I am looking at an Australian sensory shop for ideas. I am sure they would be available in USA and probably cheaper sensory stepping stones - rubber https://www.onestopsensoryshop.com.au/product/stepping-stones-2/ a colorful thing that can be pulled apart and put back together https://www.onestopsensoryshop.com.au/product/round-balance-beam/ soft rocking chair https://sensorytools.net/collections/sensory-rocker-chairs/products/soft-play-adult-therapy-chair crash bag https://sensorytools.net/collections/crash-mat-with-foam-filling/products/crash-mat-large-plus-two-bags-of-filling

After years of reading teaching3bears posts I believe she has been working with professionals for a very long time and 2 of her children have an extreme level of disability. She is, in my opinion, a hero, someone who I greatly admire. Her journey is very hard.

What type of equipment would an adult daycare centre have outside?

Really big oversized foam gym pads thingys, that an be stacked or knocked down A tractor tire?

A trampoline?

Twins schoolwork morning Planted seedlings in veggie garden, Kale, parsnip, bok choy, lettuce, snow peas Clean house Twins psycologist came for tea. So I made what twin 2 particularly does not like, lasagne. The psycologest is trying to help him with his extreme food anxiety. At the moment he will not eat any food in the house and gets majorly distressed about any food. The psycologest wanted him to have a food he doesn't like to try help him talk about it while eating. He bravely let the psycologist eat outside with him.

Another suggestion is to look at online sensory shops for ideas

I agree with getting occupational therapy advice. In your country is it possable to access funding for things like this? Here in Australia it is but only with an occupational therapy referal

went to my DD house and completely replanted her veggie garden with winter crops. She had a baby just a few weeks ago. Her Dh got a trailer of 2 year old goat manure and had it sitting there ready for me. I used it to top dress the whole garden. I planted broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, snow peas, green peas, beetroot, radish, shallots, garlic, and bok choy. DD had already planted lettuce, spring onions, leek and silver beet.

an Esky? I now have an Esky in the boot of the car . I take the shopping trolley out to the car and pack into bags there, so it is very easy to load the frozen stuff straight into the Esky. I drive 100 km to the supermarket . to tell you the truth I don't know why it has taken me so long to think of using the Esky. before that I was using double insulation bags for the frozen stuff.

thank you It is hard to get info form ds18. I think he is having a mild case. he is a man of very few words. I have to message very specific questions that he can answer with a yes or no to get any details from him. So I do know that he isn't having trouble breathing and isn't coughing much. I am glad he shifted into a mini unit a month ago. it would have been very hard to do isolation in a bungalow in the back yard of someone's house with no access to food or ability to store food. At least in the unit he has a fridge and a stove.

Or they could have had geese. We have geese. They keep the grass very short and tidy

I am so so sorry Huge hugs

Sending positive thoughts Huge hugs

Ds18 just tested positive. I rang him to make sure he had enough food. He said he feels normal crook. Whatever that means. He said he has been crook for 2 days. My boys are all men of very few words. He sounded awful. But hopefully he has a mild case like his brothers had.

Hope he has a mild dose. My ds 23 and his girlfriend had it last week. He only felt like a heavy cold for 2 days and then they both felt fine. He came out of isolation today. We dropped food off at their front door last week, and the old Nintendo 64. After 2 days playing it nonstop they messaged me and asked how could I stand hearing the sound of it when he was a kid🤣😂🤣

That use to happen here, but they now have absolutely massive fines if a burn off gets out of control and leaves a property, such huge fines that people have to sell their farms to pay it.

I guess if it is her house she can have a say. I rent out a house. the renters are not allowed to have any pets inside.

I guess if you grow up with bushfires in the background every summer like I have you sort of get use to them and they become a regular summer thing

sounds awful hugs

what an awful afternoon huge hugs glad everyone is safe

we did a slight modification to our will. We wrote it out, signed it in front of witnesses. put it in a sealed envelope and gave it to our executor. it is a minor change, and also included details of how we would like to be buried.

dh and I send the whole day replacing the plastic on the polytunnel. it was a big job as the wood bracing etc was 18 years old and needed to be replaced. Tomorrow we will finish the ends off and put back on the doors. the polytunnel is 20 metres long

you see rocks, I see minerals

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