it starts with the small things

As a parent of a child with autism, you learn to savor every small accomplishment your kid does. I found this article earlier this afternoon before picking Ryan up from school. At the time I read it I was feeling a little down and a little frustrated with this thing we know called - autism. The article helped pick me up a little and look back on the recent "WOW" moments I have had with Ryan. Those moments, the "I can't believe he just did that" moments, need to be the ones that stand out the most. Not the behavioral issues that scream at you with frustration, or all of the ways in which our kids are different, from typical kids, so to make you feel more hopeless. No, our minds and hearts need to be filled with just how much our kids are doing so we can, everyday, have a new block to add to ours, and their, Hope Mountain.

Celebrate the small things and never take them for granted....they build even greater things. So start building and watch both yours and their motivation grow! That motivation has the ability to trample over stereotypes and burst open the doors of potential.