The Stimming Spot

You say its your birthday!

2010-09-16T08:42:00.000-07:00

Happy 8th Birthday to Joshua Aidan!

The Rain

2010-09-09T08:48:00.000-07:00

Its been off and on raining for two days now. Josh doesnt care one bit about the rain. If he wants to be outside hes going to outside. No little bit of rain is going to stop him. This is difficult to keep him in from the rain. He sneaks back out to play. Its a struggle.

smiles in the morning are the best!

2010-08-26T10:21:00.000-07:00

Josh is so hard to wake up in the mornings. You never know what kind of mood he is going to be in. I usually go in his room every ten minutes to shake him up. But by 7:30 Im dressing him in bed while he tries to wake up. Today he was awake before I was and smiling. I love this! He got up just fine and got onto the bus giggling lol. I really love days like this. As for Matthew. Two weeks into school and I believe he is already finished with school lol. He's in middle school now and he has no recess and its the pits for him. Poor kid. Its going to be a long year for him.

Stay at home mama

2010-08-19T13:38:00.000-07:00

So the kids are off to school. And I am now home alone. What to do, what to do.

School Starts

2010-08-16T09:41:00.000-07:00

School started this morning. Matthew goes into middle school. He starts 6th grade today. Joshua starts 3rd grade. They both start a new school. Matthew was real nervous about starting this morning. I hope he does well. Getting Josh ready for the day seemed to be hard. He hates clothes so getting him dressed is always a problem. Things should return back to normal soon. I hope it all goes smoothe for us all.

Joshua at the creek

2010-08-05T12:30:00.000-07:00

Clothes

2010-08-01T10:43:00.000-07:00

Well Josh is 7 years old and he refuses to put clothes on. It becomes a major meltdown to try to put clothes on this kid. He has been running around naked most the time. Unless of course if we go somewhere. I find him not wearing clothes totally unexceptable for his age. But it becomes a fight and he usually wins. I feel bad when I fight with him. School will be starting in a week and I am dreading getting him up and clothed in time for the bus to pick him up. When we go somewhere all we have to say is "want to go" and his ears purk up and he wants to get ready. Then its easy to get him dressed. So Im saving this "want to go" for school and hope it works lol. Have a good day :)

What a week

2010-07-30T07:48:00.000-07:00

Its been a great week with the kids. I havent had any meltdowns all week. Its just been so calm. I hope it continues. Josh has been real happy the whole week. Maybe its because of the weather. The weather has been real nice. Im very thankful :)

pity party

2010-07-27T07:49:00.000-07:00

Lately I have been having a big old pity party. Im sort of mourning I guess you can call it. My son has severe autism. He is nonverbal. Im sad that my son will not be what I thaught he would be. I wanted so much for him. I thaught I could handle it but I havent lately. But today I went on a support group. They opened my eyes. I need to move on. I have a healthy beautiful son. Sure he may live with us the rest of our lives. But he's a human being. He's amazing and unique. I cant let this autism suck me down anymore. Its really time to move on. If I dont get past this I am just going to be a bitter woman and I dont want that. I want to be happy with what I have and love life. No more pity party!

My Kids

2010-07-26T07:20:00.000-07:00

Right now Im just really worried about my kids. Its summer vacation. School will be starting in a couple of weeks. Matthew has aspergers and has an iep. He is having trouble in math. So I think I will call for an emergency iep when school starts. He starts middle school and its going to be hard for him. I just know it will. I worry all the time about Josh. Worrying is sort of what I do lol. I do it alot. Since it is summer vacation Josh has been running around really with no structure. I wish he had summer school to help him with that. I dont know why we didnt put him in. He has became unpredictable. You never know what side of Josh your going to get when he wakes up. Even through out the day he changes. He is very stuborn and wants things his way. I wish there was some way to help him with this. One thing I have found is he is happy when he has a full belly. But he can change after that. He is so up and down and he can be very physicially abusive to me. I cant wait for vacation to be over with and put him in some structured school.

Husband is away

2010-07-17T10:30:00.000-07:00

My husband Brian is away on a work related trip. He has these every month. I hate them. Josh has the hardest time going to sleep at night. Brian seems to be the only one who can settle Josh down enough for him to sleep. I am the type of person that needs a good 10 hours of sleep or Im real cranky. So the next few days are going to be tough. Plus Josh is going through a real honery stage right now. He is so stuborn at times. I will be counting down the days when Brian gets back home.

My first post

2010-07-09T12:04:00.000-07:00

Well I have had this blog for awhile now. Then I decided to delete it. Now I have it up and running again. Please be patient while I clean up and do some reconstruction to the blog. Thanks for visiting.