December is here

I hope that everyone has been enjoy December. The weather here in Texas has been sunny and warm the past week so the kids have continued to enjoy playing outside, sometimes in shorts and t-shirts :-) They keep predicting cooler temperatures to come, but we haven't seen them yet. Personally I would be perfectly happy keeping the current temperatures as they are, but I know many people I know want the cooler weather to make it's appearance so it starts to feel like Christmas. We have been keeping busy as usual between Jack's school and therapy schedule and I Peyton and I finally made it to a play date this morning. It was nice seeing our friends and hopefully we will be able to start participating again more regularly. Justin got some Christmas decorations put up on the outside of the house but we still haven't gotten around to decorating the inside yet. The inside decorating will have to wait another week because Justin and Peyton are leaving tomorrow evening to take a daddy-daughter trip to visit Joyce and Michael in Champaign, IL. While Jack and I are going to have a fun mommy-son weekend here which will include a visit to see Santa. I will miss my little lady but I know she will have a blast visiting with her aunt and uncle and she is very excited to meet and play with there dog, Barnaby.

This past weekend Justin and I had a very rare but exciting opportunity to have a date! We have found a wonderful girl who works at Fossil who came over to watch the kids while Justin and I went out to have lunch and see a movie (Skyfall which was terrific). We don't get many opportunities now a days to get out, just the two of us, without the kiddos. We usually try and find time to have a date night when we have family in town, but this was one of the first times we left the kids with a babysitter. Finding a babysitter is a very big step for any parent and since our families don't live locally we had always discussed how it would be nice to find a babysitter so we could have the occasional "date night". Finding a person who you trust is hard enough but finding someone who will understand and is willing to watch a child with autism can make the search even more difficult. I have always had a hard time leaving the kids with anyone, which I am always told is a normal mom reaction, but I do realise it is important to find time to be a couple. So I am very grateful we have found someone who the kids really enjoy being with and who we can trust.

I hear Peyton waking up from here nap so I will have to sign off now. I hope everyone has a great week!