Ready to do it all over again ...

amber03

Starting to love Mondays, changed my hours in work and now have Mondays off. Today was spent at the zoo with DGD. Three day weekend love it.x

benbenandme

£6 withdrawn from a survey site, inching a bit nearer to my monthly aim for my brothers fund

A better day at work today although ds had a huge meltdown this morning as he dropped a bowl of Shreddies. It resulted in him having the day off school as he was in huge meltdown mode, whacking his head against a wall and then crying, sat rocking in the corner of the room. I ended up dropping him at Mums

Bath is done already, tonight will be spent chilling

Betterthanever

Bah to the bad day but hurrah for a chilled evening and free money x

benbenandme

£5 withdrawn from another survey site

Betterthanever

Excellent....I'm hoping for a similar report later today. Have a good one!

benbenandme

Last night was a great night footie wise, three points for us

Today ds and I are going on a train, he wants to do some filming at the station, I'll visit the shopping centre and then we'll have lunch and come home later

I do have housework and surveys to do a bit later too

benbenandme

So ds has had yet another huge meltdown, I'm shattered. I can't keep going like this. I'm ringing Camhs on monday morning (again) not that I think it will do much but somewhere there must be some help available

beanielou

Is there not an out of hours number that you can ring?
There does seem to be a great lack of support
Try to take care of you too.

Pooky

Sorry to hear about the melt down, is there anything in particular that sets him off? Hope you can get some support on this x

benbenandme

Even when I ring on monday they won't actually 'do' anything, they just log it on his file so it shows a history for his next appointment. He only has another appointment because the waiting list he's been put on for help is so long that he won't be seen for approx 18 months that they offer follow-up appointments in the meantime. It is a waste of time tbh, but I need to go to it. Sorry if I sound negative but I've seen so many others go through it from kids I've referred at school

Todays trigger went like this: ds wanted to go to another town to watch trains, then realised this morning he hadn't charged his camcorder. He didn't melt down about that though, we charged it and then went to a local train spot after lunch. All was going fine until a train came along and he didn't have time to switch the camera on to film it and it had whooshed past before he was ready. It wasn't even a special train, it was the bog standard local stopping service that goes each hour :cool:

He then walked off, text me saying he wasn't coming back, took about 45 minutes to find him and get him to come back to the car, then on the way home he decided to take his seatbelt off and refused to put it back on. I pulled into a car park and said I wouldn't drive without his belt on, he got out and said he was walking home. This all happened with him yelling at me / swearing at me / telling me I'm not even his mother / he's going to live with his Dad etc etc ... When he got home he went straight to his room and he finally came down here about 10 minutes ago. He said sorry, I asked him for what? and he said for existing, for making everyone so miserable, for being alive, for not having killed himself yet.

And so it goes on ....