Well, the title should say it all. It has been a busy few days around here with no end in sight. Great news though, my brother found a house and will be moving this weekend. God was truly shining on him and his wife because they found a landlord who didn't want a credit check and only wanted a $200.00 security deposite and $800.00 a month for rent. They guy is even letting them paint the place whatever color they want and having them take the cost off the rent. They truly lucked out on this place! If my brother can't see that the Lord has his hand in this, well, then I don't know how else to convince him of all the glory that God will share with us if we only are faithful.

   Today I have to take my middle DD to her psychology appointment. Right now she is in play therapy. It is suppose to help her find ways of learning to control her emotions and outbursts... I'm not sure about it but I'm willing to give it a try. If it doesn't work then these sure are some expensive play dates  

   My DH and I had a "parent meeting" with the doctor a week ago. The doctor asked us about our discipline approach and we told her we did timeouts with DD (she is only 7) and when timeouts didn't work we send her to her room. Discipline is hard to do with DD because of her ADHD. We can explain until we are blue in the face of why she is having a time out and what she did wrong and how she could have gone about it a different way, but the fact of the matter is that she can't understand it. And this is where the "play therapy" is suppose to work.

   Anyhow, this doctor told DH and I that timeouts are good but we should really think about letting "natural" consequences happen when she is behaving badly. So if your anything like DH and I, we both looked at each other and said, "huh?"  What the heck is a "natural" consequence for bad behavior? She goes on to say it would be better for her. So I ask what the "natural" consequence would be for DD if say she was argueing with her older sister after i told her not to and she kept argueing? Would the "natural" consequence be her sister punching her? get this, the doc said yes!!!! The doc said of course I would have to then punish the older child but yes, being hit would be the "natural" consequence. Can you believ that? It is nuts if you ask me. There is no way I'm following that technique. And I'm paying this woman to help us... what would be the "natural" consequence of her back talking me or hurting her baby brother or sister? There are cases where "natural" consequence just don't apply, so what do you do after that? WEll, this doc then told us to go ahead and do the time outs. If I'm still going to do time outs then why even let "natural" consequence occur? See, makes no sense, does it?

   After a bit, the doc got tired of me questioning the technique so she gave me a booklet, no kidding a booklet, on this whole "natural" consequence technique. Yeah right, like i have time in my day to read about crap I don't believe in, lol. I'll will read it when I have the time though just so I can see if I understand it a bit better.

    Baking. yes, I have been baking this week. It feels good to have the baking done. I made some more muffins for the freezer for winter use, well, autumn use, I don't think they will make it till winter, lol. I have made some more blueberry whoopie pies. and I have made some snickerdoodle sandwich cookies that i found in woman's day or family circle magazine. I'll post the recipe later. They sure are yummy! With it being so early this morning that I am up, I am hoping to get a chocolate chip snack cake made for the freezer and dessert tonight.

   School hasn't been going so well. With all the people in and out of my house i just haven't had the time to get the kids going. I have tried only to fail because someone visits during the afternoon or they ask me o watch their kids. I'll be glad when they have moved and are settled so I can get my family back on track.

    Ok, I'm off for some more coffee and for breakfast. Bye Y'all!