Around here, we genuinely try to celebrate the little victories, no matter how small they might seem to those around us. Today would be a great example of one of those.
Today was PE day...if you have read some of the other posts, you know that that means not wearing the beloved, and comfortable cowboy boots. Something that causes a sensory meltdown at the mere idea of putting on the tennis shoes and trying to get the pants comfortably tucked into them (she won't wear short tennis shoes...only the ones that go most of the way up her lower leg, and pants have to go inside the shoes, not outside).
While she hates having to wake up in the morning, and never gets quite as much sleep as she wants, she does better on the mornings where she gets up on her own and starts a project or something in her room...this morning, I have no clue what she was working on, but even tho we were running late (I'm still not feeling the best, after having been sick for going on a week now), she still just sat herself on the floor, and put those dreaded shoes on without a single meltdown.
It has helped both of us out quite a bit to know more of what is going on...what is the underlying cause of things. She gives herself more slack, and I am finally becoming more patient/relaxed about it myself. So when we have those moments of small victories, we now know to just enjoy this moment, for what it is...today's little victory. It doesn't mean that we won't struggle on the next PE day, it just means that this morning we went to school without a meltdown. And we will take it!
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Thanks for the encouraging message!