Thursday, 6th March 2014 was a surreal day. I did not experience an instant connection with my infant, mainly because we met about 17 hours after her birth. I was completely out of it. Post-theatre, I fell into a deep sleep from all the trauma...
Today is April 2nd, World Autism Day, I slept way past regular sleeping hours. I could not sleep thinking about my daughter and everything that she has had to endure and grow from as an Autistic not-yet-verbal child. When sleep finally claimed me, I was...
5 years today. 5 years since I made a drastic move to walk out of my marriage and marital home. It was a tough few years but today…I would not do anything different. I watched myself give in to despair, I watched myself put one...
The past three months have been the most I have been busy in almost 4 years. I have not written blog posts as regularly as I used to. Working two jobs, running my home, settling my girls into two new different schools, helping the girls...
I always notice time, how long it’s been since a certain occurrence. It’s been 1 year since I moved to my current house. This is the first time I have had nearly perfect peace in my adult years. I say nearly because I do not...
It’s Autism Month!! I have been in the Autism community for 9 years now. It has been both high highs and low lows. Never in between. I would not change it for anything because that means I may want my daughter different from whom she...
We made it over. Do people still do that, “New Year, New me” business? I do not believe that, change is a journey. I do not have resolutions either, rather, I have goals. I’ve been working on some since last year, some further than that,...
I have been meaning to talk about the bright side of Autism and how raising a child on the spectrum can be surprisingly joyful. I have been meaning to do that. And I will. Just not today. Today I had a panic attack, nothing new....
I giggled. When I was first presented with an official document to fill out my details. I giggled when I had to fill out my marital status. I was torn whether to point out I am divorced or single. Yes, I am divorced, it was...
Warning: Trigger content. My sister and I are 16 months apart, I planned for our children to be the same but the universe had other plans and delayed them by 3 months. Our daughters are 19 months apart, but still, good time. Every time I hear...
