Charley is out of school for summer break and I am quickly realizing there will be very little time for me to blog. So here I am sitting at the car wash, while Charley is at home with our respite provider, blogging. Charley's last day of school was the 12th of June and I am exhausted. We hosted a last day of school party with our amazing friends to try and kick off the summer right. The next morning I made Charley's breakfast, got her Meds together, woke her up, changed her diaper and fed her. After breakfast we did art projects for Father's day, had a snack, squished some play dough, listened to music, and read 3 books. Then we played "basket" a.k.a. throw all the balls out of a basket and then put them back in. Afterwards we had a popcorn party. I felt like such a fun great Mom until I looked at the clock. It was only 10 am. What am I suppose to do for the next 8 hours? Charley doesn't watch tv or play by herself and she really can't be left alone. I have a 9 year old who doesn't attend to anything for longer than 5 minutes and summer school doesn't start until the end of July. I'm open to any ideas/suggestions. I really want to make summer fun for her like it was for me when I was a kid. She is so precious to me and I want to know that she is enjoying this life she was given.
I was directed to your blog by Shane and want to tell you what a great job you are doing for your beautiful girl! The reason I wanted to post a comment was to turn you on to a blog I absolutely Love to follow. Pudge and Biggs are two of the cutest and ornery kids and their Moms blog will make you laugh out loud most of the time. But the real reason for sharing this with you is their Mom, Courtney was an elementary teacher before adopting these two bundles of joy and she has really cool ideas and tools she uses with them and it might give you some ideas of things to do with Charley that are not only fun but help with sensory and other skills. The blog site is... http://pudgeandzippy.blogspot.com/?m=1 if you can find time, go all the way back to the beginning of her blog and read. Her two little ones are younger than Charley but some stuff may work for you guys also and while her two have different "needs" it may be nice to read another mothers day to day struggles! Courtney is the sister-in-law of a close friend of mine and I know she would be more than happy to hear from you!! I hope you have a great summer and it goes well!
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Alicia Linder
6/26/2012 09:28:58 am
Thank you so much Stephanie I'm excited to follow this blog you have recommended.