Take Each Day By Day

At the start of this week I held a lunch party for my now darling four-year son for his birthday. It was a challenge and I was hosting by myself but I am happy to report that the day was a success! I prepared my little ASDER fairly thoroughly and I think this was the key to a successful day! Yey for listening to our psychologist! My son is really good with remembering instruction lists, so I gave him a run down of how the day was to go. The main thing I was determined to follow was that he opened his presents after lunch. I have witnesses the chaos of ripping into presents and kids wanting everything open to play with and my son can be very protective of his stuff and it is a disaster waiting to happen. Gem was perfect! He remembered all the rules, waited for all his friends to finish their lunch and after a small hiccup with the bubble wands (you can tell your kid to wait but when there is another impatient child it's game on!) was all ready to go! He thanked everyone with hu...

My poor darling child has the unfortunate luck to be a December baby. So while everyone else is getting excited for Christmas, he is torn between Christmas merriment and his birthday. We have many interesting conversations were he asks Santa for something and I remind him that maybe – Santa doesn’t guarantee to get you EVERYTHING you want, so he then insists on getting it for his birthday. Trying to knock the sense of entitlement out of an ASD nearly 4 year old is hard! He can be very literal and if you tell him to be good and Santa will get you a gift that you ask for, well as you can bet he expects to be compensated for his good behaviour. We try to hold off on the Christmas tree and decorations until after his birthday but he wants to be like everyone else and have everything up. So December needless to say is one busy excitable month for us! This year for his birthday party I decided to host a birthday lunch during the week. My husband is a shift worker and we could not make a...

Mother, wife, friend, teacher and all round goof ball, I am so happy to be sharing things that interest me and my loves to the world - or at least in a way that I can sit back and reflect on. I have been blessed in so many ways so far in my life - a great job, lovely family and friends and the comforts of a nice home. But as with all good things I have struggled with the bad and can find myself in dark places that take me a while to climb out of. Like many people I have struggles, low confidence issues and problems that plague me throughout my everyday life. I have manic periods and lows. I also a husband that suffers from depression and my precious angel has ASD. Whilst I am lucky that he is high functioning, it is not without its challenges and moments. But everyday we get to start again and try to make the journey worthwhile, so here I am trying to do the best with what I have been given!!  Xox