Capture Life

It is finally summer and I get to have you and your sisters all to myself. I no longer have to share you with school. I have so many fun things planned for the four of us; like our trip to the park today to cool off in the water sprays. Having a special needs child, sometimes even the simple outings that "normal people" take for granted can be challenging for us. Your sensory needs make it hard for you to be around large crowds of people or even sometimes to feel the grass between your toes. You hate getting dirty and freak at new experiences. A lot of planning goes into the actives I plan for you. But once we find something you love, you become happily involved in it. (Although sometimes it takes a lot of pushing for you even to try it). Today was one of those days. You did not want to go to the water sprays with your sisters. It was too icky ewe you said. But after some sour looks and a lot of pushing from your momma, you saw how much fun your sisters were having and decided to give it a go. Your energy and spirit delight and captivate me; I watch you grow, playing in the water sprays at the park and I feel deliriously blessed to have been chosen to be your mother. What an honor, what a gift I’ve been given. When you touch my cheek and press your face to mine, when you whisper “I ohh you me mama”, when you beg me, giggling like crazy, to kiss you “100 times”, I make a silent promise to always drink you in – every ounce of you, every little bit of the essence of who you are, even the little quirks that make you uniquely you. I see you, I see your light; it is brilliant, and blinding, and magnificent. I dreamed of you, but I never knew, how sweet…how lovely...Autism and all.



Credits:

The Lily Pad: We are Story Tellers Co-ab

Pink Reptile Designs: Stunning Stitches Vol 2

Cluster Queen Creations: Give me Layers 61