#229 Sunday 17 April 2011

Today started with a good sleep in (.... yesterday Kaylia slept from midday to 7pm then back to sleep at 10pm .... then she slept right through to this morning. Naomi & I had each taken painkillers and slept well too.) Naomi stayed asleep while I took Kaylia swimming ....then a shopping trip gathering things that we need for the approaching Bali trip.

It was a good start but from there, things rapidly went bad!

The DVD player upstairs decided to stop working .... and her autism would not allow Kaylia to accept any replacement player ..... anxiety went up and I got a glimpse of the situation that Naomi had found herself in when I went to Bali and the 'black iPad' was not at home! It is bad! So bad that we raced down to Big-W to buy another DVD player identical to the broken one.

We found one and got it home ... but we weren't sneaky enough and Kaylia realised that even though it was identical, it was not "four-DVD" (her name for it) and another melt-down precipitated. This all became too much for us too and so Sunday night is not pleasant as we each try to come to terms with things in our own way .... a salutory lesson that we have our breaking point too.