2009 Catch Up.....

Well lets go back to the holidays, over all Chris had a great holiday he is so much happier at the special needs unit at Otumoetai College and I give the staff and the unit 10/10. It is a fantastic place and for Chris it is ideal. We used emergency Respite a couple of times that was all over the holidays. Huge thanks to Youth Horizons trust for giving us this respite. There was one sad moment in the holidays one of his classmates in the unit passed away Boxing morning, he was in Auckland so never got to the funeral but we did visit the grave on his return and the school had a memorial for her last week was beautiful RIP Queree xx

He spends some time in the unit and some time in the mainstream with a teacher aid, he does English, Maths, Cooking yes cooking and Tech in the mainstream. He has made some friends which is fantastic, he is happy and looks forward to school every day, in fact he can't wait for the taxi to come and pick him up.

At the moment things are going just brilliant and I really could not ask for more.

Don't get me wrong things are still far from normal in this house - but then what is normal, have no idea anymore lol..... We have even decreased Chris's anti psychotic meds again now he is settled. Youth Horizons also have a program where they come inside the house and work along side us as a family and work on behaviour stuff and also his OCD stuff which is the killer. I met Jan last Thursday and she is meeting the kids next week and we will begin, I am excited about that especially if we can work through some of the OCD stuff......

Right now for Chris I think life is pretty good, and I hope so much that this year will be the year he stays at school full time, wow how exciting is that. The High and Complex Needs application is once again going ahead..... I am not even going to start on that how frustrating that is.....

Anyway back soon with an another update.....