Friday, May 05, 2006
As if that wasn't enough
My life is fairly full.
Even without having the 3 Autistic children, having 5 children age 6 and under would be enough to make you want to pull your hair out somedays.
In a couple of weeks I go to the Option Institute in Massachusetts and I am looking forward to it.
I hate flying though!
Getting close to the end of the school year, it has been a time of getting things organised for summer school.
That is going to be an interesting adjustment.
A week here a week there.
The kids are not going to know where they are meant to be.
Well, if that wasn't enough, yesterday, my older dog who occasionally gets nose bleeds for no particular reason decides to sneeze up one heck of a clot.
I picked it up and cleaned up after him then went into the bathroom and threw up.
That sent warning bells screaming through my head!
So, when I had a spare moment I went up to the store for an EPT.
You guessed it!
I am pregnant.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry so I did a little of both.
Here I am with 5 children already, a marriage that is shaky at best and probably wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the children, and having the constant fear that as Autism is more likely to continue in the same family my new baby may be Autistic.
My husband and I rarely have sex what with the children, the exhaustion and our fighting. So I am thinking that I am probably about 3 months along already.
I can't tell my family. They are going to have a coronary.
Life can't get much better than this.
I am going to keep the child. And I will love it no matter how things turn out.
But the timing could have been better.
And I will get the child screened on a monthly basis after it turns one for Autism so I can start an early intervention program.
Even without having the 3 Autistic children, having 5 children age 6 and under would be enough to make you want to pull your hair out somedays.
In a couple of weeks I go to the Option Institute in Massachusetts and I am looking forward to it.
I hate flying though!
Getting close to the end of the school year, it has been a time of getting things organised for summer school.
That is going to be an interesting adjustment.
A week here a week there.
The kids are not going to know where they are meant to be.
Well, if that wasn't enough, yesterday, my older dog who occasionally gets nose bleeds for no particular reason decides to sneeze up one heck of a clot.
I picked it up and cleaned up after him then went into the bathroom and threw up.
That sent warning bells screaming through my head!
So, when I had a spare moment I went up to the store for an EPT.
You guessed it!
I am pregnant.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry so I did a little of both.
Here I am with 5 children already, a marriage that is shaky at best and probably wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for the children, and having the constant fear that as Autism is more likely to continue in the same family my new baby may be Autistic.
My husband and I rarely have sex what with the children, the exhaustion and our fighting. So I am thinking that I am probably about 3 months along already.
I can't tell my family. They are going to have a coronary.
Life can't get much better than this.
I am going to keep the child. And I will love it no matter how things turn out.
But the timing could have been better.
And I will get the child screened on a monthly basis after it turns one for Autism so I can start an early intervention program.
# posted by donna mason @ 5:36 AM 
