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by PDA ParentingSeptember 30, 2016September 30, 2016

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Last month a new and exciting book launched entitled ‘The Spectrum Girl’s Survival Guide – How to Grow Up Awesome and Autistic’ by Siena Castellon: “Knowing that each of us has the power to make a positive difference to someone’s life is what led me to write this book.” I find it inspiring that the young author has also crowdfunded to reach her target of sending a copy of her book to every state secondary school in the country - giving back to her community makes her a worthy role model in my opinion. Anyway the full review can be found in my main bio and I’ll share some info later on in my stories. #bookreview #booksconnectus #actuallyautistic #autistic #autismacceptancemonth #autismacceptance #autismswareness #autismawarenessmonth #autism #spectrumgirls #girlsonthespectrum

Last night, some of my lovely old uni mates got together (with a few virtual bevvies!) and we created our own quiz. It was so nice to catch up and we had a few technical glitches getting started but overall it was such a good evening and who knew that jam jars are better to drink from?! Just ask Annie for her DIY tips! Last weekend we had a big reunion planned (and paid for) in the Big Smoke. We had taken a few years to finally get this organised and we were all so excited but it just wasn’t to be.😢 It was something I was so looking forward to, especially to have a well needed break from my caring duties, but more importantly to see some people who I’ve spent so many years growing and loving dearly. Well we worked out the smartest out of the group (perhaps unexpectedly) but it was our @goodbyekitty80 👏 who stole it with her knowledge of music and 80’s kids TV! 🤣 So many things made me chuckle (too many to write about) but Alison chomping on her snacks, with @pea169 spinning over on her corporate chair and @nazneen.nawaz ’s hoodie (where did you pick that up from?!) had to be a few to mention! Lovely to also see Leanne, Amber and @susiesnoozi too ❤️ sorry couldn’t tag you both for some reason. John we needed you there too! I had a confession to make that I didn’t even write my own questions- I nearly missed this quiz so a good person stepped in with a topic to help me out so I could take part. After a few wines I even wasn’t capable of reading them out! 🙊 Hope everyone is having a good weekend so far and what are you all doing whilst being at home? #stayhome #stayhealthy #savenhs #socialdistancing #virtualquiz #lifeisbetterwithfriends

When you ask your 7 year old child to make a poster on ways to prevent the #coronavirus from spreading and she writes this nugget of information!👇 . . . . . . . . . . #stayhome #stayathome #staythefuckhome #pewithjoe #covıd19 #corona #covid2020 #covidmemes #covid #preventativehealth #preventionisbetterthancure #socialdistancing #joewicks #joewicksbodycoach #parentingtheshitoutoflife

Give us this day our daily bread! 🍞🥖 This was a really fun activity to do this morning - although our bread was rock hard and we were hoping to feast on it at lunchtime🙊! Nevertheless, my girls had fun taking part and we made a new lunch instead rather than eat our bricks!🤣 I’ve included the recipe in case anyone wants to try it and please do send us your photos as we would love to see how it should have turned out!! You can tap into our stories to see how we got on... I’m struggling with having any time to use this page or reply to any messages but I would love to hear from any followers to see how you all are. Keep safe everyone and hope you are all surviving the challenges that we have being at home for SEND families😊 #stayhome #stayhealthy #homeschoollife #homemade #homecooking #coronavid19 #coronavirus #kidsactivityideas #homelearning #sendblog #funlearning

🌟Hallelujah for PE with Joe Wicks🌟 Today has been another struggle for us and I feel that I have to write about the reality of being socially isolated - I can’t just post the happy pictures as they won’t represent the majority of our day. I know everyone will be feeling the strain of being cooped up and maybe the difficulty of trying to home school their offspring. For some of us SEND families, the change in routines are so overwhelming, and often we just can’t reason with our children. Some families will have the extra dimension that their children are non-verbal and to explain why they are not following safe, set routines is just impossible. So many of us are just riding the storm as best we can as the only option we have. I cannot begin to explain how many meltdowns occurred that were high risk today and I felt scared for safety reasons. Impulse control is so poor and many items were thrown chaotically. We had a very near miss with my TV, internet router and printer so close to being broken. The fear of not having those things right now was unimaginable - they feel like our life savers. As another online friend posted, this is so hard when juxtaposed with photos online of families who are schooling their children so successfully, as it can make us feel that we are just failing. It’s not that we can’t be happy for everyone else but it’s a stark reminder of how explosive our own lives are in comparison. But I’ll share the positive moment from today and that was doing our online PE lesson with Joe Wicks. We laughed so much and lifted our spirits up, especially when @thebodycoach tried to run up the walls in his Spider-Man reps (please tell me you all saw that part too?!). In true PDA parenting fashion I had to be the loser and not be able to keep up with the kids (I wasn’t actually acting!) and of course ‘blankie’ took part too. For that snapshot of the day we felt like a happy, united family. Lastly, here are our rainbows 🌈 that have gone up in our window, for others to see on their rainbow trails. If a rainbow signifies peace and serenity then let’s hope they will bring those two things our way for tomorrow🤞

Birthdays are always a little bit difficult for our household - this year even more so. I try to not have any expectations as a SEND parent, but this year knowing we were socially isolated made it that bit tougher. You see, my autistic girl finds the demands of festivities such as birthdays hard to handle, she exploded this morning as soon as cards were given and cried to me “mummy I just can’t cope with birthdays.” I gave her a big hug and said it was ok and that she needn’t to worry (she was stressed at how many expletives she had screamed at me before), I reminded her that it was just another day when the Earth orbits the Sun and she smiled digesting the fact. There were multiple meltdowns from the kids and myself as the adult - it felt like survival at its best. Needless to say a lot of tears were shed, but no doubt, other parents will be feeling that too with the difficult circumstances we all find ourselves in. The only thing is that today is no different to past years - there were times when she was excluded from school and she cried on me saying she wished she could be good. So as it’s getting dark and I’m letting the kids run off steam in the garden (probably to the neighbours dismay😬) I tried to think about the positives of today over a much needed glass of wine. I realised that I have received lots of cards, gifts and words through messages today and that they mean a lot. Also, the maturity my girl is showing that she knew she found this hard and is trying her best to manage her heightened emotions, shows such progress and I’m sure her new school has had such an impact. Tomorrow brings a new day as her school has been forced to close and this news will be hard to digest. It will be extremely difficult to now manage as a one parent family at home without an idea of how long it will be for. My job from home schooling the other two siblings has now changed to being their protector at all times. Just as that bombshell was dropped, the door knocked and a package was left on the doorstep, with some flowers and a note to accompany it.

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