Life is Hard; Seek Joy Where You Can

This past year, I've joined some facebook groups for parents, usually specifically moms, of special needs kids. I did this because, as much as I love talking to my family and friends who don't have special needs kids, sometimes, your lives are exhaustively amazing, and just conversations about your mornings make me jealous. Sometimes, I need to know that others out there struggle just to keep my shit together. For long-time followers, you already know that these two rad kids, my 2 middles, are autistic. The greatest impact in my life is that I am forced to communicate better. There are many other ways I've been impacted, but that's the biggest. I'm not going to lie and think that it hasn't impacted other parts of my life. I'm sure there are friends that normally would have been regular visitors that have no idea how to handle just hanging out in a house with neurodivergent kids. It's ok. I'm still getting the hang of it, and they came from me. ...