If the last few years have taught me anything it is just to love the child you have in front of you. Autism Mums don’t have any secret powers, no more patience than the tired Mum next to us. We don’t love our kids any harder, we are winging it along with every other Mum out there.
It’s all too easy to become overwhelmed with the tough days that life inevitably throws our way. But my Mum is still quietly teaching me valuable life lessons. In the past year she has shown me that those moments where we think we have messed up so badly and don’t see light at the end of the tunnel; they become the futures moments of accomplishment to look back on with pride at what we overcame.
And whilst I may frequently feel overwhelmed at what the world chooses to throw my way. Whilst I may feel anything but calm when they choose to bicker with each other. Whilst I doubt myself daily and question whether I’m enough to hold all these jigsaw pieces together and be everything my family needs me to be.
Growing up they only ever really called me Sarah when I was in trouble; instead preferring to call me their "Sunbeam". It is only with becoming a mum to 3 wee sunbeams of my own that I now understand why.
Happiness is a Sunbeam 