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Yes I know what dyspraxia is, a friend's Grandson has it.

It could be the dyspraxia itself then that makes him unwilling to socialise, that and the feeling of speaking differently. I am sure that your friends and family understand. Maybe you could ask him the next time to just look in the door, wave and smile, say that people will understand that he feels uncomfortable in company. In his mind I am sure he is not being disrespectful, he just feels out of place among 'normal' people, even yourselves. How old is he? And will he talk about it?

No Ann it's not a stutter. It's like listening to a deaf person talk but different. He went to a special school had years of speech therapy and was under a consultant for years I took him to hospital to see his consultant about every six weeks for years. It's dyspraxia causes other side problems it's sometimes known as clumsy child syndrome.

Colin nice to see you back.

A happy new year to you too Colin.

Carole, is it because your son has a speech impairement that he doesn't like to have to be with people? Does he have a stutter and has he had any treatment for it. I do sympathise with him, I imagine it is similar to a hearing impairment and very isolating.

I am safely home and slowly getting back to normal. Still feel a bit flat, but A-D still have not kicked in fully I think. The weather at my sisters place was dull, but not a lot of rain. They are really copping it further north, in Queensland, though. It is their wet season but the floods this summer are unusually high.
It was a bit of a crowded house for Christmas lunch- Both my sisters, P and C; C's husband P and their two grown up daughters, one with her partner, P's son from his first marriage and his wife and teenage children and a couple of cousins. One of the last has been in a wheelchair since he was 19 when he broke his neck in a motor vehicle accident. He is now about 60. You look at him and realise how lucky you are.
To all who come on here, we wish you a happy new year and may 2011 turn out a good one for us.
(((((((((hugs))))))) and xx Colin

Mary your Christmas day sounds wonderful. Our son managed to join us when we were a third of the way through our dinner, despite us calling him in ample time. He opened his gifts after we had gone to bed. And just as people were about to start arriving on Boxing Day he went for a bath and didn't even show his face. We had a row Monday and haven't seen hi since. He has had texts with me and told me how I don't know what it is like to live with a speech imparement. No I don't and he doesn't know what it feels like to have done everything a parent can do and still have no respect.

Kathy I hope your son was a pleasure Christmas Day xx

Love to you all xx

Nice to see you posting again Kathy, hope your icicles soon melt.

Mary, hope the bruises heal soon, what are you like??? Enjoy NY eve, sounds like fun. Lovely of your children to buy you a laptop, no excuse for not joining us now.

Well now it's time to wish you all a very happy and peaceful new year.
Christmas was a bit disjointed,spread over 4 days, but we have a type of peace in our home which has been absent for a very long time. My ex-husband and his wife, my children's father, came for dinner yesterday, and it was truly enjoyable. The lot of us haven't eaten a meal all together since December 1981. It was a happy occasion eventually, after he got lost (not a new failing) and arrived late, which upset david who suddenly and emotionally announced he's been left waiting for him his entire life. By the time they left, there were hugs all round.All is right with the world.
I am slowly recovering from my unplanned flight down the front porch steps,on ice, and the puppy has 3 weeks to go with her leg in a cast. She's been so rambunctious that she's already on third edition of her leg cast.
We are going to the water park in Niagara Falls on new years eve, and staying overnight, then I am heading into Toronto next week to spend a few days with D & J.
All my kids got together and bought me a laptop for Christmas, so now \I can be warm, have my feet up and still check in here!!
All the best to al,l of you, may there be peace and some measure of contentment in 2011.
Mary

I have not posted for a while but wanted to wish you all a belated merry xmas .

We have been up to our knees in snow for weeks now and I have icicles that could kill if they fell on anyone.

Xmas was cancelled here as the roads are just too bad .No turkey for son and me but I did manage to cook something quite edible and he actually sat at the table with me !!!!.

The cat is sulking because he is bored .Wants to go out but doesn't like getting his feet frozen .

Stay safe and warm everyone .

Kathy xxx

Hasn't the tele been dire this Christmas Day?

There is not much else to do here and I have been bored.
Christmas has never been too good here anyway.I have some very unhappy memories.The year my mother,who did very little housework,spent scrubbing the kitchen floor to draw attention to the extremely hard life she led.

The year our rented television broke down on Christmas Eve so she holed herself up in the bedroom with the little black and white portable she decided was hers and a packet of fags,so nobody else could watch it.
Yes,she was mad and I know there have been other children living the misery today.They are my little heroes.They didn't volunteer for it.Bless them.

To wish you all a blessed Christmas season, sharing with family and friends.
I am still sleeping in a chair but I AM sleeping, tthat's what's important. Could be an advert for "the colour purple' but on my feet and busy as usual. I am so thrilled I didn't break any bones.
Better off to bed now 3am, the troops will be up soon, looking for stockings . . . and I must OOh and AAh over everything. love it!!
Night all and happy Christmas.
mary

A Happy and Peaceful Christmas to all and let's hope 2011 will be a better one for all of us, despite the efforts of the politicians.

Love and hugs
Lizxx

A Happy and Peaceful Christmas to all and let's hope 2011 will be a better one for all of us, despite the efforts of the politicians.

Love and hugs
Lizxx

Eileen, thank you for your card, I think I sent you one but found an empty envelope with your address written on so not sure what happened, did I lose that one and write another envelope, or prepare the envelope and forget to write the card. My apologies if you didn't receive a card or got an empty envelope lol

Stay warm and safe and hope you can spend time with your loved ones this Christmas time.

Lizxx

Happy Christmas everyone. May the new year bring happiness and peace of mind to us all, good health wouldn't go amiss either, if possible.

Eileen

Well here I am!! I have read back a few pages and caught up a bit. The wet room, the roof, the old man, the van and kids, and Ben's progress with FT. ..................

What a year this has been, I'll be glad to see it gone. But sadly not taking my Dad into the new year is hard to come to terms with. My weeks have been too short. With work three days a week, taking Mum out, sorting out a new piece of
paperwork that seems to keep dropping on Mum's or my door mat each week. We had started to decorate in September while also visiting Dad in hospital, so it is taking an age to get on with that. It is now on hold untill after Christmas. Oh yes and our computer bust. So my daughter occasionally brings hers for us to catch up on pressing things. (I have it today). I tried to log into GR but couldn't. So I thought I had changed my password. Today I have hot matches and finally had a reminder sent (requested by me) of my password which I hadn't changed so no wonder I couldn't get ontp GR before!!! I had been trying to sign in with a password that I had thought I had used. All the time I hadn't changed it. Does that make sense? !! I messed up. :)

How are you all getting on with your preparations for Christmas, and what are your plans? From Colin to Mary, everyone inbetween I wish you all a very happy Christmas, and health for the new year. xx

Hi Colin

Hope you are ok, and can enjoy the time spent with your sister. Sorry I haven't been in touch, not been very communicative lately, will be fine when the days get longer again, roll on mid Feb - this is my worst time of year from before Christmas to after Valentines.

I will survive, ala Gloria Gaynor

Take care everyone, hate this cold weather and if I had my way would hibernate with chocolate and books lol

Christmas wishes to all who come on here.

love and hugs
Lizxx

Just nudging this up. Sorry it's such a bitterly cold and miserable winter in the U.K.
I hope you all have a pleasant Christmas and can deal with the sad memories the season brings to all of us who have " lost " loved ones.
I will probably be AWOL until early in the new year, going to visit my sister in northern NSW so will be away about a week.

Colin

Mary, Just to say many thanks for your card and letter which arrivd today.

sorry Mary, click on Post date for the latest post first.

Morning all
To get to the most recent post I click on POST DATE and it takes you to the very last post. It is under the bar with the page numbers. Hope that is easier to understand than it was to write !!!LOL

Sorry to hear about about the puppy Mary. It must have been very upsetting.

Hopefully everyone is staying warm and safe and avoiding the snowy weather in Britain.

Take care

Linda :o) XxX

The 'last post' option is gone from my thread. I go to 'more pages', then click on the last number. Currently #426 I believe.
What a day I've had, the van is finally repaired so I took it for an oil change and of course there is a leak, so that necessitated a new gasket, which of course has to be located deep inside the engine area, a 3 hour job to repair.
i should finally be on the road in the morning.
I just returned from the emergency vet clinic, where poor wee Ginny, miniMary's puppy, just 15 weeks old, is waiting for care, with a broken leg. She wriggled out of Mary's arms, and mis-landed on the floor. Hopefully they have a successful reduction of the fracture. The vet was terrific, spent a lot of time kindly explaining the X-ray to Mary. if they can't reduce the fracture under anaesthetic, it may require surgery, pins etc. Mary is remarkably good, very upset initially, but had settled by the time I left her, with her mother, at the clinic. of course she feels guilty, but it truly was an accident.
Just another quiet day on the home front.
I bought a small bottle of ice wine + red pepper jelly for a gift for my daughter-in-love Joanne, but I may eat it before I hit the hay tonight.!! Don't expect miniMary and Colleen home before 1am.
Night all, please stay safe, I've seen enough mishaps this past week to last me for a while!
Mary