I know I know it's been a while since I last posted but life in the Shaffer house has been insane.

We had to take our S to the city 3hrs away to get her assessed. Her assessment came back that she has autistic disorder. It was the hardest for me to deal with the news. As any parent would know that there is nothing worse then having someone tell you something is wrong with your child.

We have now started all the paperwork for funding through our govt to get her a speech therapist, a special aid for school. The school has been wonderful as they are putting her in full time so she can be around kids and learn to socialize with them.

There are many things that are happening all at once and its exhausting but hubby and I are hopeful that she will be ok and be able to hold a job and live a somewhat normal life. We have read the different parts of autism and the characteristics of it and we are grateful that she doesn't have the extreme behavioral problems or twitching, etc. She basically has the delayed speech as her maine one that we have to get outside help with. Also her social skills are lacking so she is gonna be a busy girl with activities to get her out there socializing and interacting with other kids.

It seems she will start soccer soon (lmfao I am gonna be a soccer mom afterall) and in the fall we will start her on bowling as she loves that and her Opa will coach her.

Everything will be ok we are certain of that as we are working so very hard to do everything in our powers to get her to be ok and develop somewhat normal with her peers.

So that is where I have been in the last little while. Sorry I didn't tell anyone where I was going. Only one person knew where I had disappeared to.