School it is. I didn’t tell Owen anything about the 50/50 chance that school might be cancelled because of the snow. I woke up early and kept waiting for the 5:00 am message saying they wouldn’t be going but thankfully his Friday stayed intact and he got to go to school. The snow had come but where we lived it wasn’t sticking on the roads at all.
He woke a little after five. It took him a few minutes to get going. All smiles after that but I could tell he was processing everything and asking about all his people. He told me how he got upset yesterday. I told him that I knew it was hard but everything was fine now. I reminded him that he is amazing and that we could talk about anything anytime he needed to. It is so hard when he has so much going on and he can’t make it all make sense.
While he was in his bath I started clapping on my belly to the tune of Jingle Bells but not singing it. He said, “Mommy sing” and I said what is the song not truly knowing how to even explain what I was doing. He said, “Jingle Bells mommy sing it.” He got very excited. I told him to sing it with me. I then tried Old MacDonald Had A Farm and he knew what the tune was as well. I thought it was cool that not only could I at least make it sound like songs but that he could tell.
He was off to school. I was watching the bus on the app and it looked like it stopped I guess to wait since they were very early at that point but I thought maybe the app stopped working so I got us ready to go outside and then I saw the bus move. He was anxious to get out there and nothing I was doing was working to distract him so we went outside. I didn’t want him to have a meltdown right before he left. It was cold but not bitter. He was loving being outside though so he could watch all the happenings around him. When the bus turned the corner it was pure joy for him.
His teacher let me know he was very anxious today. He has been questioning everything and the last few weeks he has had a lot to process. The wrong way down the right road is not the way to end his Friday. He was not happy that the bus dropped him off in what he considered the wrong direction but he worked through it. It was a different driver so he didn’t know that the other driver generally came from the other direction.
They can’t even imagine how this affects him but Owen has to also understand that we can’t always go the same way. Between traffic, road closures, and anything else that life throws at us it completely changes everything about our day so learning to accept and expect changes is something I try to work with him every day on. It is helpful and exhausting all at the same time.
I think he went through every Christmas special he has ever watched and not watched with his grandma. He also went through the commercials associated with certain ones. The knowledge he stores in his brain is amazing. He then told me that his grandma would be very disappointed if she didn’t get to watch the right Christmas show tomorrow on her new TV. I told him I didn’t know that she was getting a new TV to watch Christmas movies on and he said, “She will be getting a new one.” Then he said tell her that he doesn’t know which show will be on and then went through all the movies again.
I could tell he was considering every single detail all night long. It was a processing kind of day. He can’t wait until tomorrow so he can go see his grandma. He kept asking if our relatives would be back and I kept reminding him not until the summer. Bedtime was quick and I knew that I would be asleep fast too. I pray we both sleep all night. His smile is my heart. Through the rain we see the flowers grow. Remember you are still growing through the storms. Smiles to all and donut daze!
He woke a little after five. It took him a few minutes to get going. All smiles after that but I could tell he was processing everything and asking about all his people. He told me how he got upset yesterday. I told him that I knew it was hard but everything was fine now. I reminded him that he is amazing and that we could talk about anything anytime he needed to. It is so hard when he has so much going on and he can’t make it all make sense.
While he was in his bath I started clapping on my belly to the tune of Jingle Bells but not singing it. He said, “Mommy sing” and I said what is the song not truly knowing how to even explain what I was doing. He said, “Jingle Bells mommy sing it.” He got very excited. I told him to sing it with me. I then tried Old MacDonald Had A Farm and he knew what the tune was as well. I thought it was cool that not only could I at least make it sound like songs but that he could tell.
He was off to school. I was watching the bus on the app and it looked like it stopped I guess to wait since they were very early at that point but I thought maybe the app stopped working so I got us ready to go outside and then I saw the bus move. He was anxious to get out there and nothing I was doing was working to distract him so we went outside. I didn’t want him to have a meltdown right before he left. It was cold but not bitter. He was loving being outside though so he could watch all the happenings around him. When the bus turned the corner it was pure joy for him.
His teacher let me know he was very anxious today. He has been questioning everything and the last few weeks he has had a lot to process. The wrong way down the right road is not the way to end his Friday. He was not happy that the bus dropped him off in what he considered the wrong direction but he worked through it. It was a different driver so he didn’t know that the other driver generally came from the other direction.
They can’t even imagine how this affects him but Owen has to also understand that we can’t always go the same way. Between traffic, road closures, and anything else that life throws at us it completely changes everything about our day so learning to accept and expect changes is something I try to work with him every day on. It is helpful and exhausting all at the same time.
I think he went through every Christmas special he has ever watched and not watched with his grandma. He also went through the commercials associated with certain ones. The knowledge he stores in his brain is amazing. He then told me that his grandma would be very disappointed if she didn’t get to watch the right Christmas show tomorrow on her new TV. I told him I didn’t know that she was getting a new TV to watch Christmas movies on and he said, “She will be getting a new one.” Then he said tell her that he doesn’t know which show will be on and then went through all the movies again.
I could tell he was considering every single detail all night long. It was a processing kind of day. He can’t wait until tomorrow so he can go see his grandma. He kept asking if our relatives would be back and I kept reminding him not until the summer. Bedtime was quick and I knew that I would be asleep fast too. I pray we both sleep all night. His smile is my heart. Through the rain we see the flowers grow. Remember you are still growing through the storms. Smiles to all and donut daze!
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