It is AUTISM awareness month....spending time with your other children who are not on the spectrum is very important. They need individual time apart from their sibling(s) to reaffirm their needs as well.

So in the spirit of letting Shayla's needs be met, she has taken off for a few days with Nanny & Pappa to go visit my sister & her family.  Shayla dearly loves being with her cousins & embracing the role of 'big sister/cousin' with each of them.  Time away from our chaos, gives her time to have some sort of normalcy which every body needs.

It is hard for any family with a child on the ASD to function 'normally'...what is normal for one family is so not normal for another family.  We rarely have a 'sit down' family meal...& that stinks...It is part of having a child on the ASD. 

It is a balancing act & while some days we lean to the left & some days we bare to the right but then other days we are just balanced...but we are a family & we just do the best we can do each & every day.

Shayla loves her brother despite his difficulties