Break Over!

11 days of staying at home and tomorrow work and school resumes.  it has been a great break and I am thankful to God for every opportunity given to me to spend time with my kids.  I am a workaholic, i love work but this year I wanted to take it easy on those joints, yes! I am feeling old. lol

Tomorrow , it will be nice to resume life on the fast lane again and look forward to the weekends.  for now, I head to bed and try to get the kids to cooperate.

Where we at!

This year is almost  over and all I can think about is my forthcoming vacation with my sister  and family in Pennsylvania. I have not seen her in almost two years and there is even a kiddo or (two) I need to be introduced to as aunt when I arrive.

I cannot wait to experience the cold and lazy air of the country side. I cannot wait to let the kids get loose and roam free while me and my sister catch up on lost times.  It is a time I wait for. A time where everything will seem so normal for a while. A time where I do not have to think of my autistic son or worry about stabbing looks from strangers. A time of family for family.

I love this photo because of the rays of sunlight on him.

God is with him I am sure!

A walk by the lake.

A little dance.

Picking a flower.

A time where I can just be with family because they know and understand and try not to judge me and him. Having an autistic son takes the life  out of you as you try to make him normal in the public eye or try to bribe him into not throwing another fit in the middle of the restaurant or Walmart. I am learning to be strong for him and I am learning to follow his lead and follow him into the world where my understanding is highly limited.

As a mother, I seat at at his mental and emotional door everyday and hoping he will let me in each day. That is where I at.

Autism

Little Daniel's speech started to recede at 18months, he stopped humming his favorite song  and he eventually stopped talking at the age of 3. And he started to do this jumpy dance  and flap his ears relentlessly when he was watching TV. I have to stop him so he wouldn't pass out or turn the TV off before he will stop jumping. I am talking about continuous jump, it was heartbreaking to watch and it was like he zoned off into another realm. After a while, we stopped watching TV all together.

Everyone was worried that something was off about him but as a mother you do not want to hear that about your little boy that have already being through a lot to be alive. I tuned them out and my enabler was my pediatrician who said he might just have some delays and nothing to worry about. I was comforted by those words and I wanted it to be so but it was not.

However, we had a development therapist who said I needed to get my son checked because he was exhibiting the same kind of traits one of her clients who was autistic got.
I was like Autism again, so I braved up and took him to Autism specialist  and with  one look at Daniel, he was medically declared  Autistic.

I felt bad that my son was not PERFECT and it hurts but deep down I  felt a kind of relief because now we can deal with these issues  I have been shelving away for so long.
 Now we can fight!

So Daniel is in school, he was admitted into school by 3 years and he has speech and occupational therapy at school and the improvements are showing.

He says thank you, yum-yum (Food),  Dana ( Sister's name), noooooh(no), waha(water) and of course mickey mouse and many more.

 Yea! Everyday is a different and we are working towards progress.

Gosh!

Oh My Goodness!
It has been a while.
Well I have so many excuses. For one my mother was visiting. She was here for three months!!1
Does that count?
Well, I am not sure. But my life have been a rollercoaster for the past year.
where do I start? Not sure but I will start by  saying I am here and still standing.

And by the way, I never got my treadmill but I joined a gym!
maybe I will start with the gym story.

stay tuned. I am  about to unloaded a year's worth of nick knack on yall.

And the kids are doing well.