Ever had one of those days where you wish you just didn't give a crap about anything? I'm having one of those days. No seriously I am. I got up at stupid o'clock, had a couple of cups of coffee, relatively cleaned the house and did sweet nothing for the rest of the day. Twins went to school, Noah went to daycare. I had 2 and a half hours before Cal needed to be picked up. Did some groceries, came home and did nothing.....
I had so much I had to do today but it felt good to not worry about anything.
I had every intention of sewing together a cubby house for the kids to go over the kitchen table. I haven't even picked out what fabric I am using yet or what is going to go on it.
Everyone deserves a lazy day. Having say that my morning was somewhat constructive until about 8am lol. A day to just chill out and not give a hoot about what anyone thinks or what you have to do for the day. I successfully spent my day drinking coffee, playing games on facebook, doing a spot of shopping on one of my favorite websites aaaaand thats about all.
Why am I bragging about this?
Because it isn't very often I get to do this.
My life can be somewhat tiring and full of me being worried about everything. Majority of the time I thrive on stress and it's nice to have a day where I just don't care.
Tomorrow however, will be a totally different story. We are off to the park for the day! The kids will have a ball and Pat and I will be both exhausted by the time the day ends :)
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
I survived
I know I haven't blogged for a couple of weeks but I've been surviving school Easter Holidays lol. This blog is proof I survived. At first I was like "YAY!" no school runs 3 times a day, no listening to the lack of progress that my son is making at school, I can just chill with the kidlets. Well that novelty wore off by the end of the first weekend.
I forgot how unstructured school holidays are in comparison to a normal school day. But they all got bored very quickly. Pat was at work for most of the school holidays (perfect timing lol). There is only so many fun filled public activities that I can handle without feeling the need to drink half a bottle of vodka by the time I get home. Please note that I didn't drink throughout the holidays however tempted I was to do so. I decided to start sewing instead. It helped me to destress. Mind you a couple of months ago I was seriously not the sewing type. I thought I would just do it for something to do. So my choice was either sew or drink..... thats what it boiled down to throughout most of the fortnight they had off lol. That was my escape. A good one at that.
On the first Tuesday our youngest went to daycare so I decided to take the twins to cinema. All was good until I then found out the session I had turned up for was in 3d. So it was either see the movie in 3d or wait another hour at the movies for the next one to start. PASS!!! Here we have our first 3d movie experience seeing The Lorax. (sorry the picture isnt too crash hot it was taken on my iPhone.)
We had a ball! Went so much better than I had imagined! Was so funny when Rhiannon tried to grab images that she thought were coming out at her. Except for Cal being slightly overstimulated before the movie we did pretty well.
On the two Thursdays of the holidays I put the twins into care for the day so I could have a break. By god I needed it. A huge thank you to Kath for taking them for the day.
So poor little Cal has had to deal with a huge whack to his routine over the holidays and thats where the "I don't want to go to sleep" started....... fun fun. Idiot me decided to have a movie night with the kids and let them stay up instead of their usual 7.30pm bedtime. BIG MISTAKE!!! It is now a week on and I am still trying to get Cal back into sleeping routine. He is getting better though we are down to 8.30pm he finally goes to sleep as opposed to 11pm lol.
This week is back to school. So far no good. First day he refused to do any work whatsoever (but when I brought him home at 11.30am I managed to get him to do some homework). Yesterday we nearly got a phonecall because he was being disruptive. Honestly I'm not actually holding high hopes for him being there until I am meant to pick him up this morning.
So by the looks of it..... I'm back to square one. On the bright side he has finally got an appointment with DSQ to have an assessment done so we can get some help at all. But his education currently isn't looking overly fantastic. I'm back to the drawing board with this one.
Well I am off for the morning to clean my house that my children have ripped through like a tornado over the holidays lol.
Cheers :)
I forgot how unstructured school holidays are in comparison to a normal school day. But they all got bored very quickly. Pat was at work for most of the school holidays (perfect timing lol). There is only so many fun filled public activities that I can handle without feeling the need to drink half a bottle of vodka by the time I get home. Please note that I didn't drink throughout the holidays however tempted I was to do so. I decided to start sewing instead. It helped me to destress. Mind you a couple of months ago I was seriously not the sewing type. I thought I would just do it for something to do. So my choice was either sew or drink..... thats what it boiled down to throughout most of the fortnight they had off lol. That was my escape. A good one at that.
On the first Tuesday our youngest went to daycare so I decided to take the twins to cinema. All was good until I then found out the session I had turned up for was in 3d. So it was either see the movie in 3d or wait another hour at the movies for the next one to start. PASS!!! Here we have our first 3d movie experience seeing The Lorax. (sorry the picture isnt too crash hot it was taken on my iPhone.)
We had a ball! Went so much better than I had imagined! Was so funny when Rhiannon tried to grab images that she thought were coming out at her. Except for Cal being slightly overstimulated before the movie we did pretty well.
On the two Thursdays of the holidays I put the twins into care for the day so I could have a break. By god I needed it. A huge thank you to Kath for taking them for the day.
So poor little Cal has had to deal with a huge whack to his routine over the holidays and thats where the "I don't want to go to sleep" started....... fun fun. Idiot me decided to have a movie night with the kids and let them stay up instead of their usual 7.30pm bedtime. BIG MISTAKE!!! It is now a week on and I am still trying to get Cal back into sleeping routine. He is getting better though we are down to 8.30pm he finally goes to sleep as opposed to 11pm lol.
This week is back to school. So far no good. First day he refused to do any work whatsoever (but when I brought him home at 11.30am I managed to get him to do some homework). Yesterday we nearly got a phonecall because he was being disruptive. Honestly I'm not actually holding high hopes for him being there until I am meant to pick him up this morning.
So by the looks of it..... I'm back to square one. On the bright side he has finally got an appointment with DSQ to have an assessment done so we can get some help at all. But his education currently isn't looking overly fantastic. I'm back to the drawing board with this one.
Well I am off for the morning to clean my house that my children have ripped through like a tornado over the holidays lol.
Cheers :)
Monday, April 2, 2012
World Autism Day
Today, 2nd of April, is World Autism Day. Where we all put in our part to promote Autism Awareness. For me it is a day I celebrate the little things that we as parents take for granted. Try to push the meltdowns and the problems with school to the back of my mind and take note of the little things that I treasure with my Autism Angel. The fact that every night when I tuck him into bed he jumps back out of bed to give me a kiss and a hug, the "I love you" I get from him all the time. He is a gorgeous little boy who lives with Autism.
Our stats still stand at 1 in 110 kids are diagnosed with Autism where the new stats from the USA is 1 in 88. So what exactly is it. So many of you read my blog but do you all know exactly what it is? This is going to be MY way of promoting Autism Awareness. For starters every single child with Autism is different (I am sure if they were all the same it would make it somewhat easier on us parents lol). They do not look any different to any other child you may meet in the street and there is a possibility that you might not even know that they live with it. One other thing you cannot catch it it is not a disease.
Wikipedia defines Autism as:-
"Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood."
Basically kids with Autism can have, sensory, communication and social interaction problems which can affect them and we don't know why it happens.
There are three classifications of the Autistic Spectrum that people (I say people because in rare cases adults can be diagnosed with Autism as well however normally picked up in childhood) and these are
So what makes Callum have Autistic Disorder?
When Callum was younger he started showing a lot of repetitive behaviour. Things like lining up his cars or toys, having to have the same colour cup or plate or bowl, sitting in the same spot every time he sat at the table. We kind of thought ohh yeah that must be just some kind of little quirk that he has. It wasn't until he had grommets/tubes put in his ears that we really started to notice the sensory issues relating to noise that he had. He couldn't hear much before so noise didn't bother him. We took him to a Wiggles concert at the age of 4....... we haven't done it again lol. Other things like when he eats spaghetti bolognaise he will only eat the pasta with grated cheese as he doesn't like the texture of the meat and sauce in his mouth.
Everything is literal. When he was sleeping on a mattress on the floor (he had a meltdown and broke his bed and was unrepairable) I would tell him to go to bed and he would then inform me that he doesn't have a bed. When he would ask me where I was going I used to say as a joke I was going to the moon.... I don't do that anymore only to his sister hahaha.
They are funny little quirky things that I absolutely love about this kid and it makes me smile. He can transform one of those $100 Bumblebee Transformers that us as adults need the instructions for and still can't get it. Some of the things he can do is just mind blowing. Trust me though I am certainly not saying that having a child with Autism is all rainbows and daisies. It is hard work.
So today I take my hat off to every parent who has a child with Autism. If I could give each and every single one of you a medal I would (or a glass of wine whichever works lol).
Our stats still stand at 1 in 110 kids are diagnosed with Autism where the new stats from the USA is 1 in 88. So what exactly is it. So many of you read my blog but do you all know exactly what it is? This is going to be MY way of promoting Autism Awareness. For starters every single child with Autism is different (I am sure if they were all the same it would make it somewhat easier on us parents lol). They do not look any different to any other child you may meet in the street and there is a possibility that you might not even know that they live with it. One other thing you cannot catch it it is not a disease.
Wikipedia defines Autism as:-
"Autism is a disorder of neural development characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. Autism affects information processing in the brain by altering how nerve cells and their synapses connect and organize; how this occurs is not well understood."
Basically kids with Autism can have, sensory, communication and social interaction problems which can affect them and we don't know why it happens.
There are three classifications of the Autistic Spectrum that people (I say people because in rare cases adults can be diagnosed with Autism as well however normally picked up in childhood) and these are
- Autistic Disorder
- Asperger Syndrome
- Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified (commonly abbreviated as PDD-NOS), which is diagnosed when the full set of criteria for autism or Asperger syndrome are not met.
So what makes Callum have Autistic Disorder?
When Callum was younger he started showing a lot of repetitive behaviour. Things like lining up his cars or toys, having to have the same colour cup or plate or bowl, sitting in the same spot every time he sat at the table. We kind of thought ohh yeah that must be just some kind of little quirk that he has. It wasn't until he had grommets/tubes put in his ears that we really started to notice the sensory issues relating to noise that he had. He couldn't hear much before so noise didn't bother him. We took him to a Wiggles concert at the age of 4....... we haven't done it again lol. Other things like when he eats spaghetti bolognaise he will only eat the pasta with grated cheese as he doesn't like the texture of the meat and sauce in his mouth.
Everything is literal. When he was sleeping on a mattress on the floor (he had a meltdown and broke his bed and was unrepairable) I would tell him to go to bed and he would then inform me that he doesn't have a bed. When he would ask me where I was going I used to say as a joke I was going to the moon.... I don't do that anymore only to his sister hahaha.
They are funny little quirky things that I absolutely love about this kid and it makes me smile. He can transform one of those $100 Bumblebee Transformers that us as adults need the instructions for and still can't get it. Some of the things he can do is just mind blowing. Trust me though I am certainly not saying that having a child with Autism is all rainbows and daisies. It is hard work.
So today I take my hat off to every parent who has a child with Autism. If I could give each and every single one of you a medal I would (or a glass of wine whichever works lol).
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