World of Autism

These last few weeks have been really unbelievable.  We’ve had a series of unplanned events that we all had to get through, and Lucas came through with flying colors!

 I mentioned that my uncle died on August 24.  We attended his funeral, and Lucas did pretty well.  Of course, we got caught in traffic on the way home, causing our normally 2 hour drive to stretch to 4 hours, which was hard for Lucas.

But then my aunt died on September 12.  She had been in the hospital since August 11, and I had been back and forth since then to visit her.  Lucas had to get used to Mom being gone on weekends, which threw him just a little (but not much).

But her death was truly difficult for us all, as she was so much more than just an aunt.  She was one of my best friends, and more like a grandmother than a great aunt to Lucas and Robert.  

Of course, this meant another funeral.  As we stood in the Church waiting to follow Aunt Fran’s casket in, I couldn’t stop crying.  Lucas leaned over and said to me, “Mom, I hate this, either.”  Bless his heart, he did his best to comfort me. 

The weeks after Aunt Fran’s funeral had me driving to her apartment to help clear it out on weekends.  But now that’s done, so I’m able to get back on track with writing, and putting our lives together without Aunt Fran.  She was so much a part of it, and it will take some time to get used to not having her around. 

I think that Lucas learned some things about sadness and death during these past two months, and I KNOW he’s tried hard to be good while I’ve dealt with all these things. 

But life goes on, so I’ll be sharing photos of the Special Olympics Soccer Skills event, probably in the next few days.

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