Now that is something I never thought I would say again. The past five years of my life has been devoted to my children. I have been busy making sure they have everything they need, running them to therapy, school and various events. Now they are in school, they get on the bus at seven and get off at three. I have so much time and not much to do. I have put my name at the school to volunteer in the classrooms, lunch room etc.
In addition I have started to help out at the church every day for two to three hours, doing various office work that is needed. I just started this week and am very blessed that I have some thing to do other than clean house all day long. While to some it may not seem like much, shredding documents, cleaning the sanctuary, and preparing the bulletins, it is still God's work and I am sure that our family will be blessed by my being a small part of making our great church work and run as it does.
School is going great for the kids, really great. John Michael has had some minor issues over the last few weeks but nothing that is too concerning.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
What a wonderful day we had
We went ot church as a family this morning, okay so we always do that. Then after we all went to lunch together, close to my husbands new office. We were able to see where he will be working, which just so happens to be close to a Dairy Queen, so after the tour we all were treated to ice cream. The kids were so good the entire time.
At lunch they ate their entire meal, stayed seated at all times and were just great kids all morning. So I guess today was our one step forward. I am hoping that hte two steps back takes a while to get here.
We have big plans for the upcoming future, we will be traveling to Mississippi where we will go with my mother to a local camp ground that caters to children 7 and younger. We will stay in a cabin for two days, camping, having a camp fire at night, spending time in the day at the water park that is designed for younger children. When we return I will update with informaiton about the park etc, name location for anyone that is interested but for now I am not going to publicize where we are going for safety reasons. Okay I may be over reacting, but you never know.
A week from today Vacation Bible School starts at our Church and for the first time we are going to have a special needs class. We have several children in our church that have autisim, aspergers, SPD and Downs. One of the moms asked me If I would be interesed in teaching a class of special needs children, as most the children are in the same age group we deiced to not single them out but to have them in their class, however one mom (me and another mom) will be in these classes at all times to help the teachers and to assist if any issues arise. As we did nto want to burdon the teachers who know nothing about the issues that come with SPD etc.
So now our special needs children can attend VBS and their parents can be assured that they will be well cared for. The best thing is, word has gotten out in our community that our church offers this, enrollemnt for VBS is up by close to 35, with several of them being special needs. We are hoping that this will be a start for our church to reach out to these families, to show them that the church looks welcomes these families into our church and that we will do what we can to make them feel included and not singled out of any of the activities.
Good for us...
At lunch they ate their entire meal, stayed seated at all times and were just great kids all morning. So I guess today was our one step forward. I am hoping that hte two steps back takes a while to get here.
We have big plans for the upcoming future, we will be traveling to Mississippi where we will go with my mother to a local camp ground that caters to children 7 and younger. We will stay in a cabin for two days, camping, having a camp fire at night, spending time in the day at the water park that is designed for younger children. When we return I will update with informaiton about the park etc, name location for anyone that is interested but for now I am not going to publicize where we are going for safety reasons. Okay I may be over reacting, but you never know.
A week from today Vacation Bible School starts at our Church and for the first time we are going to have a special needs class. We have several children in our church that have autisim, aspergers, SPD and Downs. One of the moms asked me If I would be interesed in teaching a class of special needs children, as most the children are in the same age group we deiced to not single them out but to have them in their class, however one mom (me and another mom) will be in these classes at all times to help the teachers and to assist if any issues arise. As we did nto want to burdon the teachers who know nothing about the issues that come with SPD etc.
So now our special needs children can attend VBS and their parents can be assured that they will be well cared for. The best thing is, word has gotten out in our community that our church offers this, enrollemnt for VBS is up by close to 35, with several of them being special needs. We are hoping that this will be a start for our church to reach out to these families, to show them that the church looks welcomes these families into our church and that we will do what we can to make them feel included and not singled out of any of the activities.
Good for us...
Monday, April 27, 2009
JM has a bad day at Church- one step forward, one step back
Yesterday was not a good day for John Michael at church, he was so overly excited all day long and nothing I could do would calm him down. He got in trouble at Sunday School, Kid Jam and then again at Mission Friends. He just could not seem to center himself no matter what any of us did.
I tried joint compression, deep pressure and even quiet time. The only thing that got him settled was putting him to bed. He went right to sleep and woke up a different child. He was great at school today. IN fact his teacher was very impressed with how well he was behaved.
So one bad day equals one really good day. One step forward, one step back.
We also did his parent teacher conference today. I was very happy with the results of his progress in class and how far he has come this year. He is writing his name, knows all his letters, numbers and shapes. So all good news on that front.
His teacher thinks he would do well in Kindergarten but that I should separate him fro the other two and maybe all three should be in their own room. But that is a different topic all together.
I tried joint compression, deep pressure and even quiet time. The only thing that got him settled was putting him to bed. He went right to sleep and woke up a different child. He was great at school today. IN fact his teacher was very impressed with how well he was behaved.
So one bad day equals one really good day. One step forward, one step back.
We also did his parent teacher conference today. I was very happy with the results of his progress in class and how far he has come this year. He is writing his name, knows all his letters, numbers and shapes. So all good news on that front.
His teacher thinks he would do well in Kindergarten but that I should separate him fro the other two and maybe all three should be in their own room. But that is a different topic all together.
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