This is Grace when she is happy.
Grace was not happy coming home from our house at the beach today. If you would have told me a year ago that Grace wouldn't want to LEAVE the beach house I would have laughed!
One year ago, Gracie would start crying when we were still 30 minutes away and wouldn't get out of the car when we finally got there. Then she barricaded herself in her room and wouldn't come down from her room. It got so bad I talked to Chris about selling it.
Then she gradually got over it. She came down to the living room and eventually became comfortable again. Now she LOVES it there.
She was genuinely happy to be there. You could see it in her face.
Then when she knew we were leaving it was like a storm came in. She DID NOT want to GO.
She cried for an hour. I had to get in the back seat with her. You don't want to know the hell of driving with a screaming child and 3 dogs for four hours . (Chris got a taste of that tonight)
I don't know if she was just mad about leaving or had tummy troubles-or both because she can't tell me. She did use her device to consistently tell us (over and over!) that " I would like to do something else." In other words "I want to go back to the beachhouse you idiots!!!!"
I can keep calm for a while- to try to keep her calm. But then the little things will set me off- tonite it was the dog.
I guess it's harder because she is doing so well most of the time. She's a different person than she was a year ago. She likes to go to dinner now. This weekend she asked for dessert when we went out to eat! So now when she does go haywire it's more frustrating because I feel like I should know why it's happening.
I guess the bright spot in our torturous drive tonite was that she was trying so hard to tell us what the problem was. I don't want to do what you are making me do. I want to go back. I want to do something other than what I am doing now!!!
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