Patience, Love, and Hope with a Side of Autism and Fishies
Life Lessons & Adventures Raising Children on the Autism Spectrum
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week and I have been so excited to take part in spoiling the teachers at my son’s school. The sentiments aren’t necessarily grand and outdone, but they were planned with love and compassion and, above all, immense appreciation for these incredible individuals who move mountains for our kids everyday. Teaching is such … Continue reading Appreciate the Little Things
Picking up Nico after school is something new for me. He took the bus home his Kinder year and all last year he was learning from home, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into this year. He is dismissed at 3pm and; yet, it is a parenting battle of wills to … Continue reading If Not Me, Then Who?
Today autism won. Today it got the best of my Nico and me. I learned today that even though Nico has grown in so many ways, he is beginning to struggle with new issues that will bring about all new coping mechanisms for both him and my husband and me. Today I felt like I … Continue reading Being Seen
Today was Nico’s last day of school. He is officially a 2nd grader and we can finally close the door on this challenging, yet thriving school year. It seems surreal to think that Nico literally spent a whole academic year in a virtual learning environment and there were times where I didn’t think any of … Continue reading One Year Can Make A World of Difference
I have been very antsy as of late. Christmas is less than a week away and although I have been done with my shopping for awhile now, I am still unsettled. Normally, in the past, it was because I knew that Christmas Day wouldn’t be as magical for Nico as it was for other children, … Continue reading For All the Firsts
This last month has been filled with some really amazing highs and some incredible lows. Such is life, I suppose, but when you're trying to wade through the tumultuousness of a nationwide pandemic--while raising a child with Autism in the midst of it--the highs just don't ring as high and the lows leave a more … Continue reading When Family Shows Up
2020 has truly thrown me some curve balls and the year isn’t even over yet. I feel like once the summer came the days blurred together and I haven’t been able to catch my breath or tell one day from the next. I’m sure I’m not alone. This year seems like it will go down … Continue reading Music Can Move Mountains
I wish I could freeze time. Right now. Just freeze it as it stands—regardless of all the chaos that is enveloping our world at the moment—because Nico is having an amazing summer. I don’t think I have ever felt this at ease with my son in the five and a half years since his diagnosis. … Continue reading Freeze Frame
I don’t think there is any stronger love than that of a mother’s. There is not anything I wouldn’t do for Nico to make his life easier, less of a struggle, more fulfilled, or more neurotypical. I have made ultimate sacrifices for him that have truly tested my faith, patience, and resolve, but I literally … Continue reading A Mother’s Love
Mother's Day will forever be a bittersweet day for me; I yearn for my mother to be by my side. It's one of life's real cruelties to lose a mother, especially at a young age, because a mother's love is one that can never be replicated. It's one of a kind. The bond my mother … Continue reading To My Boys on Mother’s Day
Patience, Love, and Hope with a Side of Autism and Fishies 