Welcome 2009!

And a Happy New Year to you all!

Wishing health, happiness, wealth and gee - let's go all out and wish for world peace while we're at it too :-)

As I went to bed on New Year's Eve I pondered what the new year will bring us.

As I said to P - we know some of the challenges ahead - and we know some of the joys too - one of my sisters is getting married this year and the way it's worked out only I will be going as it's in England but it'll be only my 3rd break on my own since having W. The first was accompanying my mother for moral support while my father had surgery, the second was a Parent to Parent break weekend which was unfortunately the day after I dislocated my shoulder so I didn't really appreciate it as much as I could have done!

T's surgery and learning to eat are a big challenge, like many these days we're facing some big financial challenges.

P's still having random rashes, foot pains etc after the nail incident last year - and we really need to get to the bottom of that one too.

We are working on behaviour modification for N, and scarily I'm going to have to start reading up on Asperger's teens as W is clearly heading that way and already struggling a bit.
Hopefully Tau Toko (an organisation which helped us so very much when the AS was first diagnosed) will be able to help us out soon again - been on that waiting list for nearly a year now.

Anyway, since we have officially ended the holiday period - or what I called the "No number days" when I was little, I want to wish people a good new year with as few big surprises as possible!

Explaination - No number days were the days between Christmas Day (which everyone knows is the 25th!) and my birthday on the 4th of Jan. Those days were always so laid back and relaxed and no one ever seemed to look at the calender that for a while I actually thought those days didn't have dates to them, we just floated seamlessly along in summer relaxation.
Of course it all ended on the 4th because we can't lose track of a birthday now can we??!! :-)