

S has had what you might call an indolent holiday. He’s seen a school friend a couple of times and we have managed to drag him out of the house for one activity or another most days. But he has managed to squeeze in a heck of a lot of slobbing about in between.

 T has rediscovered that going for walks is fun. He has also developed a serious sandal fetish (we are finding them all over the house). And he has learnt that spreading soap over the bathroom floor turns it into a fantastic skating rink.

So, respite starts again tomorrow, there’s a bank holiday weekend coming up and then it’s the last week. In which we have to sort out uniforms for both boys, plus school shoes and (arrrgh!) haircuts. Somehow T’s hair is always a maternal duty. So much for role reversal, eh.