Autism Awareness Day - Preperations

We have been in contact with the events organiser at KK castle and will be meeting with her next week to discuss the formalities of holding a family picnic in the grounds on Sunday 1st April to celebrate Autism awareness day. Hopefully we will have full details in time for the next meeting on the 7th.

Aine

Kids Social Club !

On Tuesday we discussed further the idea of starting up a club for the children where they could come along and 'hang out' play games etc.

I received a call today from Noreen who runs the Special needs support group, and she told me they have sucessfully started up just such a club based at the Father McGrath centre.

I have invited her along to the next meeting so we can have a chat about the possibility of joining forces on this project !


Aine

Text Service

Following on from discussions at Tuesday's meeting ...  it was decided in order to keep the text service running as smoothly as possibly and to avoid nuisance texts, that everyone on the current list should be sent a sms to ask if they would like to continue receiving updates for the group.

If you would like to stay on our text list please either reply with 'yes' or contact us using the email address provided under the contact tab of the blog by Friday 20th Jan.

Many thanks

Next Meeting Tuesday 10th Jan

Topics to be discussed include .

Further discussions on the DCA and possibilities of tackling it as a group.

Some kind of 'Saturday or Sunday Club ... maybe just once a month, given the huge success of the party .

and finally ideas for fundraising and days out, plus the xbox/ps3 challenge for the older children

Looking forward to to catching up with you all.

Merry Christmas

A very Merry Christmas to you all and a huge thank you to all who came yesterday. Just seeing all the children have so much fun TOGETHER was amazing, and not one meltdown in sight, huge pat on the back to everyone. Thanks to the girls for making this happen, and huge thanks to ... the butchers for supplying the yummy food, the girls at the club for opening up and helping us out, Kriztina and Ger for the music, you all for coming along and bringing food, the kids themselves for being such superstars, and of course my wonderful Husband ( AKA Master chef ) for his continued support and belief in my abilities !


 Have a super Christmas and see you all in the New Year x Aine

Taking Care of myself

The book Maria was talking about last night is Called 'taking care of myself', I had a quick look and found it here at play.com Click here for link  for those who don't already know, play offer free delivery to Ireland.

Hot Topics

So after last nights discussions I think we have two/three things we'd like to tackle.

1. looking more in depth at the idea of some kind of questionnaire we can use to prove how much our children depend on us ( so get your thinking caps on for next meeting ! )

2. A day trip for the kids to either the Reptile village or loving the idea of the treasure hunt in castlecomer, so we need to cost coaches and discuss some fundraising

3. the x-box / ps3 challenge for those too old for a day outand of course something for the lil ones too.

look forward to hearing your ideas !!

Aine