As 2018 comes to close, I’m sitting here reflecting on everything that happened. Everett’s autism diagnosis, watching both boys grow, family vacations, starting a new business venture, and so on. Part of me wishes time would have slowed down, and the other half of me wishes there had been a fast forward button. Being a …
Everett gets 1 hour of therapy with a trained therapist per week. We rotate biweekly between occupational therapy and feeding therapy/yoga. What does that mean? The other 167 hours in the week are ALL ME. Granted, he sleeps for part of that, so lets say approx 100 hrs a week, I’m focusing on what I …
The Birmigham Children’s Theater started doing sensory friendly shows this year. I was so freaking excited when I learned this. I was already thinking about reaching out to them to do a review and I just happened to meet part of their marketing team at Everett’s school. She invited us to come to their first …
Living Life On The Spectrum: Navigating Sensory Friendly Plays Read More »
Living Life On The Spectrum: Navigating Live Shows I’ve decided to start a new series about tips & tricks to navigating live shows when you’re taking an SPD/ASD kiddos to them. I’ll be covering both sensory and non sensory friendly shows. The posts will encompass the pros/cons of the show and how we prepared for/handled …
Living Life On The Spectrum: Navigating Live Shows Read More »
As you may remember, we received Everett’s official autism diagnosis last week. It’s weird. Nothing has changed but a label, but everything feels so different. While I had an idea that Everett might have autism, I felt like I could explain most of his behaviors away with the SPD and being a toddler. Now I …
My child is autistic. There, I said it. I brought up the elephant in the room. I said the “A” word you whisper about, out loud. Yet when you say it out loud, I mentally cringe. I wonder if I’ll ever get used to hearing someone else say it. If it will ever feel like …
With Everett starting a school type program next week, I got with his therapist and started making a plan. You might remember that Everett was enrolled in a Waldorf school last year…and sort of kicked out. This was pre-diagnosis, so they weren’t able to handle him without a plan. This time I was determined to …
And the years are short. That is the mantra of my life. You know the 3 fast forward options on the remote-slow, medium, and lightning speed? I stepped into adulthood and someone pressed the fast forward button, then they pressed it again when I had Everett, and again when I had Finn. I blink and …
Beautiful Chaos If you would have asked me to describe myself before becoming a mother, I would have probably used some sort patched together vision of myself that involved words such as random, quirky, adventuresome, easy going, care-free, and fun-loving. I always knew that I wanted to have children of my own, but I didn’t …
Everett gets 1 hour of therapy with a trained therapist per week. We rotate biweekly between occupational therapy and feeding therapy/yoga. What does that mean? The other 167 hours in the week are ALL ME. Granted, he sleeps for part of that, so lets say approx 100 hrs a week, I’m focusing on what I need to do to balance Everett’s therapeutic needs with everything else, like Finn and my husband. I’m not going to lie, sometimes I lose sight of that bigger picture, but I’m working on stepping back and taking a breath when we get frustrated and overwhelmed.