Don’t Upset His Routine!

As most Mondays go, this one was not in the least unusual in the amount of weirdness that went on.  And for Matthew, that was not a good thing.  His grandparents have been gone for quite a few weeks.  So this was his first weekend with them since school let out.  So it all started with him coming home (Transition #1).

Rachel was gone with her dad and won’t be home until next weekend so that threw him off a little bit too.  I mean, come on, his room was actually clean! (Transition #2)

We also had our cat corner a stray dog in our back yard.  This poor pooch has been wandering around for days.  So we shut the gate to keep him in there until the pound can pick him up.  Don’t get too sad yet.  If the owners of this dog don’t claim him then we will take the dog that Austin has dubbed as Waldo.  (Transition #3)

I then took him to the woman’s home who watches him 3 days a week.  She is an Americorps volunteer who has worked with Matty in the past.  Well, he had already had such a nutty morning he didn’t want to get out of the van.  I had to all but pull him out of it!!  I finally got him out and got him to the door when I learned that his caregiver wasn’t home.  Matty was not happy to get back in the van and head back home! (Transition #4)

Luckily, about 5 minutes away his caregiver called.  She had thought she could beat us there and hadn’t.  So we turned around and went back.  Matthew was not happy!!  He was yelling at her.  He was yelling at me.  He was asking her where she was and telling me to go to work.  He had just had it!!

This boy has his routine and if you mess it up too much he is going to let you know about it .