Thanksgiving
I am a little late with posting this, since it's the evening before Thanksgiving day, already, for most of you. But here's a really cute, feel-good holiday craft that I first did when teaching a bunch of special-needs kids... CLICK ME DESPITE THE TIMING, AND LOOK AT THE TOP OF MY ARCHIVE!
Since that's late, I'm going to get slightly ahead with something else, and wish those of you that are celebrating it, a Happy Thanksgiving. Whether you celebrate it or not, I'm going to put out there that I'm thankful for you. In one way or another -- for some of you, in many ways -- you contribute to my life.
That could get a lot longer....you know it could!....but one blip is late and I'm making sure to put the other down early, because things have been....uh....well, I'm thankful....I am, but.... Things with Jamie have been pretty harsh, lately. To give you a glimpse, it took four hours today for me to get Jamie over a really bad sensory/autistic....episode. After we made it over that peak, we were still on treacherous ground, but at least we were pointed towards a peaceful valley far, far, far, far below. I told a friend that at that point I was smiling....smiling like someone who was released from a dark, locked cell after a long time, to take a pleasant Springtime walk in the sunshine....through a minefield. When Jamie crashed for bedtime tonight, after only 9 hours awake, the meltdown that ended his day was triggered by....what had happened with daddy (and it was something that would only trigger problems with the neuro-disabled) seven and a half hours before.
And that's it for now, because I am completely out of spoons. In fact, I've been running on the ghosts of spoons, for a few days now.
Since that's late, I'm going to get slightly ahead with something else, and wish those of you that are celebrating it, a Happy Thanksgiving. Whether you celebrate it or not, I'm going to put out there that I'm thankful for you. In one way or another -- for some of you, in many ways -- you contribute to my life.
That could get a lot longer....you know it could!....but one blip is late and I'm making sure to put the other down early, because things have been....uh....well, I'm thankful....I am, but.... Things with Jamie have been pretty harsh, lately. To give you a glimpse, it took four hours today for me to get Jamie over a really bad sensory/autistic....episode. After we made it over that peak, we were still on treacherous ground, but at least we were pointed towards a peaceful valley far, far, far, far below. I told a friend that at that point I was smiling....smiling like someone who was released from a dark, locked cell after a long time, to take a pleasant Springtime walk in the sunshine....through a minefield. When Jamie crashed for bedtime tonight, after only 9 hours awake, the meltdown that ended his day was triggered by....what had happened with daddy (and it was something that would only trigger problems with the neuro-disabled) seven and a half hours before.
And that's it for now, because I am completely out of spoons. In fact, I've been running on the ghosts of spoons, for a few days now.