Not a good week for my big boy

My son has had quite a hard time over the last few days. Due to his borderline autism he does not really understand social rules and tends to annoy or provoke his classmates. Yesterday he had mud thrown at him, and today I had to witness how another boy pushed him to the ground. Normally my son never tells me anything, but I can tell that something is wrong when he pretends to be ill so that he can stay at home. I am talking with him about different situations and how to react, but he often forgets what I told him. Hopefully it will get a bit better with age.

Not much else is new here. Just got rained upon while feeding the bunnies. It's a mild but wet week. A repeat of the 2007 Grammy Awards is on right now. Great to see the Police back on stage. They even promised to do a tour. Have to see if we can get tickets, Alistair's cousin is playing drums for the band. I saw Sting in concert twice, and he was great.

School photos

For all of you who have not seen photos of my boys lately, here are this year's school photos.

A new year, a new blog

Welcome to my new blog. Somehow I could not post on my old blog any longer, so I have decided to start a new one. Hopefully I will post more frequently from now on.

We had a nice and quiet Christmas. Alistair and I went to Devon for a week over New Years, while the boys were with their dad. We had dreadful weather, but luckily the cottage we had rented, was very comfortable. We could not go for many walks, in fact, the only time we made it from our cottage to the cliff path, we got blown back by a fierce hail storm. We enjoyed watching "Flushed Away" in the cinema, and bought ourselves a new flatscreen television and a DVD/VCR/HDD recorder. Now we can finally see 100 % of widescreen movies.

Our house and garden survived last month's bad storm without any damage. It was quite scary. I even brought my bunnies indoors because I feared that the hutch might get blown away. Since then we've had snow twice, but it never stayed on the ground very long.

Matthias has now been officially diagnosed with "borderline Asperger's Syndrome", but the psychologist said he should continue ging to a mainstream school. He should get certain privileges, though. I would prefer if he had a quite place to go to during break times, because he does get teased by some kids, and gets upset about it. Today he was in tears when I picked him up from school, his teacher was trying to calm him down. Obvisouly he'd been in an argument with other kids again.

Martin is doing fine, but is scared of quite a few things right now. He had to have his blood tested again this week, because he had had a tick a while ago, and he was not happy. Even a little spider on the carpet can make him jump.

Snoopy wants to show you how long he can stretch. And gets copied by Roger, the wood mouse, whom I caught in our bathroom last week. He's a free mouse again now, but if he returns, I may have to get some cruel traps.