Today I had to go to Reilly’s school for a catch up with his teacher and other parents of children new to Benton Dene School. I wasn’t sure I could actually keep my eyes open to get there after he was awake between 1am – 6.30am Monday night followed by an up at 4am last night. I look like a dementor.
Aim of this afternoon was to drink tea and talk to other parents. One thing for sure when you put a room full of parents of autistic children together theres not going to be any awkward silences that’s for sure. Looking around the room it was a sea of nodding in agreement as we shared similar stories of meltdowns, no sleep and the rest of the issues that keep us on our toes.
Reilly as I expected is doing extremely well. He is communicating brilliantly with his pecs boards and super comfortable in his new surroundings. His transition from Beacon Hill to Benton Dene has been nowhere near as traumatic as I anticipated. Luckily (I’ve had no replies to any of my issues) for North Tyneside Council he also loves his new transport and waits for the mini bus at the window every morning.
Obviously when it came to my time to speak I hardly came up for air, Alphabetically Autistic, The Life of Reilly blog & play, Really Reilly, grandparents sessions (lots of extremely good feedback re this) and the likes.
Just hammered home the fact that what we are doing is necessary and needed and made me proud to know I had a part in it. I opted not to bring Reilly home with me and to leave him to come home on the school transport. 30 minutes to myself, alone you say, I’ll take that.
We have been to collect our registration certificate for Alphabetically Autistic today too so all round a productive and satisfying day. Praying for sleep x
The Life of Reilly 