Choose your battles.

Good morning, my beautiful people! I hope you all are doing well. I’m currently back home. Was supposed to get E to school, but he had tantrums outside, so he woke the neighbors, so they were looking through their blinds.

I finally managed to get us back home (tantrum for 40 minutes outside with no luck), so today he will be home from school. With lack of sleep and this morning, I can honestly say, I am tired.

Yes, I am keeping my life in the blog raw and authentic. I’m not going to sugarcoat the reality. I’m sharing my life because I know I have other autistic families who read the blog, and we know the struggles sometimes. Some days are good, and some days are a bit of a struggle. It’s the reality of a family with a person who has special needs.

So today will be a day to stay home. This has started to happen daily now, so I have notified the school what’s going on and that we will be at school when the situation is calm and better. They are ok with that. Sadly, today will be a stay-at-home day.

So this was my morning. How is your morning?

Choose your battles.

~ Unknown

No, I do not have pictures of the situation and what happened. My focus is to calm the situation, and taking photos/videos during a breakdown is nothing I do.

Reason for this morning’s meltdown: bus.My son loves busses and these mornings for the past few days has been very difficult.  He wants to go for a ride in the buses, but we don’t need to take the bus to the school. The situation escalates every time, but what can I do? All I can do is handle the situations by remaining calm, try to calm down the situations, and keep my son safe.

“Autism doesn’t come with an instruction guide. It comes with a family who will never give up.”

~ Kerry Magro

Murano & Burano, the boat trip

on the day before my very last day, me and a guy from Australia (who I met at the hotel) who also is a photographer but only knew how to take portrait pictures so I taught him how to take details, macro and landscape photos.

My goal on this whole Italy trip was to go to Burano and together we decided to go there (with other people ofcourse)

Here are some photos from the trip to the islands Murano and Burano.

as you might have noticed by now, I have a thing for decorations and windows. I was insane on taking pictures of people’s windows and how they had decorated them. Trust me, more will come.