Give Your High Fives For The Medium Wins

Oh, my gosh. I look a fright. Anyway, hi, everybody. Happy Thursday. I'm Miss Shannon. Let's see how this goes. I got. If you're. If you join us in the replay, you can not only hear me talking to you right now, but you can hear Cyclone kid in the other room, and he is in the process of dismantling the play mats that live on his wall. So we will see how that goes. It's very exciting. Oh. For anybody who wonders what is going on, I know a lot of families. What they do is they spend all of their time preparing for spring break.

And normally, you would be doing something very exciting and spring breaking in some incredibly warm climb, or you would be going to. Hi, Steph. Thanks for joining me. I was just in the process of talking about how normally. Oh, my gosh. I just broke. Steph. You got to see real life there because my tripod just decided that it was going to spring my phone, like, Bullfrog style, over onto the other side of the room. So welcome. That gives you a good an idea of how life has been going here if my household was Miss Shannon.

Hello. Jules, as well. Hello. So we, as far as being a caregiver, we are very real in my house, and this week is spring break. It's spring break here, and instead of being very fancy and going off to some warm climb or taking my kid to Disney world, we are staying here in balmy, Minnesota. Thank you, staff, for feeling me. I appreciate you where you're, like, really? Like, I'm serious. Like, here's part of my. My tripod. Like, I don't know what this sticky part was supposed to do, but it did not continue to stick.

All right, we'll worry about that later. Hi, Jules. So it's been a fun week. Cyclokid is in his room. Maybe we'll go visit him a second, or he might decide to come visit us. To bring you up to speed, everybody, I am miss Shannon. I have an adorable 16 year old kiddo who happens to also be high supports on the autism spectrum, and we are spring breaking this year, and we are not doing anything fancy. You ain't go off to Florida or Cape Cod. Do people spring breaking Cape Cod? I don't even know. It just sounded good, so I said that, and I'm just gonna go with my brain.

But we just stayed home, and we've been actually resetting and just kind of working on some foundational things this week so we can happily go back to school. Shh, shh. You don't want me to say that word, we can go back to that actually set up for success next week. So the thing that I wanted to remind everybody to do is, don't we spend a lot of time? Because especially if you are caregiving, you have these big goals. You're like, okay, here's all of the things that I set out at the beginning of the year, because you have to set goals for yourself and the people that you're taking care of for what you want to accomplish for the year.

So we set all these big goals, and then as we're reaching and striving for those big goals, a lot of times we forget to go, hey, good job on getting to, like, that little goal or that medium goal, or even if it wasn't a goal, just something that you had been working towards maybe for so long that you forgot you even working on it. And so you got to come up to yourself and, like, I call it, I give myself a high five, you know, kind of thing. Like, there it was a meme that you can get that you could from, like, it was a 30 rock episode, you know, where she, like, gave herself a high five.

You need to do yourself that. I did that to myself. And if you follow me on socials, I'm a post about this later, because I actually got to, like, film it, and I was very, very, very proud. And here's what happened. My kiddo, like a lot of kiddos out there and a lot of human beings, just in general, is a pretty picky eater. And so I have been working on just broadening what he is willing to eat. And so this year, he's in the bathroom now just making teenage noises. And he was really, really picky about what he was going to eat.

And so for the first time, and I kid you not, like, six years of me just trying to go, hey, here's another thing you used to like to eat. Will you eat it again? So what he decided he was going to eat again for me is I made waffles, toaster waffles with peanut butter on them. And he ate them. And not only just ate them one day, he ate them two days in a row for me. When I said, oh, okay. Hey, how about some toaster waffles? He's like, waffles, please. Okay, we got waffles, please. Good for me. And I'm like, peanut butter?

And he didn't say no. So I hurried up and put it on it, and I just served him, you're gonna go outside. That's the. Where's he going? There he is. He's going outside. So it's a good day to go outside. It's sunshine in here. You gonna go out? Do you wanna go out? Are you gonna come sit with mom or you're gonna go talk to the cat? You come sit. Maybe you'll come sit. We'll see. But, I mean, I was over the moon excited and happy that this thing happened. Cause it seems like a really small thing, but in our house, it's a big deal.

It's a big deal. And it's hard to explain to other people how big of a deal that was to me. And it seems like a small thing to actually get them to do that. But, hey, I think we deserve to get some credit for it. Hi. You gonna come say hi? Do you want me to say goodbye? Goodbye. Okay, so we gotta go say goodbye. Goodbye. So tell everybody, say, I'll talk to you later. Okay, so, everybody, we'll see you next week. Work. Yeah, I got to go parent y'all, so give yourself a high five every once in a while.

You deserve it. So, bye.