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› Anger issues, autism and smart tabs
Good morning from the household Santorinis! I hope you all are doing good! I’m just sitting here, watching my son sit on the floor switching between watching Daniel Tiger, busses on youtube and listen to his favorite Punjabi song. E is half punjab so for me it doesn’t matter 🥰 It’s so cute when he tries to sing along to the song. I sent video to his father last night of E trying to sing along so he called me and had that broken voice (when you are happy crying) and I said that E is showing more interest of his culture. So here we go when my husband comes home! Exciting!
My husband is a Sikh but we have together agreed to raise E neutral so he can when he is older decide if he wants to be a Sikh, Muslim, Christian or anything he wants. Sometimes we have culture crash between husband and I but we work it out.
Happy child = happy mother.
E has his tab for the first time in 4 months. Before he had the tab all the time(weekends) til he developed anger issues when giving it back for bedtime so me and my husband agreed to remove the tab from him for a while and today I decided to try see how it works. Wish me luck.
we did not punish him for his anger issues. We were consulting with cps (you get automatically involved with them when your child get a diagnosis) and the special hospital (for autism etc) and we all agreed on removing the tab for a while. We have been talking, explaining, used sign languages and pictures to explain why he got mad, what happened to him etc. Unfortunately the school doesn’t listen to what we all have been telling him so they have allowed him using theirs etc but at home it has been fine. So hopefully this will go fine as well.
How is your Sunday?
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› Tears of joy!
What brings a tear of joy to your eye?
What really brings me to tears of joy?
I’m gonna talk first about me being a mother to a child with autism 3 and is non-verbal. Nothing brings me more joy and happiness than watching my son develop and grow. Learning how to talk (not like us though) on his own way with words that are almost correct, sign languages etc. To hear all fantastic progress he do in school, with friends and everyone. Also ofcourse watching my son having fun, laughing, cuddling with me or his father. Getting the family hugs (us three hug together) . Everything with my son to be honest. When he has his tantrums and frustration (not a tear of joy part) and I can help him to calm down. I learn on the same time on what’s working for him and not. The learning part of being able to comfort E the best way gives me joy (maybe not tears of joy).
Laugh til I can’t breathe. That is one favorite thing I have. Whether if it’s joking with E, or he do something that makes me laugh or having goofy time with my husband.
hanging out with friends and we laugh a lot. that’s joy for me.
but shortly; the tears of joy for me is when it comes to my son. The development . The learning. The love. Everything.
What is you tears of joy?
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› End Of The Summer | Tradition Every Year
END OF SUMMER CRUISING
a tradition where I now live. Fun part this year my brother attended with his old American. I had sent him a message asking if he was there and he said yes so I told him that E was standing in his window looking. So cute! it was my brother, one of his daughters and the wife (she drove) and that stopped the cruising just to honk and wave a lot to E 🥰 cutest part; when they drove again, E said “bye bye!” and waved 🥺 that’d adorable.
I love the fact that anyone can join, even if you have a regular car. 🥰 I grew up with old American cars, the rockabilly culture etc so having my son watching this warmed my heart a lot. He likes cars so it was a perfect opportunity to show him a bit of my childhood.
When the cruising was over, E continued to sit next to the window til he was going to sleep 🥺 He wanted to watch so much more. Broke my heart when I had to explain for him that it was over.
but it still warmed my heart ~ he saw a piece of my childhood right outside his bedroom window 🥰
Where we used to live, it never happened things like this. And since we moved here we have seen it three times. Loves it every time. It’s a tradition here in my town. They always have it August 31rst (doesn’t matter if it’s in the middle of the week) just to “drive out” the summer. Now it’s officially autumn / fall here 😍🍂
I have blurred faces that were showing.
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› Cozy celebration with my family | blessed with all love
I‘m honestly very blessed to have my son and husband. Just us three. It’s enough for me. I’m not a party girl so big celebrations isn’t my thing.
While our son was in school, me and my husband went to the city. Some shopping (showing later) and I wanted lunch from Ikea so we went there. We tried Tiramisu (or how it spells) and it was not a cake for me. Luckily they had carrot cake so I took that! Happy happy me!
We left at 8.45am and went back home at 2pm. At home we gave E dinner and afterwards we had a small celebration for me. Maybe til weekend we will have a family day to celebrate me (depends if husband is working or not) . We had some cake but that’s it 🎂 Cozy time though 🥰
#blessedwithalllove
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› Beautiful sunny day with laughter, madness and workouts
Today I had a debate with myself if I would go to the gym or not. I was supposed to go yesterday but I didn’t so I broke my strike in days but it’s fine. Today I felt low on energy so I just wanted to lay in bed and sleep but I dragged myself to the gym which resulted 65 minutes on the treadmill and a painful hip. I wanted to push myself more but I had to stop so I don’t make the pain worse or something else .
after gym I took my beloved energy drink (I just started to drink these the other day. I wanted to try one and boom.. I’m hooked) and took a slow walk next to the sea in the beautiful sunshine. I was gonna meet up my best friend but her bus didn’t come until 20 minutes after so I enjoyed a bit in the sun and later met her.
We went to the grocery store and bought more of my celsius drinks plus other stuff as well. I know I know, energy drinks aren’t good for you to drink so much off and im not drinking more than two (pre-workout and after workout) per day but thank you 🥰
after that we walked around a bit and after we decided to go grab some dinner. I was not in the mood for pizza (I had pizza yesterday) but for chicken salad ..with pineapples! so good! I love pineapples on pizza and in salad. Unfortunately I had to throw away a lot of chicken because I got that feeling.. uhm.. where it “grows in the mouth” you know. I don’t know how to explain in an other way. Anyway, we sat at the pizza place for two hours or so and just talked, laughed, joked and had a wonderful time – just what I needed.
We always order a plate of fries (because we like it) but we always end up throwing away 3/4 of it 😅 thankfully I know what the pizzaplace do with the left over food that’s everyday and it goes to animals (pigs and chickens) so that’s good ☺️
My plans is to go to the gym tomorrow again but it all depend on my hip. On Monday I start school again – yay finally back with one routine in my life (again) and hopefully get the schedule so I can plan my workouts (while son is in school and me after school or when I have day off from school).
What have you done today? Any plans?