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Thanks Sciolet, I will probably take you up on that offer

Well you'd probably enjoy my sons latest escapade.

He found two packets of unused sparklers, left over from last Halloween. He chipped off all the sparkler bits and put them in a bag. This evening he set fire to the pile of bits which burst into a huge sparkly explosion! He loved it.
He also found two ships flares in our shed (we used to go sailing) and planned to get all the gunpowder out to make a really huge explosion! Luckily my husband put a stop to that.

Goodness knows what his next project will be!

@BeauZa: I am in the linguistic department of our school and I love languages... does that count? What you said about saying (...that sounds weird), ...what you mentioned about saying random things in French kind of reminds me of Oskar Schell, the main character of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Do you know the book? We had to read it in English and although I don't even remember half of the story, he really impressed me with his "raison d'être".
Sorry to disappoint you My parents went for something a bit more conventional, but I sure wish they had chosen Sciolet. That's a nice name you have there - your parents must have been really sure that you'd turn out good-looking
Sure, I'd love to write with you. Same goes for you, by the way. When you're bored out of you mind, you can always message me and I'll write back asap

@richie: Thank you ...I'm just going to search for this lovely smiley for a moment, but I'll be right back... hmm, I couldn't find it, but please imagine that I am enthusiastically waving right back at you.

@Verinda: Oh, be assured that I did enjoy reading that and that I'd have loved to see it! Where does he get those ideas? Sure, the second seems a bit, uh, dangerous, but the idea of something sparkly, shiny and explosive... well, I understand the appeal.
It seems like you have a very turbulent life in which there is absolutely no place for boredom, so that's good, but it also seems like it could be tremendously stressing at times, so I'd like to take this moment to tell you that I find it heart-warming and delightful to meet someone like you. I'm sure that there are a lot of mothers out there who will only ever think of their children as weirdos, while you do your best to understand and support them. My kudos to you

Hi Sciolet, I think you have wisdom beyond your years. Yes, my sons projects can become overwhelming at times and cause a lot of stress, especially if things start to go wrong.

He spent all day saturday making a rocket launcher, he filled it with more sparkler bits and set fire to it, hoping to send a tin can into orbit, but the rocket launcher melted! Causing a great deal of upset.

Now he's decided he wants to go to South America to see how much fruit is grown there. I think that project's a bit too expensive for us!

We always try to help him with his projects and encourage him and he's generally quite happy. But sometimes it can all get a bit too much!

Hi Verinda!
My mom often says that - she thinks that I'm something like an old soul and she is probably right about that. Hopefully, it's not too hard on you at the moment. Really, I think it's amazing. Any kid would be blessed to have parents like you. I don't know you in person, but it always sounds as if you're having a total blast (pun intended) and as if you are a happy family - that must have been a lot of work up until now. And apparently it pays off, resulting in your sons being so lively and creative that it's almost a bit too much

South America, huh? I understand that - always wanted to go there one day. But, judging by what's happened, it's probably something entirely else by now anyway and he's just as enthusiastic about it as he was about South America. Whatever it is, I'll keep me fingers crossed for him.

Hi Sciolet,
So sorry I didn't answer you before, i've been having a few health problems.

At the moment my son's making a replica of a first world war machine gun. It's pretty good too! We are a happy family now but had lots of troubles in the past and probably will do again. My older son's just been diagnosed with aspergers so nothing easy or straight forward for us!

My husband thinks he has it too and I'm sure I have lots of tendencies. So the way forward is to keep smiling and keep positive.

yes you're right, he's forgotten about south America now, he's too pre-occupied with worrying about moving schools, the school he's at now is very small but the next school he'll go to next year is much bigger and quite scary for him.

I hope you'll see this post, Sciolet I meant to reply before. And I hope all is well with you.

Hi, Verinda!

I'm sorry to hear that you're not feeling well I hope that you will feel better soon.

A WWI machine gun? Dear lord, his interests are jumping all over the place, aren't they?
If he's worried about a bigger school, it might relax him to hear that bigger schools are usually better for introverts than smaller schools. In smaller schools everyone knows everyone and once you do or say something wrong the whole school knows. In bigger schools nobody really cares about yet another ant in the big hill

That's very comforting Sciolet, you are right because the school he's in at the moment is tiny with very small classes so It will be less intense in a bigger school. Quite scary too though when he's used to such a small school. Hopefully he will be able to make friends.

The machine gun worked out really well, he's had a lot of fun with it, not that I like him playing with guns, I just don't have much choice in the matter! As I write he's just got up and said he can't get to sleep, he sometimes reckons there's a ghost in his room. I think it will take a while to pursuade him back to bed.

My health issue is ongoing at the moment, don't think i'll see the back of it for a while.

I hope all is well with you Sciolet.

Best wishes