Keeping it real...

So things have been pretty good around here but I am going to keep it real also. There have been tears from the kids, anger, etc... The difference is they are using their tools.

Yesterday I had several proud moments. CDQ was unhappy that she broke a rule and lost reading privileges for the rest of the day. Usually she would go to her room, forgetting about the intercom and talk some major smack completely blaming us for her breaking a rule and having a consequence. Today we heard this on the intercom..."I am making good choices, I am making good choices..."

A short time later the boy got in trouble for breaking the rules. He lost toy privileges for the rest of the day (By the way, there are warnings that lead up to these privilege losses). He started whining and crying and it was going downhill quickly. Normally I would tell him it was nap time and that he needed to take a nap and he would go into full on meltdown. This time I tried to get him to do some tapping. He was doing it when I left him to help hubs with something and when I came back he was laying on his bed (like less than a minute later I was back). I told him he needed to get up and finish his tapping because it will help him feel better. He got up with attitude and was just standing there. I said fine, you know what? Go ahead and lay down, take your nap. Then he started crying and whining that he wanted to do his tapping , I told him he couldn't. So of course, he was going on and on until I walked away. Then he did his tapping and stopped the meltdown immediately. LOL (*doing the I-got-you-with-your-ODD-dance*)

At dinner, SS shared that she was angry with the boy because she actually got in trouble with him earlier. She was doing what he was doing knowing full well they were breaking the rules but she said she did it because he told her to. Suuuuure... She said instead of hitting him she did this flexing thing with her fingers on both hands and told him her anger was going to him and that it was just invisible. LOL! I thought that was very creative and great that she designed her own outlet.

We changed up the strong sitting today and what we say during tapping. I have them do tapping together. In fact, Sunday I could see CDQ crashing and I decided to let her lead tapping. I don't know if that's good or not but that instantly changed her attitude. So I was happy and so was she and all was right in the world.

They also started their gratitude journals today. I've read Lisa's blog from beginning to end and I am shamelessly taking her techniques and applying them to my kids. (THANKS LISA!)

Since the kids have been doing so well, I have been in a frenzy cleaning my house. Unfortunately, it's still not too noticable because once I clear out one area I bring in more boxes from storage. I'm determined to have everything out of storage by the end of the month so I won't have to pay storage fees.

Things are moving along...I have some post ideas brewing in my head about home and Hubs, etc... But I find myself spending computer time trying to catch up on blog reading rather than blogging. lol There are just too many good blogs out there! My blog reader currently shows 66 blogs and those are only the ones that have new posts or unread posts. Plus, I've been interested in going back to where it all began on some blogs. So if I comment from a week ago or 3 years ago you know why. LOL!