What a busy 6 odd months we have had.....

First of sorry for the delay in blogging but when you read what we have been up to you hopefully will let me off.....

I met this man last year and over the Christmas holidays, I moved to Rotorua to be with him , yes we sold the house and made the big move. The kids are doing well considering, they are about to start a new school again next week. Chris had a pretty good first 6 months last year but the last 6 months in school went a bit ummmmm lets just say not so good. But he has a new beginning this year so cross fingers please :-).

High and Complex Needs well lest just say some of it is awesome, other parts of it not so sure, at the moment we are in the process of transferring it all over to the Rotorua team.

Chris had a mentor from Healthcare NZ last last year for nearly 3 months, this guy was fantastic with Chris and Chris related to him so well, anyway he taught Chris snorkeling and Chris loves water so we have enrolled him in a Diving Course in March... he has also started at the gym and thanks to his mentor his confidence and fitness level has increased. His Tourettes are pretty much non-excistant right now but his OCD is shooting up but we think it is because of the stress of the move and starting a new school etc so hopefully that will come right over time again.

We are all going to Aussie in May to the Gold Coast, it is a kids holiday and David and I will be going to Sydney some time later in the year, just the two of us.

All in all things are going pretty well...... will be back soon in a couple of weeks to let you know how school is going.

Attitiude TV and High and Complex Needs Update!!!

UPDATE: Found out the High and Complex Needs has been approved a long 2 years but we got there.....

Well we hit the TV screens yesterday at the moment you can watch it "here", click on part 3 but I think it is only available to New Zealand viewers only but come about Friday it will be available on Youtube which I will post a link to.

Tomorrow is decision day for the High and Complex needs, and we should hear within 5 working days so as you can tell it will be a stressful week for me.

Don't forget to check out my other "blog" to fund raising for Mental Health, which I was doing the 1/2 Marathon but due to my leg still playing up have changed it to a 2.8K surf swim.

Here it is on YouTube:

So whats been happening......

A hell of a lot - still waiting on the High and Complex needs but finally after 2 years they tell me I will know the outcome by the 16th June, so fingers and toes crossed it is going to be a good outcome.

Chris has been doing awesome apart from the last 48 hours, not sure if he is having waxing mood swings if that is possible but he is having them and also he is ticcing quite a bit.

Chris for the last 3 nights has been eating dinner with us at the table and better still eating what we are eating that is a huge breakthrough been years since that has happened long may it last..... we also have been working on his social skills and he is now eating of cafe plates still working on the drinking glasses though.

There was in incident at school last week which has knocked Chris back a bit, I can not discuss it on here at the moment, but it involved a teacher aid (no not his one) and Chris at the moment the school has put it in the hands of the lawyers/unions etc.....

Chris has come so far the last few months it is wonderful, certainly still a battle but I feel like we are getting somewhere. It is not Chris giving me the stress it is dealing with things like High and Complex needs, the incident at school last week etc etc anyway thats it for now I will let you know as soon as i know about the HCN but cross fingers for me it will get approved please.........

My 1/2 Marathon Challenge...

I have set myself a challenge to complete the 1/2 marathon in Taupo in August, I have set up a blog and am using it to fund raise for Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand. To check out the blog click here

I am looking for people to join me so go check it out :-).

Our Day with Attitude TV

Today was the day and what an awesome day... the team that came down were fantastic...... we could not have asked for a nicer group of people to do the filming..... so Thank You!!!!.

Chris was really relaxed with them and it was just a fantastic day and on that note I will leave you with pics.......

Curtis (Presenter) and Chris

Lunch at the Mount

Mount Beach

Cameraman

Director and Cameraman

Steph, Chris and Curtis

Director

Sound Man

Curtis and Me