I was flicking through one of my social media sites today and was looking at all the posts on my feed. Many of them are posts from people as they share their holiday preparations, get togethers, traditions and random pictures of other holiday events, like school concerts.
As I looked at the posts, scrolling past my eyes, it made me start to think about our Read the rest of this entry »
As I was driving Michael from track practice this week, he and I noticed that one house had recently decorated for Easter. There were several very large Easter bunnies in the front yard, a pretty holiday wreath on the front door and about 1,427 colored Easter eggs scattered on the front yard. That house was a true melody of pastel colors and so fun to look at.
As we passed by the house Michael said “Remember how much Elizabeth liked to do Easter egg hunts?” “Yes!!!!” I told him. And we talked about how many times she liked to hide the eggs as well as hunt them. I told Michael that there were many things she liked in the whole Easter celebration but that many of them took some work to allow her to enjoy them. This was due to her special needs of global dyspraxia and sensory processing disorder ( SPD). I told Michael we had to learn how to make the activities fun and low anxiety for her.
This got me thinking that now that we are 21 Easters into this journey, maybe I could share some of the things we did to help Elizabeth and maybe one or two of them can be used by you for your child. So here we go: Read the rest of this entry »
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