Once again, I start something with lots of idealistic commitment goals – aaand disappear. I actually used to have an online thing through another site years ago, chronicling the day to day craziness of my methy life and I managed to keep that up till the site went down, so Ill get into a good rhythm here. Like anything else, just takes time & practice.
So, COVID 19. Messed up. My work is considered essential so my routine has basically stayed the same, just with more sanitizer and less impulsive spending. Still see my son on the weekends so that’s the main thing. My mom’s been having a bit of a rough patch health wise though, so thats been hard, and pretty scary sometimes. Not ready to go into details on that though.
Another tough thing is the lack of appointments with my son’s SLP. He’s been making some progress and I dont want him to regress too much (I know some is inevitable) We learned a couple new signs though – “help” and “why”. Id see him struggling with something, and half the time he’d get angry if I asked if he wanted some help, the other half Id keep quiet and he’d get mad because he couldnt do it… Now he’s starting to ask for help using the sign so that puts some of the control back in his hands, so to speak.
The “why” is so important though … I keep telling him there’s so much to learn about things that we dont always think to explain, and that him asking or signing “why” will let us know when he wants to know more. Fingers crossed, Im really gonna work on that one this weekend!
One of the downsides to waiting so long between writing, is that there’s so much to write that it just feels scattered and messy and too much… So Im gonna leave it at this, and try to get myself more mentally focused.
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