New Years Eve

A year of hopes,dreams,sadness, laughs, tears, joy and love comes to an end. Now to start it all over again only this year strive to be more compassionate, loving and understanding. Most of all strive to be there when needed for all of those you love.

Is it New Years Yet?

House has been busy today coloring pictures, cutting out shapes, reading, playing computer games, DS, Leapster and talking. It is a joy to be around young children with such imaginative minds. The keys is to never suppress their imagination and creativity for that is one key to their winning in this world.

There they blow!

Been a busy day first my autistic son had a meltdown. You know the type yelling, stomping and running around. He calmed down after everyone left him alone sitting in a chair for a timeout. He practiced his deep breathing while he sat.
Then my ADD daughter did one with the attempting to kick and hit and spit at others. I used redirection to channel her energy into art project of course my son got involved as well. Thus, both were defused and had a happy time drawing and coloring.

A slow day for all here

The magic of a sink full of soapy water, some plastic cookies cutters and a pitcher in the kitchen sink is a wonder to both my ADD and Autistic children. Not to mention my daughters new art supply set and my son on the computer playing games as well after reading a book to me. Hope your day is going well for you and yours.

Some Information that I have found helpful for ADD

"Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child"
Edward M. Hallowell M.D. (Author), Peter S. Jensen (Author) This is a great resource. The book above also recommends this website WWW.Kolbe.com there is a price to pay for some online testing but the information should help you in your desire to give your child the best help that you can for recognizing that they have a wonderful gift not a disability.
I know that it is very hard to see them having a gift but you are at least instilling in your child a great gift that you as a parent can give, the gift of hope!

The day after!

Ah Christmas is over now my children are enjoying some of the gifts they have received. Unfortunately one gift my daughter received was a hefty stomach virus. Yes we could tell something was up when she changed from the usual bouncing all around, little butterfly to a snail. Then puff, they real deal vomiting like mad! This continued until she was taken to a hospital to help her keep fluids down.
Thus, Christmas for her was a combination of opening gifts, sleeping and illness. I told her that we could feel when she was not feeling well for her race car brain with the braking power of a bicycle, seemed to be in neutral. She smiled a curled up in my arms to sleep. She is very loving at times but as all of us with children of special needs know, this can turn around in a nano second. Yes it is a challenge having these two children but they are well worth all of the effort! May you all find inner peace during this time that lasts you forever.

Why I started this blog

This is my feeble attempt to jot down my observations and every day life experiences with raising two children. My first child is a boy, age 7. He has a form of autism and is a handful at times. My second child is a girl, age 6 with ADD. When you combine these two you get a household of surprises and lots of activity to say the least.
This blog is going to be filled with errors as it progresses for I find that life is full of errors made with the best of intentions. So stick around ad see how this progresses. Who knows you might just see something you have not seen before or at least get a laugh.