A Not So Typical World
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This blog is about my family’s journey with our mental health and our son autism diagnosis.
05/23/2023
We had a great weekend and a wonderful Monday!
What all these days have in common was one thing, Water!
We all love being near the water and swimming so living across the street from a beach is great for the summer.
Water is incredibly therapeutic for Aaron so we were fortunate that he was pretty much born swimming.
We spent all of Saturday afternoon at the lake across the street from our home!
Aaron lasted almost 5 hours 😲
We got home and we were all burnt and tired but I couldn’t have asked for a better day!
Then the kids went swimming again on Sunday and then once more today after school.
I really hope this pattern continues this summer!
Today I was able to attend Aaron’s track and field day. I was nervous that he would not want to participate.
But look at him in the front of a line with his classmates behind him, perfectly happy to be there. Getting ready to play a football rely race with 5th graders from all seven elementary schools in our school district.
He didn’t try to go home with me. He was able to finish the field trip, and ride the bus back to school.
I love seeing the amount of progress he’s made in the last year.
Before this school year he refused any group activities at school. This year I only had to keep him home for one field trip.
This is proof that if you keep working on skills progress will happen ❤️
03/27/2023
It’s the first Monday for my kids spring break.
We aren’t going on any vacations or family trips when most of our friends are.
To say that I don’t feel envy that our family’s school breaks look different from most other families is a lie because I would love to take an elaborate trip right now but…
A trip would just be too overwhelming for our family when there wouldn’t be enough time to allow for decompression before the kids would go back to school.
Aaron needs that decompression so I try my best to meet him where he is at.
He’s having a hard time right now trying to catch his brain up to his growing body so a spring break at home is our best option.
But this post purpose is to show what a good day we’ve had despite having to take it easy for this break.
We live in Minnesota so it not very warm but the weather, even though not perfect, was nice enough to get outside and play.
Aaron is a homebody and prefers to stay inside, but my daughter asked to walk to the park across the street from us, and Aaron was very happy to join us.
We didn’t stay long but I set my iPhone timer for one hour. That gives me a reminder to push for him to be out a little bit longer than he prefers, and gives his sister more time to play.
Aaron didn’t ask to go home until the timer only had about 5 more minutes to go!! This is a big win for us since we’ve been in a harder season and I only had to tell him, “Just 5 more minutes!”
So then we walked home and grabbed some Dunkin’ on the way!
I don’t know how the rest of this break will go but I just wanted to show off this win 💜💜
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