It's Thursday again, and here I am doing another blog post, and I can't believe the time has passed so quickly. We have had a good week, although Carmie has been a bit under the weather. She has been nauseous on and off, particularly at night, and she has had a sore throat as well for the past two days. Arley was bitten by a spider last night on his finger, so he was up late icing his finger. He was in a lot of pain. Needless to say, we took it easy today.
So, the good news is, we have friends! Haha, this is not extraordinary, but I never thought it would happen so soon. On Saturday we met up with the kids' friend Lexi and her family for a wonder around the night market and then dinner on the beach. It was busy and noisy and fun and the kids had a blast playing on the beach while we got to chat, and then we went and got ice creams. We got home after the kids' bedtime and they crashed out, they were so tired. Then we met up with them again on Sunday afternoon for a scooting, skating, shooting hoops session at these huge netball courts. Jeffrey brought the drone and it was fun. Arley was having a tough time - he felt left out because Carmie and Lexi immediately started chatting together and he didn't know how to join in. He spent some time in and out of the car, but he did manage to get himself out and having fun. He's a tough cookie when he senses things amiss for himself (and usually things are in his head). He feels rejection very strongly because his self esteem is shot. It's really hard to pull him out sometimes too :(
Carmie and I went to the Sunshine Plaza mall on Monday. it is huge! There is a river running through it, and a ropes climbing course, a cinema, wine bars, and any stores that we will ever need. Coming from Ulladulla, this is kind of mind blowing. Coming from Coffs it still makes me trip out! Now if only we had more money...ha ha.
We all bought secondhand bikes, so we can ride around our neighbourhood. Arley hasn't gotten on his yet - that will be an effort and take a bit of planning. He has to be very regulated, as it is a bigger bike than he used to have, and it's been over a year since he has ridden. The last time he had a break from riding he literally thought he was going to die from riding a bike, so my fingers are crossed. I have been getting out most days, and this morning I found a new bike trail I hadn't seen before, so I will explore that sometime soon.
On Tuesday we started our first family Zoom therapy session with our new psychologist. It went really well, and I can see that it will help. This first session was about how people react to the same situation with different emotions, and identifying different feelings of happiness on the happy scale. We have homework to do before our session next week. It's easy stuff, but the kids only have attention spans for things like this for so long, so they started to fall apart a little in the end.
We were supposed to be going to a place called Rush Adventureland tomorrow with the homeschool kids but Carmie is not feeling well enough and just tonight Arley's spider bite 'popped' (gross!) and he's in pain, so it looks like another quiet one for us tomorrow.
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