Tag: specialneeds
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Take me out to the ball ⚾️ game😃
It was free ice-cream , then free donuts and now day 5 of my blogging journaling it is two free baseball tickets. We have never been to a ball game and so when I saw an email from Miracle League offering two free tickets to today’s game without much thought we booked them! Miracle League…
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Nursery
Today was getting our hands dirty. My critters and the birds around the garden love my plants. It has been a struggle to grow plants from seeds, especially sunflowers and beans. To help the plants survive from birds and critters we found out nurseries helped. Once the plants develop a few leaves in our sun…
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Check me out!
It is with great zest that I have started blogging every evening in June, logging in a different fun activity I do with my boys locally without hitting the traffic, and not spending a ton of money , so check it out! RDP Prompt: Traffic Sammi’s weekend prompt: zest in 41 words.
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National Donut 🍩 Day and a story stroll 🚶♀️
Today was so much fun. I had decided to go to Dunkin Donuts for free donuts (being National Donut Day) and a trail walk nearby but ended up at Duck Donuts for free cinnamon donuts and Story Stroll at a completely different trail. Some pictures were taken by my kids, so I thought I would…
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To the Pool
Today we were supposed to go for movies, but my son’s sleep was disturbed last night and I was a bit of a zombie today morning, so we decided to go to the pool. So day two itself I was thrown a curve ball. If my son threw the curve ball, I did throw him…
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Miniature Golf
So, I saw the above on my son’s program’s face book page. My special one is now an young adult and my typical kid is going to be a senior coming this fall and it looked as if it didn’t matter much for me. But as the day went on and as we prepared to…
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Back to the movie theater!
After two years, I went to the movie theater. Theaters opened a long time back, but I lost touch during pandemic. It was easy to binge watch on Netflix or amazon and not drive to the theater at a particular time. One of the show I did binge watch during the peak of pandemic was…
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Amur Honeysuckle
The flowers are tiny but they smell so good. My plant finder says it is an invasive one, and yes they are from my experience too. They grow really big and there is no maintenance. The early morning breeze spreads it sweet smell around. For Cee’s Flower of the Day!
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Chandi Homam
I write this blog as we drive back from Stroudsburg. A trip specifically taken for me. When I was in 11th Grade my grandfather asked me to make a cheat sheet during Navarathri. I was supposed to type down the shlokas from Devi MAhatmyam. That was my first exposure to this great scripture of Mother…
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Frowzy
We have done a lot of 5km walks. We may look frowzy by the finish line but it is all worth it. This particular 5 km was around Kennywood Park and we got a discounted entrance during Christmas time. Even after a 5k walk we had all the energy to go around the park and…
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Therapies
Along with behaviors we still deal with sensory issues with my special needs boy. As he grew old and while planning his transition I had made that to be one of my major concern in all his transition forms. When we started preschool our issues were hyperactivity. A swing in his preschool class room calmed…
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Wedding
Weddings nowadays are extravagant! Ours was simple compared to how things are happening now😀. My husband keeps saying we should renew our vows like how Raymond did it on “Everybody Loves Raymond” ! My son loves music so we may have sangeet and of course I love mehandi , so maybe that one! These two…
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Luminous
The luminous light from my Himalayan Rock Salt Lamp provides a meditating atmosphere in my prayer room thereby being therapeutic for my brain. No scientific backing , just my personal experience.
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Picnics
Monday was a hot day for us. I heard on news that it is good to be out in the sun since it helps to improve our serotonin level. If that were the case that no one should be depressed in the tropics. I deal with my son’s anxiety and I have learnt about dopamine…
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Jasmine
Excited to share my jasmine buds today morning. With all the hot weather I thought it would have bloomed, but not yet. I have to be patient. This is a tropical plant and had to be brought in for winter. This one survived this winter. For Cee’s FOTD
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Understanding and interacting!
I have had people ask me how to interact with my son. I have been asked how much he understands. The answer is simple . Please be with him and you will learn on your own. My younger one is eight years younger to my special boy. He started understanding his brother by the time…
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Zoomorphic
Zoomorphic means to have the form of an animal. It is official, we have been to 30 states in this country. Last weekend to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina sealed this number. Thanks to my husband who found job in different parts of this country and my son’s treatment option in various parts made me achieve…
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Shubhakrita New Year
Happy New Year or Shubhakrita Puthandu Nal Vazhthukal for all my friends who are celebrating New Year tomorrow. Tamil people follow Lunar calendar and our New Year always falls on April 14th and very rarely on the 15th. I grew up in a household that mixed up tradition from two states so when I got…
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Autism Awareness Day
April 2nd is Autism Awareness Day and April is Autism Awareness Month. Over the years there has been a lot of awareness about autism but I just want to point out certain things. No two autistic people are the same. If you have seen one autistic person, you have seen one person. The behaviors, the…
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Chocolate Factory!
My phone reminded me what we did last year this time. This week last year my son got his first COVID-19 vaccine. We stood in line and waited for an hour before he got his vaccine. Things have changed in a year now right? The psychological impact caused by the pandemic may not be known…
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