Well it's now well into September and things are not too great at home atm. Have just read through my last entry (31Aug 2016) re only minding the toddler 2 mornings a week! Well so far it was 2 almost full days while daughter went to work for training days, then she went on a night out with friends so that meant babysitting til 3am - when her friend got back first and woke me up! Also had to take toddler for settling in sessions at the childminder, have covered various other times as well when she has had to stay late. Also, she went out at 6pm this last weekend and returned at 10 am the next day. Next month will be worse as the childminder is on holiday for one and a half weeks! And to top it off this Sunday is looking chaotic as daughter, OH and various other family members are off on their annual pub crawl! Really feeling that I don't want to babysit anymore than my 2 mornings a week now - as was the agreement.
The situation with the dog has worsened I am sad to say. She has now taken to growling at me quite frequently especially when OH is at work. Also growling at my daughter. We contacted the vet who recommended a behaviourist. Every week she seems to get worse and she has just started to growl at OH too. We have separated her completely from the toddler and she spends the day in the garage with the door open to the garden until OH gets home. If I enter the garage she growls and snarls at me but then lays down and is ok. If I am home alone, eg when daughter is at work and toddler at the childminder, she can come in the house if she wants to but often she prefers to stay in the garage alone. This is a really bad situation and we are all really hoping the behaviourist will be able to help as we really don't want to get rid of her. We may not have a choice if she escalates to biting me or others. Hoping to see the dog behaviourist next week, as the 3 people I contacted were all fully booked for 3 or 4 weeks!
We have had a couple of birthdays this month - grandson turned 8, Daughter-in-law had a birthday, and OH was 65! He isn't retiring though and plans to work for another 4 years. So we visited grandson and had birthday cake and coffee. For OH's birthday our sons, myself and daughter all went out to his favourite curry restaurant. For DIL we had the grandchildren stay over in daughter's bed so son and DIL could have a nice night out. They were really well behaved and slept well but not sure if daughter did as she didn't have a lot of room lol.
Bye for now All the best.
