I wish we could wave a magic wand and make all the fears, loneliness and sad days disappear.
Did a quick run for doubles.. got pissed off when the cashier started screwing with my order.

The store keeps changing the rules on doubling, very frustrating and makes it really hard to get a deal without a lot of effort to figure out the best scenario. Harder for the cashiers to keep it all straight and they fear getting fired if they screw up an order.
The everyday prices are bad at this store and some locations have limited stock on the good deals. If they are going to be that
picky butt, then I won't bother shopping there. I had stopped once before because the prices were so terrible but I got lured back in when the prices and coupons matched nicely.
Anyway, sis shared her recent visit to my parent's house, glad we couldn't go because there was an ugly scene when my mom flipped out on my dn (with autism). He has no impulse control, a closed door means nothing to him. He went exploring in a spare bedroom closet where my mom had stored some extra shot gun shells.
umm, why there anyway?? I swear my mom has lost her mind, grandkids visit all the time. Lock it up -- duh!
DN got caught lining up the shells in neat little rows on the floor, happily sorting by color and size in typical autism fashion.
Grandma lost it and screamed at dn "if you ever do that again I'm going to beat you!" and then nagged my sis that the younger kids know better to leave it alone why can't he? (well gee Mom,

you do realize he's not like other kids right??)
My mom believes dn knows exactly what he is doing is naughty and sis gives him too much leeway by not punishing him. Well yeah, he might know in some deep corner of his brain that it's not okay.. but that won't stop him because he doesn't have the control to stop himself. It wasn't that long ago he would run after cars in the street because he was fascinated by the wheels turning round n round. He knew being in the street would mean a time out, scolding and freaked out parents, but that still didn't deter him from his interest. Right now, like any 9 yr old, his current interest is play fighting, trying out swear words and guns.
My own boys know that he can't help himself and it's our job to provide a safe environment.
Sigh.... oh well, what can ya do but tell her
yet again sorry and btw he has autism. Could you help by locking up anything that you don't want him to touch?