Well this year I asked my mom during her annual cookie day to see if she could look up a recipe that would work for Aidan and by golly she did! I am very proud of her and this first step she made. We will have to perfect the ingredients list a little better next year (coconut oil and no oatmeal) but overall it was lovely to have her step up and research a recipe and complete it just for Aidan.
The holidays were not so horrible. Thanksgiving we went away to Knotts. And Christmas we went to my parents Christmas Eve to have a feast I brought over from Trader Joe's, tamales and beans and chips and salsa. And Christmas day was the toughest at my aunts for a feast mostly none of which Aidan could have including tons of deserts all except his cookies he couldn't have. Keeping him away from the low table of these was hard. We had some external external family show up and something happened that was disturbing to me and reminiscent of my youth: every family but mine the kids were invited over for a sleep over. That was a bummer. This happened at my Christmas eve with my dad's side pretty much every Christmas where plans for a Big Bear trip not involving my family was discussed across the table in detail between the other brothers and sisters but not my dad. I am trying to decipher whether my son wasn't invited because well plainly he has autism and would be a handful and I would've said no anyhow etc etc or because simply they are just plain rude. Probably a mixture of both I suppose. What can you do. We didn't stay too long made it through food and opened presents outside with the kids and took some photos and that was our Christmas day there. Aidan did well overall.
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