I'm sitting here listening to Rob and Sammy making a right racket shouting at and waving pyjamas at each other and singing the Little Green Frog song. It's at this time of the evening when things get a little wild when everyone is home and chilling out after their various busy days.
I went to the hospital for a hearing appointment for our youngest Sammy he has Downs Syndrome and wears two hearing aids, the appointment today was a bit of a waste of time, they just asked how he was getting on with his aids and suggested I talk alot to him, I'm not sure what they think I do but the poor lad hardly gets any peace the ammount of stimulation he gets, what with reading books, signing DVD's, In the night garden and Mr Tumble and my constant babbling and singing, plus you then have to mulitiply that by 5 more when everyone else is home.
Lottie has just started singing in French and Millie wants to share her homework with everyone, how I'm supposed to have any sensible thoughts while all this is going on I don't know, but I suppose it is a start I think that next time I'll pick a more quite time.
A good thing that happened today is I made contact with another woman who homeschools and has a child with Downs, we spoke on the phone and I think we will have loads in common, it was really encouraging to talk with her as I think we are in a very small minority of christian homeschoolers with a DS child. Hopefully I will get to meet her soon if I can navigate the M3 to Woking. Navigation is not one of my strong points I don't seem to have be born with any sense of direction it's quite a worry for my lovely husband, who I think fears one of these days I'll be so lost I'll not ever find my way home. Maybe a sat nav would be a good investment.
I need to give Sammy a booby now and get him settled for the night so I'll finish here for now, hopefully I'll get the hang of this better in time and I will be able to express some of the blessed feelings I have when I think of these gorgeous people I have in my life. Until then Bye
About Me
- Cathie
- I'm married to Rob, we have 5 children, Tim 22 years, Lottie 16 years, Millie 11 years, Luke 7 years and Sammy 20 months. We are members of North Church Community Church and enjoy our church family. I have been involved in homeschooling since our daughter Lottie was school age although at the moment they have all gone to school when it all got a bit much juggling all the demands of Sammy. Sammy has Downs and was quite poorly in his first year having heart surgery at 14 weeks but he has more than made up for that he's a wonderful blessing and we feel very priviledged to have him in our family!
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