The past few weeks have been out of control busy. I made a conscious effort to slow down and that has helped a little. Brian has been very busy at work. He has had presentations various inspections and so forth. He has done well and ended his busy time by speaking in our Christmas devotional at church last night. We had Young( our respite worker)scheduled to come watch Spencer, but it fell through. I really wanted to see Brian speak and participate in our ward's festivities. With a lot of prayer and preparation Spencer was able to sit through the full two hours of the Christmas program! He has worked on sitting at home and his limit is usually 15 minutes tops!!! We try to help him sit through church every week, but he usually lasts only a few minutes before becoming loud and pulling on us to take him out of the church. On Halloween we went to the dinner carnival and it was only two minutes in before Spencer was crying and wanted to leave.
I was determined to make this time work.~ We brought his pecs(picture exchange communications system) book to have him ask for food at dinner, he had his favorite bristle blocks to keeps his hands busy, to keep him occupied, and I had a bag of M&Ms for back up when he decided to get loud. Oh, and he took his sleep medicine he takes nightly on time which happened to be before the party.:) We watched a slide show of the ward participating in various activities through the year. The kids enjoyed seeing when our family members photos were shown. I felt the spirit very strong and was extremely pleased to have the whole family listen to Brian and be there for the songs, food, and musical numbers. Brian talked of love, hope, and charity. Also, how we can know Christ and try to become like him. Spencer stayed up way past 11pm at home , but it was great that he did so well earlier in the evening. It is always great to be together as a family and to feel warm inside.
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