The Christmas "Vacation"

Hello Everyone,  I thought I should write a quick post explaining the lack of videos and blogging lately.  You see, I have children.  Two of them and they are awesome.  I love them both very much and wouldn't trade them for the world and all the money there in.  As the title of my post suggests, I don't really count this break from school a "vacation" for any of us really.  With all the shopping, preparing, wrapping gifts, cleaning, cooking, baking, visiting and every other "ing" I can think of it's hardly a "vacation" from anything except quiet.  Don't get me wrong, I am very far from any type of Scrooge.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE Christmas!  Always have and always will.  Christmas was always a huge deal in our house growing up and I am the same way with my own kids and Husband.  We go all out with decorating and baking and gifting etc.  But that doesn't remove the fact that it is in fact a lot of extra "doing".

And then there's the wee little fact that the children are home for over two weeks from school.  Day in and day out....all day....7 days a week.....ahem, anyway, as I mentioned before I love them very much and I love having them in the house and will surely miss her deeply when our Daughter goes away to college in the not so distant future.  As some of you know we also have a Son with severe Autism.  If you know anything of the disability you will put two and two together and know that this is NOT a vacation for him.  Routine and structure and predictability are what he thrives on and Christmas "vacation" is anything but that.  It starts with weeks of "parties" and shortened classes and new people in the classroom and school plays and much more that just drive him up a wall.  He really really doesn't handle all that hullabaloo very well.  Then, once that's done, there suddenly is no school to go to for a very long time and our Son is incapable of speaking or understanding much of what is said to him.  So as you have guessed at this point, this is a very stressful time for him.  Which in turn makes it a very stressful time for all of us.

But while it's difficult and stressful and sometimes feels hopeless, God has certainly used this trial of Autism to move and work in my whole family in a great and fantastic way.  And Antuan has come a very long long way from the things he wasn't able to do/understand etc over the years and we know that's the Lord.
So my original purpose in this blog was to tell you why I haven't recorded any tutorials/reviews or written a blog in so long.  Now my main purpose in writing this is to tell you that no matter what is hanging around your neck and making you feel like you can't pick up your foot to move one more step, the Lord can and will and is using that situation to heal you and bring you closer to Him and create you to be what He wants you to be in Him.  And that is what really matters.
God bless you all.  Happy New Year and see you in a day or two in a new video!