Why is it that some days, despite doing everything just like always, just seem to start bad, and get worse as the day progresses? This has been one of those school days. My youngest has SPD - sensory processing disorder - which means that the world for him is a very complicated place. Everything is brighter, louder, more confusing than it should be - and his brain can't filter anything it takes in properly. This is one of the reasons we homeschool him, there's no way he can learn in a regular classroom environment. The problem is, some days it's hard for him to learn in any environment. Today was one of those days. He managed to finally get through his schoolwork (not that there was much today - we have therapy this afternoon and so schoolwork has to be light) but it took him all morning, which means I couldn't work with my oldest properly, and now we have to get ready to leave for therapy. I haven't even had the chance to get dressed yet! It doesn't help that my oldest is having a bad day as well. He went into meltdown over a blog he was trying to post. For some reason he wasn't able to pull together all the information he wanted to without getting "lost in all the words" as he put it. It's so frustrating for him - and it's frustrating for me to have my nine year old in tears over something that I can't fix. This is one of the curses of autism - some problems are "stuck" in "his world" and I can't cross over and make them all better - let alone be able to help him see what it looks like in "my world". It has definitely been "one of those days" - and unfortunately, it isn't likely to improve. Therapy always takes a lot out of my youngest - he's bumpy the rest of the day - and usually once my oldest is set off the rest of the day is shot.

It's not even noon, and I'm ready for bed... :) Well, thankfully with homeschooling, there's always tomorrow...

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