Category: June
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S’mores
Day 30! Final day of my challenge. It was a sweet afternoon that my special one enjoyed so much. An activity he volunteered 💯 percent 😀! We made s’mores. Of course he loved it since it is just all sugar and chocolate. Few years back during a fall festival I tasted my first smore given…
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Fly a Kite 🪁
Day 29! As I finished the activity for today, my Dad called me a ring master😂! Yes everyone participated in the activity today. I grew up in a very conservative household and one activity a girl was not allowed to do was fly a kite! Ha Ha, even if they had got me one I…
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Make a bird feeder!
Day 28 Challenge! When I started this challenge I told my Mom everyone needs to participate. My Mom said good luck with your Dad! You cannot make him do anything. Yes approaching 80 one definitely looses interest in things but I was sure as things progressed I will catch his attention. I did when my…
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Home away from Home
Day 27! Today my special one attended a party with DJ and music, arts and crafts, game and of course food. It was definitely fun. We made a red white and blue craft work and he was so concentrated that he was the only one who could thread his beads to the twine kept there…
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Sri Venkateshwara Temple, Pittsburgh
Day 26 Today was my husband’s birthday! Happy Birthday to a very special Dad. He didn’t want to mention that, so I have to do it! There was no special activity planned for today since we wanted to go to the temple. I have written an exclusive blog as to how we trained our son…
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Heinz History Center
Day 25 of my challenge. We had a long evening yesterday and our activity was really tiring so when I suggested that we have to go to a museum today my younger one’s reply was I have been there many times during my elementary school days and that he was not interested😀. My husband had…
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Fitness Trail.
Day 24! Parks are great place to walk and if you have good trails it is a wonderful experience. South Park near our house has an amazing trail path around a pond , so our activity today was at the park. We did have a picnic with our friends two weeks back but we were…
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Day 23, Dollar store trip!
I decided my next activity should be cheap. After browsing through my bucket list I headed of to the dollar store. It is not a dollar anymore. Everything is one dollar and twenty five cents now. I was lucky I found what I wanted from my bucket list. We got a suncatcher. As I walked…
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Bowling
Day 22 of my challenge! I ran out of ideas today since it was a hot morning with thunderstorms in the afternoon. But my younger one said, let’s do bowling . So that is what we did today. We never did bowling until my son started his adult day program. Special needs community has lot…
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A South Indian snack.
Day 21 of my challenge and it is summer solstice, the longest day of the year for us. A snack staple in every household while I was growing up. A snack made by the ladies of the household in the month of February in India when the sun was perfect and the weather was comfortable…
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Pool Games!
Day 20! After involving my whole family yesterday today was me alone with my boy at the pool. We did indoor pool already so we decided to go outdoors and I had some pool toys with me. More than ten years ago while I was talking to another Mom, she told me how her therapist…
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Father’s Day!
Day 19! Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful Fathers out there. The silent heroes. Today I decided my family to run the show. In the morning I got a new basketball, baseball set (since my son started liking and playing) and some table tennis balls. Remember those T shirts we tie dyed, that was…
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The Monongahela incline.
Day 18 of my challenge! If you are joining me today, during the month of June I am doing different activities with my special boy and my family and making journal entries of the same. We live in a city of tunnels and bridges. What is the best way to have the view of this…
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Paint in the park?
Today we drove to a lake and spent the afternoon/ evening there. It was just supposed to be a paint in the park day but we ended up doing a lot of stuff. It was a nice warm day and we decided to make some cold cucumber sandwiches with mint chutney in the park. My…
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Day 16! Where did we go?
I have a bucket list of activities and my white board at home has a list handwritten by me that I use as a guide. Our daily activity list is not written in stone so we started to one place but ended up in a farmers’ market today. We were supposed to have severe thunderstorms…
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Harry Potter
Entering 3rd week of my challenge and half the month is done. Thank you all for following me liking me and encouraging me. During pandemic my son’s program had a number of virtual classes and one of the classes we logged in was Harry Potter story time. My son surprised us by staying in class…
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Sidewalk chalk!
Using a sidewalk chalk may look silly or easy but this is one activity my special one hasn’t done at all. Scribbling on the wall is a much easier option than scribbling on a concrete floor. Today morning a facilitator posted a nature walk task on their program fb page. The task being to collect…
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Tie dying
It is day 13 of my challenge. Today my son was antsy in his program (more than antsy) and wanted to leave and go to the mall. Of course I took him shopping but not to the mall but to Michaels, a craft store. With summer I could see a lot of activities on sale.…
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Mr. Roger’s Statue
Day 12 of my Challenge My bucket list showed, visit a National Monument. So when I searched, I found we had Mr. Roger’s statue right here in Pittsburgh. It may not be a National Monument but it is for someone respected by all. Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003), also known as Mister…
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Day 11 🤩 Fun
We do miracle league baseball twice a year, 6 weeks in fall and ssix weeks in spring. So it was baseball game today. The atmosphere is so much fun and enouraging. Check out the second inning home run when the entire crowd chanted my son’s name. Baseball and cricket are like brothers and genetically every…
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