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general stuff

feeling festive

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)27 Comments

Thanks so much for the good wishes, Amy’s school play was wonderful and I did cry buckets!

We’re now in the last week before the schools break up and so it’s really the last chance to get all the Christmas shopping and preparation done before my little lovelies suck up all my free time! The trouble is I can’t seem to motivate myself to go and join the fray. I’m happy here in a peaceful house with my quiet knitting. I do feel very festive though despite the lack of decorations – it’s our Christmas tradition to put up the tree and decorate the house on the day after the schools break up. I’m even seeing things in my coffee – kind of looks like a snowman or an angel or have I already succumbed to Christmas madness?!

What’s your run up to Christmas been like so far, calm or crazed?

general stuff · winter

the christmas play

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)32 Comments

At around 2.30pm today I shall be weeping and sniffling into a large bunch of tissues (in a highly sentimental and very proud way) as I watch Amy perform in her school play. She’s pleased as punch to have been given the part of Mary in a play called the Christmas Jazz and sings a very beautiful solo song towards the end. I think part of me will be weeping at it being her last school play of junior school. Next year secondary school will engulf her and I’m sure the changes it will bring to her, although a necessary part of growing up, will cause me to weep many more times!

I know I’ll not be alone in needing tissues today so I’ll wish all you parents watching your children in their school plays over the next 2 weeks a very happy weep and don’t forget to charge up your camera batteries!

PS: frosty berries have nothing whatsoever to do with all this – we’ve had very frosty mornings here this week and I just thought they looked pretty.

autism · autumn · countryside · general stuff · in the woods

Wood walks

Julie (little Cotton Rabbits)21 Comments

Going out to the woods has become a definite highlight in Toby’s weekend. A few months ago he would cling on to me when we were out but now he’s more confident and likes to skip off and explore a little. It’s lovely to see him enjoying the different textures of the path under his boots as it travels through crunchy leaves, squelchy puddles and over echoy wooden walkways. It’s a special and gentle time together.

In keeping with our drive to build on his communication I’m going to be using these walks to add to his vocabulary by using a comment board. I’ll be trying to teach him to name what he notices so that when he comes home for instance he can tell Amy and Daddy that we saw a dog in the woods.

Hopefully we can add to this and in time help build him a functional language.

Thanks so much for all of the kind comments on the last post. It’s always really helpful to hear from anyone else with experience and great to read some different ideas that we may be able to adapt for Toby, it’s also a very nice feeling to know that there are people out there just wishing us well – many thanks x