This Autism Life and Siblings

I’m back!
   Over a year hiatus, lots of ups and downs.  Lots of good moments and lots of difficult moments.  Lots of emotions.  And all tied up with the worst experience of my life just one year ago; losing my mom unexpectedly.  Her passing has put a hole in my heart and soul that I didn’t even know was possible.  It’s been raw and it’s been easier many days to just tuck those really sad and empty feelings way deep down and try to forget about them.  This blog is about real experiences.  My emotions and life with special needs.  It’s still hard.  Not a day goes by without my thoughts and memories of my mom.  But I’m trying to get back to this.
The blog, my flow of thoughts of what our special needs autism life is like.  The real everyday.  Not just good moments, but the really bad moments too.  Our one hundred percent truthful unfiltered moments.  And more importantly our new journey into medicinal cannabis and how much it has changed this autism life.  How much  it has helped our son.  So many incredible firsts.  So much, oh so much less aggressive behaviors, physical aggression, throwing and destructive behaviors, self harming and eloping behaviors.  So many things that defined our everyday existence with our son. And so this first post in over a year is focusing on another new first!!  Not just for our son, but his sibling, little sis.  Because life with Autism effects the entire family.  It effects each member in different ways but the real reality can be heart breaking most of the time when you see no matter what we do,  the siblings, our other amazing kids are effected.  How can they not be.  So here is a good post, focusing on a happy day for a sibling.  A happy day for our boy.  And a happy day for me to see and to realize we are moving to new experiences and new first moments that I didn’t think possible just a few years ago.
.....................I know for most this is just an ordinary experience.
For Sarah she had a friend from school over for the very FIRST time....It is always too difficult for Ty (and therefore us).  But today, he did great (ignored them😅) and Sarah had so much fun.  They baked triple chocolate muffins by themselves 💜😊. And yes this is all because of medical cannabis!

Stay tuned for more on how medical cannabis has changed our families Autism life forever.  How medical cannabis has improved our sons quality of life in so many ways.