Monday, March 25, 2013
Family
We went to visit family last week. It was a 10 hour drive and I thought I was going to lose my mind several times during the trip but it was so worth it. I'm so grateful for family in my life. We laughed, cried, played with our kiddos, went on dates, and ate lots of food. It was so refreshing. I miss them already.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
NKOTB
Today I am grateful for fun times with my kids. We had a 30 minute dance party to NKOTB and I was having a blast. My husband walked in on me singing at the top of my lungs while twirling our son around "uuuhhh uhhh ohhhh you're my cover giiiiiirrrrllll". I was sweating like a pig and it felt amazing. I'm so grateful for those small moments that turn grumpy days into awesome ones.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
friends
it's so nice to be able to go out with a group of girls and just be girls. 3 years ago when I first moved here, I was SO LONELY! I was despairing that I'd never make friends and it had such a huge impacted on my day to day life. I finally made some solid friends, and I'm so grateful that they've accepted me into their lives. HOORAY FOR FRIENDS!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Good Teachers
Today I am grateful for good teachers. Before Milo was in school I had this overwhelming fear that his teacher was going to take advantage of the fact that Milo is special needs. I'd heard a million stories about situations like that and I was terrified it would happen to me. I prayed and prayed to know if his teacher would be a good person. I had many sleepless nights over it and the day that I finally met her I had this calming feeling wash over me "he'll be okay".
Since then I've gotten to know his teacher and I love her. She knows Milo so much now and loves him in her own way. She also is so kind to me and is amazing and understand what I'm going through and does her best to help me find solutions to my insanity.
thank you Mrs. Day! You're the best!
Since then I've gotten to know his teacher and I love her. She knows Milo so much now and loves him in her own way. She also is so kind to me and is amazing and understand what I'm going through and does her best to help me find solutions to my insanity.
thank you Mrs. Day! You're the best!
Monday, February 11, 2013
Milo's Church Bucket
Today I am grateful for small miracles. Sundays have been a mess in our house lately, and it's become a struggle to get through those endlessly long 3 hours at church for Milo.
Milo became a sunbeam this year, which means no toys, no running, no playing. NO THANK YOU! The first week be was in sunbeams he walked right out of class without anyone noticing and walked straight back to nursery and playing with all the toys for one hour before anyone noticed.
The second week he had an insane meltdown. One of the biggest I've ever seen him have. It took me 2 hours to calm him down, and at the end of it I ended up breaking down sobbing to my relief society president when she grazed my arm and asked me "how are you doing?".
We were sick for a while so Milo didn't go for a couple weeks, and during that time I knew I needed to figure something out. He has major debilitating sound sensitivity, and singing time is LOUD. I knew I needed to more transition him into being there %100, rather than chuck him in there and walk away, AND...he needs an aid. like... NOW! but that takes a while too, so in the mean time? It's me.
I was cruising Pinterest.com (doesn't it always have the answers?) and noticed a post about the same thing, and this person had a tupperware container that had comforting items in it for this particular child, and I knew immediately that this is what I needed to do. So I grabbed an empty ice cream bucket and went to work. I put in items that would be calming and soothing and made a PECS binder that had all the items in the bucket on a picture for Milo to request what he needed.
I was sweating bullets the entire time, but we made it through church with zero melt downs. zero.There's a lot of work to do, and Milo still needs to understand how to completely use his bucket, but the no meltdowns made it a victory in my mind.
Hooray for small miracles!
Milo became a sunbeam this year, which means no toys, no running, no playing. NO THANK YOU! The first week be was in sunbeams he walked right out of class without anyone noticing and walked straight back to nursery and playing with all the toys for one hour before anyone noticed.
The second week he had an insane meltdown. One of the biggest I've ever seen him have. It took me 2 hours to calm him down, and at the end of it I ended up breaking down sobbing to my relief society president when she grazed my arm and asked me "how are you doing?".
We were sick for a while so Milo didn't go for a couple weeks, and during that time I knew I needed to figure something out. He has major debilitating sound sensitivity, and singing time is LOUD. I knew I needed to more transition him into being there %100, rather than chuck him in there and walk away, AND...he needs an aid. like... NOW! but that takes a while too, so in the mean time? It's me.
I was cruising Pinterest.com (doesn't it always have the answers?) and noticed a post about the same thing, and this person had a tupperware container that had comforting items in it for this particular child, and I knew immediately that this is what I needed to do. So I grabbed an empty ice cream bucket and went to work. I put in items that would be calming and soothing and made a PECS binder that had all the items in the bucket on a picture for Milo to request what he needed.
I was sweating bullets the entire time, but we made it through church with zero melt downs. zero.There's a lot of work to do, and Milo still needs to understand how to completely use his bucket, but the no meltdowns made it a victory in my mind.
Hooray for small miracles!
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Technology
I know it's silly to say I'm grateful for Technology, but I am. Without it I wouldn't have all the amazing memories of my past. I took a video of Abbott splashing in the tub today and I remembered that I took a video of Milo in the tub when he was the same age. I went back into my old folders and found it. I couldn't believe how much he had changed, and it was so fun comparing them and how very different and similar they are.
Here's Milo's Video:
Here's Abbotts Video:
My two cute little babies.
Here's Milo's Video:
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