Jan 01 2009
Thursday Thankfulness: Brand New Day
Or a brand new year as it were! Happy New Year, readers! Today I am thankful for:
- Getting home safely from our brief New Year’s Eve celebration at my cousin’s. We got hit with a snowstorm yesterday morning, and decided to go out anyway as soon as the snow stopped. The roads were kind of bad, but the kids were so excited about seeing her kids that we chanced it. Her son is a few weeks younger than Gus and has a similar diagnosis. They usually only interact in passing, but yet always seem excited to see each other. They did play together yesterday, so it seems that they may progress toward being friends one of these days.
- I am thankful for a very patient and kind waitress this morning when we took the troops out for breakfast this morning. In my infinite wisdom this morning, it didn’t occur to me that we had waited too late to get moving. Gus has a much harder time with his coping skills when he’s tired or hungry. So he got upset that we had to go to our table before he was ready, and he was quite rude to the waitress. I wouldn’t say he had a full blown meltdown, but he was pretty loud and clearly distressed. The waitress never even flinched or frowned, just went on as if he were being the most docile child on the planet. Had I been less agitated myself, I would have thanked her especially. The world needs more people like her.
- I am always thankful for the chance to start fresh and to try new things. We got some good news yesterday which was a good omen for things to come.
What are you thankful for at the start of this new year?
Happy new year!!!
I’m one of your entrecarddroppers and I’m sending you my best wishes.
May many dreams come true.
I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
Sarah
http://www.thetreadmillguide.com
Hi Andrea,
A Very Happy and Prosperous New Year to you and yours!
Wishing you a happy, healthy, prosperous, and amazing 2009!
peace,
mike
livelife365
Happy New Year!
Thanks and welcome, Sarah!!
I am thankful for finding wonderfully inspiring and supportive people like you online to help us all through our journeys. I am thankful for my family.
I wish you a happiest 2009 and a prosperous one.
You write about Gus is such a straight-forward way. Thank you for posting. I’ve been at that restaurant with Jilly and we’ve had the meltdowns. . . thank heaven for patient waitresses. . . most of them are goddesses.
We are so thankful that Jilly is verbal and that she has such great teachers. We’ll continue to focus on her social skills and math and intuitive knowledge. And we’ll continue to try to build on her strengths. . . she is sweet and eager to please and she has an amazing memory. Much of what I write about with Jilly shows how she has to take the loooonnng way to sharing what she’s thinking.
And we are still, always, going to try to keep it simple - the same routines, day in and day out.
I wish you all the best for 2009. I thank you for your comments on The Half-Life of Linoleum.
Happy New Year, Andrea! Always enjoy your blog and learn
so much from it. I wish you all a terrific year.
Warmly, Diana and Family