I was so sleepy last night I went to bed at around 8, I couldn’t even stay up to watch the end of Survivor, Miss W promised to switch off all lights. I fell straight off to sleep but was awoken at 3 by the sound of Number 2 plodding around in his room.

Was I really calling him angelic a short while ago? Scratch that, he’s been really difficult this weekend, he is bound and determined to be completely naked at all times. Chasing him down and getting him dressed again over and over is exhausting. He continued plodding around for 50 minutes and then started crying so I got up at 3.50 and let him out of his room and made myself some tea, not saying much because I was so tired and thinking it’s been so long since he’s given me a bad night, please don’t let this be a regular thing again. After about 30 minutes, he dashed into my bedroom, dragging his quilt, and rolled himself up in my rug. I crawled into bed and finished my tea and then realized – he had fallen back asleep! So I had another few hours sleep too, it was wonderful. When he woke up I asked him for a kiss but he smiled and got into bed beside me! Beds are definitely not Number 2′s thing and he just lay there grinning while I snuggled him, but this was the last cute thing he did today.

Pants ON!!!

It has just been a never ending process of putting his pants back on, then having them pulled off again almost before my back is turned, I’ve confined him to his room, done everything I can think of . . . nothing has worked. It’s like his meds aren’t working anymore. What has happened to the calm boy of last week who let me watch a movie???

Saw my TC nurse this morning and she brought piles of gifts, then Miss W’s counsellor came over with yet more piles of gifts!! The pile under the tree is really growing. I remembered to take the turkey out of the freezer and then went off to Bennett as I’ve been using up lots of eggs and cheese, needless to say Number 2 was difficult in King Soopers. It is just so disappointing when he gets like this but has been through a period of being really calm and reasonable. . His behavioural therapist came over this afternoon so at least I was able to talk about it, she just said that even if putting him in his room didn’t seem to be working right now, keep doing it as consistency is important. I’ve got work tomorrow and am a bit concerned about leaving him all day with someone from TTR, I called them and let them know what was going on.

I did manage to wrap some gifts up today and all the families (or maybe just the ones headed by single parents) in this community were given a food basket. Maybe I could do the ham on New year’s Day.

Mignon, are you reading this? Your second parcel arrived today – I’ve been reading the Hello! magazine. Tried to call you yesterday but your phone was busy.