Hello, Timekeeper.  We haven't seen you for a while.

I said Younger Boy could stay up for 15 minutes as long as he was laying on the couch and quiet.  Timekeeper only heard 15 more minutes of being up and he isn't counting the 20 minutes of playing around with the backpack as part of that time, because it "needed to be done".

Timekeeper is FURIOUS tonight, because he didn't get to stay up for 15 more minutes after the 20 minutes and he had to take his third med and go to bed.

FURIOUS!!

Tonight when it was bedtime Younger Boy decided he needed to "pack his backpack". 

I told him if he hurried he could stay up for 15 more minutes as long as he was resting quietly while laying on the couch.

He continued to "pack his backpack" for 20 more minutes.  Taking stuff in and out.  I don't really know what it was all about.

Frustrating for sure.

We went to the driving range tonight as a family to hit some golf balls.

We must have looked like we needed the practice, because I bought 50 range balls and then two separate men gave us all of their leftovers.  We must have hit about 150 or more by the time we were done.

I hit a few, but mostly helped the boys figure out their swings.  Middle Boy is surprisingly good.
Younger Boy swings like a baseball player.  Neither boys likes feedback and surely I don't know.

I suggested golf lessons and they suggested I am ridiculous.

It was a nice evening out and we had a nice time.

Today was a teacher workday so there was no school.

Boarder is out of town so the boys were home alone the entire day. 

They did fairly well today since I had given them a list of tasks I expected to have done by the time I returned home.

They only called once or twice during the course of the day.

I think they are trying to make a case for staying home alone this summer.  Try as they might...IT IS NOT HAPPENING.

This afternoon our family went out for Sunday lunch at a restaurant near church.  It wasn't too busy...which was nice.

We were seated without a wait and ordered our food.

At that time both boys got up to use the restroom.  Middle Boy came back within five minutes.

Younger Boy did not return to the table until we have received our food and Middle Boy and I were FINISHED eating.

At one point Middle Boy was going to go and check on him, but his therapist has asked him to focus on being more aware of the time it is taking him to do things.

THIRTY FOUR MINUTES.  That is how long he was in the restroom

When he came out and I asked what he had been doing he said "using the restroom".  I told him we didn't have time to wait for him to eat and we would take his food to go and he could eat in the car.

This made him angry.

It is becoming a regular occurrence, but it isn't like I can prevent him from going in the restroom.

Later in the evening I was inside doing some work for me "real job" and the boys asked if it was okay for them to go outside and play basketball.

Sure, why not.

About five minutes later I heard the DISTINCT sound of a golf club connecting with a golf ball and saw both boys running to the empty lot to go find it.

I watched from the window and saw BOTH OF THEM intentionally disobey me.  This drives me NUTS.

This evening I told the boys it was okay to swing their golf clubs in the front yard as long as they weren't hitting anything.

I was outside anyway and I gave them each a spot to stand so they wouldn't hit any of our trees, our house, me, Sophie, or each other.

The swung clubs for quite a while.

More than one time they asked it they could hit golf balls since we live next to a huge open area.  No, you cannot hit golf balls.  The only place we will hit golf balls is at a driving range or on a golf course...no exceptions.