Sara at Mum Turned Mom started a new linky where she will give you a prompt every week and you can link up a post inspired by her prompt. Every week I have wanted to take part but this pregnancy is really taking its toll on my blogging and my blogging time is interrupted by the need […]
On New Year’s eve Ethan showed us that he could say the word ‘Hello’. I couldn’t believe it but I was so pleased to blog about it for our Small Steps Amazing Achievements Linky. Since that day he has been using the word more and more, keeping everything crossed, I’m so happy to say he
Today is Autism Awareness Day and ironically it’s exactly a year since I gave up work to be Ethan’s full time carer. It was a bittersweet day for me last year and I had very mixed emotions about it that I didn’t want to acknowledge Autism Awareness Day. It was always a goal for me
With the diagnosis of autism came the realisation that Ethan’s journey through the education system would be different from his peers. The luxury of making sure you are happy with your local school, hopefully getting the place you want, and then sending your child there for the first time in September, with the biggest worry
I can’t believe that it was only this time last year that we received Ethan’s autism diagnosis, it feels like autism has been in our world for a lot longer than that. I honestly felt that I was going to have to fight the paediatrician for an autism diagnosis and I walked into the office
