Tag Archives: Christmas

Autism and Christmas

The Christmas period is my favorite time of year. I love the music, the lights, and the possibility of snow. I love all the time you get to spend with family and friends. I love the food and drinks. I also love the scents (the White Company winter candle is my favorite). My older sonContinue reading “Autism and Christmas”

Christmas 2021

Two years ago, it took my son three days to open his Christmas presents. Since then we have been extra mindful of how many presents we have brought for him, so as to not overwhelm him. This year he did a great job of opening presents and not just his own! He found one ofContinue reading “Christmas 2021”

Our Puppy’s Christmas

While we are all on holiday visiting family our puppy is having Christmas with all her friends. I’m grateful to have pictures of her day to show our sons when they ask about her at night (I like to believe they are asking out of love, but it could be another tactic to delay goingContinue reading “Our Puppy’s Christmas”

Autism and Flying During COVID

We flew on December 17th 2021, 3 weeks after the Omicron variant had started to spread. It had been two and a half years since my autistic son had been on an airplane and he was VERY excited- and we were very nervous! Things we did to help our travels: We told him ahead ofContinue reading “Autism and Flying During COVID”

It has been a long week…

It has been a long week for everyone in our house. Both my sons are super-excited about Christmas, but my autistic son is also struggling a little bit with the changes this holiday season brings. On top of that, we are heading abroad to see family for the holiday (we have not seen most ofContinue reading “It has been a long week…”

Our Christmas tree is up

So the tree is up. Both my sons requested that the tree went up today. So my husband set the tree up this morning (we have a pre-light fake tree as I don’t need anything else to clean up in my house) and we started decorating it this afternoon. My autistic son helped. He foundContinue reading “Our Christmas tree is up”

Is someone trying to tell me it’s time for Christmas???

So, I came down stairs to this scene the other night… My son told me these are Christmas stockings for Santa (they kind of looked like dirty socks from the washing basket to me)! So I could have either fought him over the display of ‘stockings’ for the next couple of weeks or do this…Continue reading “Is someone trying to tell me it’s time for Christmas???”