House Rules

Today we did lots of different but seemingly unrelated things!  It was about correcting our schedules again rather than anything deep and meaningful.  It was about slowing down and spending time rather than a frenetic rush of the rest of the world.  It was what I needed and I think it is what Levi needed.  He never once asked to have his friends over or to go to their place.  We played Lego Minotaur.  We played Go Fish and we played outside.  It was great.  We just chilled out and finished homework assignment calmly rather than frantically, as we usually do.  It was lovely and it was really necessary.  Some of that stretched feeling just melted away.  Not all of it, I will admit.  I still have big things that I need to do and big things to decide, but for the day I just decided to not decide anything, and that was the best decision of all!

Here is Levi doing his 'speaking assignment'.  He is a bit nervous about doing the talk but he does quite well when he relaxes.  The idea of the video and the practise is to let him relax.  The task was to talk about five house rules.  He came up with the rules that he wanted to talk about and they are quite funny. 

I hope that the two weeks we have between Outreach visits will be enough to get him back into the routine.  I hope that my computer makes it until I have the money to buy another.  I hope that I can think with clarity this next week.  I hope.  I hope.