Special Mom’s blog

Today afternoon, my son made a home run. Yes, without much prompting or people dragging him, my boy was able to run around a field. It took him less than a minute to accomplish that task. He hit the ball and made a quick walk around the bases.

He was also able to do the same thing in the second inning, but he needed a bit more prompting, and he was a bit slow. 

Me and my husband had so much conversation over how he accomplished this simple task. Yes, we were too happy he was able to do it, but we want him to repeat it, so the postmortem of the same was done in the field, in the car, and back home. I think we have a formula for the same. Oh, that was an achievement since we arrived at it quickly and without much argument. So for the next game, we will be implementing the same formula, and we hope my boy will be making easy home runs. 

In the evening, we went to the Indian store. We came home with a lot of snacks. My husband and I quickly started making decisions as to how the snacks needed to be stored. This helps our boy. Yes, snacks stored in a container last longer than ones kept in their original packaging. My boy has more control over those snacks that are visible. 

We decided not to go for our late-evening walk but to spend our time cleaning up our garden. We made our boy part of the whole process, and we saw to it that he understood the whole process and executed it properly. It involved filling up the watering can, carrying the potting soil, cleaning up old pots, and dumping the filled trash bags into containers. (He also needed to lose the same energy as he does on his walks.). 

The day was almost over when the lights went out and came back. Yes, there was a power cut for a second. My boy had almost settled down with a jigsaw puzzle on his iPad and me watching a murder mystery. My brain started making plans for what to do if the power goes out. It can cause my son to have an anxiety attack. But by the grace of God, the power came back so fast, and he has gone to bed now. 

Caregiving or caretaking does not involve just feeding and helping out with things. It involves so many other things. I just gave a few examples of the decisions we made today. It did not involve any stock market decisions or, in fact, life and death. But it involved peace for us, happiness, and a better quality of life for my boy. 

As I keep saying, our family is not alone in this battle or war. There are so many parents out there who keep making these decisions. Kudos to all of them.