Weekend!

We had a good one....not without some issues, but hey, thats expected with an autistic child like Stef.
Stef has a huge phobia of public toilets......you cannot get her in one for love nor money, not even chocolate! Anyways, we got to the motel room after our 4 hour drive, got ready to go to the festival, and thinking it would be a while before she could go, asked her to go to the toilet in the motel room. Do you think we could get her in there........NO WAY! I ended up putting a nappy on her (which she hates) and off we went. The festival was good fun...the music this year was an Elvis impersonator, (not particularly my cup of tea) and then Hot Pink..she was good. Stef totally enjoyed that bit..moshing away....she really loves music, and likes Pink as I have her albums. We got back to the hotel room, put a new nappy on her and put her to bed, we didnt even try to get her in the toilet. When we got up and was close to getting ready to leave.....she just marched in and went...woohoo, the fact that she overcame her fear was just awesome. We think she also went in there in the night as she was dry when she got up. Sometimes we just cant think why these things terrify her so much. We know that something happened at school one day, as her behaviour completely changed over night. Maybe she was locked in one.....hopefully nothing more than that, but without a voice, how can she ever tell us what went on.
We also picked up a heap of our stuff from our friends' place. Someone bought our huge old van which was stored down there..and the entire contents was emptied into their garage. A full trailer load of stuff, and still we left things down there that just didnt fit. We will buy a new van for next year's holidays. Oh and we had a blowout on the trailer on the way home......um more like a catestrophic failure of an extremely old worn out tyre.
Got home around 5, and Ive made a batch of biscuits for school lunches and a quiche for Steve and my lunches...gotta love our chookies!!!