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› Life update / crispy days.
October 30th.. already. I still can’t get my mind follow the life time because I can’t believe it’s already November! now that is insane! and only two months ish left of 2024..
It’s very cold outside here in north part of Sweden. The ice is here and minus degree celsius as well. Insane! I’m not ready, not mentally or physically 😪 but here we go.
So i have been quiet in the blog for a few days. I have been super busy with school, meetings, son and his new lifestyle etc. It’s an all mess right now but im still here. I see your comments and love but unfortunately I can not answer them via mobile (it always crash for me when I do) so I’m gonna answer everyone of your comments and love TONIGHT! Looking forward to get connected with you all again 💕 Sorry for all this.
Whats new? Well my son has gotten a new lifestyle we all adjust to (it’s normal with autistic children/people to get medicines, new routines, structures etc) which is taking some time but hopefully it will get better soon. We have noticed a few changes on E since we started. He is more calm, not so much anxious, being extremely hyper etc and he can focus better in school etc which is amazing!
E has also learned to count to 40, sing a long songs with almost perfect pronouncing of words plus sign languages. He has found his love for big Lego again (toys). It is so much better and so much new things E is showing us and we finding out from everyone 💕 so proud!
How have you been?? Something new and exciting or just something positive that has happened in your life since last? 💕 Comment below. Let’s connect 💕💕
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› 5 things I am grateful for
5 things I am grateful for is kinda hard to think out because I am grateful for so many things. All from my son, to my education, to my interests but I’ll try write five things and maybe in future I can write more. Lol!
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● My son & family
I will forever be thankful / grateful for my son who’s a miracle. Growing up the doctors told me to give up my dream (to become a mother) because it would never happen because I’ve PCOS. Yet here I am. A mother for soon seven years. I’m thankful that I have made my own family. A lifepartner and son. My family.
● Education
Growing up I had hard time in school – bullying. No help from teachers or what so ever. But today I have an education – nurse assistant and I am currently studying my old grades up to I can become a preschool teacher. The nurseasssitant education was actually a promise to my mother before I died. She wanted my and my siblings to become a nurse so we would help people more than we did.
● Finding myself
I’m still working on myself and forever will but lately I have found myself a little bit. I’ve managed to get my real style out in public and not being hiding behind other clothes. I dyed my hair neon red again. I have managed to find focus and things to make myself feel better.
● Emma Santorini blog
I’m actually very very grateful for this blog. Even thought I haven’t been updating so much lately (I have posted like 80 posts since august). I’m grateful because I write my thoughts out. Write my life like a journal. Share photographs I’ve taken, ideas, and share my opinions of things.
● YOU!
I’m so grateful for you! Why? Because you are you! Never change for anyone. Never change yourself. I’m grateful because you are here. Life is hard but I’m here to help if you need someone to talk.●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●
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› What are some things that make you smile?
What are some things that make you smile? that is actually one hard question. There is so many things but my absolute number one thing that makes me smile is my son.
Pic from our roadtrip we did. Oct 12th 2024 Watching my boy growing up. See how proud he is when he manage to say words that we would understand. How he manage to have cracked the code for talking and saying few words and tries to say full sentences.
What make me smile is watching my son grow up and become independent, which he already is now but not on everything but mostly everything.
My son has autism. To be correct, he has autism 3 (the hardest autism) and is non verbal (can’t talk like us) so you can all understand my smiles and my happiness whenever E has learned to say a new word.
He tries really hard and he has improved so so much. He say or try to say words but he also sign them. If we do not understand him, we guess til he shows us that it was correct. Or if he is impatient he will just grab our hand and show us.
so this is one thing that will forever make me smile.. My beloved son 💕
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› What makes you the most happy?
In my notepad on my phone I have questions I found online that I thought could he fun to answer here.on my blog. You can get to know me and I can continue be personal and be myself.
Copy the question in bold and make a post with your answer on your blog. Tag me and I will read like and comment 🥰
What makes you the most happy?
Honestly, a lot of things make me happy. My son and family. Makeup/skincare. Photography. Family quality time. School even though I’ve a hard time. Cooking&baking. Blogging. The sea.
What makes me the absolute most happy though? Watch my son grow up and become this bigger and proud boy of himself. Become the little young man he is.
How about you?
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› A fun way for a child to entertain themselves
I have found a fun way for my son to entertain himself while I do the laundry. Practice writing numbers and letters. Yes it is the calender but he writes on months that has passed already. Not the current month or months that is coming up. I am so proud of him for how much he has developed since he started the school he attends now. When he was in preschool, they isolated him from other children so he never learned how to be a friend, wait for his turn etc. He never learned how to write etc so I stepped up and taught him. So now since he started in school he has developed so much – he say the letters and he counts to 29 but struggle saying 30. It has happened so fast but I am so proud and happy. In school they are practicing writing the letters but he already knew them. Also counting the numbers is something he has been taught at home so he were impressing the teachers at school when he counted so they decide to keep teach him more numbers so they and we are working on that.
E is not attending a regular school. He is attending a special need school because he has autism but I am forever thankful for the teachers and how much they have taught him on one year. He is in second grade right now and I can’t believe that he is that big!So a simple way to entertain a child while doing laundry(or any other activity) so they learn numbers and letters -> Let them write in a calender with passed months! My son loves it and said over and over again (he did four months) “one more!”. He wanted to write them all!