Eventful Day!!!

Little Prince was delighted to return to school today :-) He was less happy that lazy mummy decided to drive to school rather than race after him on his scooter, but I'm not quite up to that yet lol. And besides I had to go to the garage to get some air in one of my tyres. The first garage I tried has removed their air-line! The second one's air-line was out of order!! So that was a wasted trip!! I got home in time to get some more washing on, do lots of tidying up (its amazing how much easier it is without Little Prince's 'help'!!!

Late morning the Educational Psychologist arrived for our scheduled meeting to discuss his recent assessments of Little Prince. Basically he didn't tell me anything I didn't already know ie that Little Prince has difficulties with fine motor skills and concentration! He has suggested some strategies for school to use with Little Prince to help him achieve - lots of positive reinforcement, short activities and lots of supervision, which is more or less how we treat him at home. He also went through an Autism/Aspergers Syndrome questionnaire with me and at the end of it concluded that if Little Prince even has this it is on the extremely mild end of the spectrum :-) That was very very reassuring, as out of all the ideas the Paediatrician came up with when we visited him, it was the Autism/Aspergers Syndrome that worried me the most. I don't even know why, its just a condition that scares me, which is very silly of me as I know very little about it! He ended by saying that he will be off work for the next few months (following an operation next week) and that he urgently needs some forms from school, and asked that I chase this up for him. Well actually he said tell Miss that if she doesn't send me the form she can't have my report!!! I told school when I picked Little Prince up and hopefully they will get on with it now!!
After picking Little Prince up and waiting for Drama Teen to arrive home, we set off for the supermarket. Little Prince fell asleep in the car on the way there, and really didn't want to wake up when we arrived! We sat him in the shopping trolley (he is way too big for the child seats) and he eventually agreed to wake up if we let him look at the toy aisle. I warned him we were just looking and not buying, and he was very good about this :-)

After finishing the shopping I took them both to the fast food restaurant, as I had decided to rejoin Weight Watchers tonight and wouldn't have time to cook. It was probably not a good idea to have some fast food myself, but I figured I'd start being good tomorrow lol.

Then on the way home our problems started!! I was in the front of the queue at a large roundabout, and started to slowly pull out when a car came round indicating that he was taking the exit before mine. I had to stop, when he sailed past the exit and carried on past me! Unfortunately the car behind me didn't stop and crunched right into the back of my car!! We were jerked forward with quite a bit of force, despite being in a much bigger 4x4!! After checking that Drama Teen and Little Prince were alright, I got out and checked the other driver was ok - she was. She seemed a bit shaky and very cross!! I explained that about the car indicating and then not turning and she accepted that. She was cross because she was in a hire car, due to someone else doing the same to her earlier in the week!! Her car front grill was broken and there was a huge 'spare wheel' shaped dint in her bonnet! My car, on the other hand was completely unscathed!! Well the impact had knocked some of the dirt off, but no scratches, marks or dints whatsoever!! Yeah for 4x4s :-) The young driver seemed very distracted and rang someone on her mobile! Another driver going past shouted abuse at us both and told us non too politely to move our cars out of the way as we were causing a hold up!! Lovely sympathetic man NOT!!! We moved our cars onto the verge and exchanged details, the young driver asked that if I did discover a problem with my car that I contact her first and she would pay for it, as she would rather not go through her insurance, probably as she'd lose her no claims or something.

We finally got back in our cars and I set off for home again, it was already too late to be able to go to WW and I was feeling a bit shaken up and didn't fancy it by then anyway! I got Drama Teen to try to get in touch with my friend who I was supposed to meet at WW, but her mobile was turned off and she'd already left when Drama Teen tried her at home. We had to go straight round to our accountants house when we got into our village to drop off some forms he needed. Luckily he was in a hurry and didn't keep me for long, and we were off home so that I could relax :-)

Driving down the main village street, I slowed down as their was a horse rider in front of us, and it was a good job I did!! The next minute we heard a bang and a crunch and a motorbike slid across the village hall car park towards us!! If we or the horse rider had been just a few seconds quicker we would have been hit!! I stopped the car and went to see if the rider was ok, as he was just lay very still on the ground!! His friends were surrounding him and asking if he was ok, but he still didn't seem to be moving! He started to move slightly as I got there and I asked if he needed an ambulance or wanted his family contacting, I got told "F*&k off I'm fine." Charming boy!!! So I f'd off back to my car, thoroughly p'd off with his attitude!! I'll ask his mum at school tomorrow how he is!!

Drama Teen and her friend kindly put all our shopping away, as I was feeling very shaky and needed to sit down. When Mr Messy rang up (he is working away this week until Friday) I tried not to tell him, as I didn't want him to worry. But he knew from my voice that something was up, and so I had to tell him. I broke down in tears and got pretty emotional, luckily Drama Teen was able to give me a big hug, which helped a lot :-) Then I got Little Prince ready for bed, luckily he settled down pretty quickly (I wondered if his earlier nap would make him stay awake for ages) and I was able to come downstairs and switch off and relax. My neck and back have started to ache and I'm still feeling shaky, so I've got my fingers crossed that its just due to being scrunched up on a plane, and then being tense and nervous over panel rather than being whiplash! I'll see how I am in the morning!! What a day!!!!