Thursday, April 27, 2006
The best thing that ever happened
One of the best things that ever happened to me was that I couldn't get a job when I arrived back.
I had been supporting the family independently for 7 years.
The time off work I had had after having each child had gone from 6 weeks for Nathan, the eldest, down to 1 week for Sarah the baby.
I had missed all the baby things like them walking, talking etc.
I told my husband that he would have to get out there and find something.
Not leaving anything to chance, I found him a job working for an oil company.
He had never done manual labour before and quite frankly, I doubted his ability to stick with it.
But, fortunately, even though he whines about it daily, he has.
I got to be a stay at home mom.
It took a bit of retraining for the kids.
They got their meals at a scheduled time, their baths were scheduled.
Everything that I would normally have to do when I finished work, I was able to do during the day.
I scheduled a meeting with West River, the special ed people, and the school.
I told them what I wanted and to my surprise, I got it.
The kids were moved out of their closet.
An expert on Autism was to be brought in to consult and help them plan.
And they hired a teacher from Montana who had been in Special Ed for 20 years and had lots of experience with children with Autism.
I had been supporting the family independently for 7 years.
The time off work I had had after having each child had gone from 6 weeks for Nathan, the eldest, down to 1 week for Sarah the baby.
I had missed all the baby things like them walking, talking etc.
I told my husband that he would have to get out there and find something.
Not leaving anything to chance, I found him a job working for an oil company.
He had never done manual labour before and quite frankly, I doubted his ability to stick with it.
But, fortunately, even though he whines about it daily, he has.
I got to be a stay at home mom.
It took a bit of retraining for the kids.
They got their meals at a scheduled time, their baths were scheduled.
Everything that I would normally have to do when I finished work, I was able to do during the day.
I scheduled a meeting with West River, the special ed people, and the school.
I told them what I wanted and to my surprise, I got it.
The kids were moved out of their closet.
An expert on Autism was to be brought in to consult and help them plan.
And they hired a teacher from Montana who had been in Special Ed for 20 years and had lots of experience with children with Autism.
# posted by donna mason @ 5:19 AM 
