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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!
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› We are home!!
Finally we are back home. Now I can relax for real. Just waiting on a phone call from the doctor to tell me how it went etc.
When E woke up he didn’t want to stay and wanted to go right away. Even though he was affected of the anesthesia. After he woke up he was back to normal after 15 minutes so I decided we didn’t need to call my sister-in-law. We didn’t need the ride.
Ice cream from the nurse and almost 50cl water when he woke up.
I am truly super proud of E because he did so good.
This was the scariest thing I have ever been through.
Yeah I just wanted to update you all and now I’m gonna relax for real. Edit some photographs I have taken so I can upload them here. 🥰
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› From the bottom of my heart | Thankful and very grateful
oh my god. I totally forgot to write “Happy 1 month anniversary ” to my blog yesterday. I have been blogging for 32 days now and with this post, I have uploaded 66 posts. That’s crazy!
I just want to say Thank you everyone! For all the love, follow, comments and likes. The communication with me and everything. Thank you for visiting my little blog and share so much positive feedback even though my blog is all over different kind of niches.
Thank you everyone for this opportunity and this month. I am so glad I decided to start blogging again. I hope you all continue showing me all this love 🥰
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› Saturday Gallery | Quality time, road trip – nature & the sea
it was a too gorgeous day to not go on a little roadtrip the three of us. E, my husband and I. We had no destination in mind. We just drove. Enjoying the nature, the sun and having quality time with the family.
It all started when M came home from work. Tired as he was he always make sure E is happy. After being home for two hours, laughed and had fun with E. I suggested that we could go on a car ride. When I was in Norway, my husband and E went out every weekend on car rides and we have it as well when M is home.
So we went out. E as happy as he could be. Just the three of us. It was a perfect moment.
We actually drove to a resort by the sea. My husband knows I love the sea and took me to the sea. Unfortunately I couldn’t get out of the car as much as I wanted but it’s ok. All the photos are taking through carwindow.
The car ride started that M needed to go to the pharmacy. He was there and came out with an ice cream for E. The happiness of E! And after that we just drove and drove. Two hours in a car. Iam actually surprised that E was so calm (autism etc) and he was so happy. And I was happy. My family, having a quality time. And ofcourse, I got to see the sea!
It is something special with the sea. I feel calm next to it. The view. The sounds. The smells. It calms my soul I wish I was able to go to the sea daily. I can during weekdays but it’s too crowded and it’s not a .. sea sea view you know.
I might sound weird but I feel as most “home” when I’m next to water. Lake, river or the Sea. I’m drawn to the water. Always have. My mom told me when I was younger (I spoke to her about the water etc before she passed) I always wanted to be in water. When I was in it, it was very difficult to get me out of it. “You were like a fish in the water” she said. I have always had a love for the water. not the drinking water or bottle waters but you know. Haha!
Why is it that iam so drawn to waters ? I love it, I can swim for hours. But I have a phobia for deep waters. If I can’t feel the bottom or see my feets when I’m in the water I get panic.
oops got out of hand here with the post but it is fine. I just wanted to show some pictures (I will post them better later) and talk about our family roadtrip.
I hope you all have a beautiful saturday! I’m actually off to bed. Goodnight & thank you everyone for all the visits, like, comments and just sharing love 🥰
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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?