you know you live in the SN world when..........

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you realize if you won 7 million in the lottery you wouldn't give any away as you actually could use it all.

(add your own please, for a happy Friday fred)

you feel blessed for the small but wonderful things your children do that others would not consider for a second.

"knee cruising" becomes a milestone.

When you get to be silly in public and your pre teen isn't embarrassed :)

when your not suprised about anything and everything is 'normal'

:o

you realise you have many more therapist, support worker, school, doctor, group numbers in your phone than friends. And then shortly followed by the realisation that these people are sometimes more part of your family than some of the real members of your family.

you walk into outpatients at the hospital and everyone knows you and your child and genuinely cares about how things are going.

You get a little over excited about your child talking to someone without having to be prompted.

you have a whole vocabulary that the nt world has never heard.

You never recycle the daily newspapers in your house - they all get used up for wrapping 'presents', making paper mache (and your airing cupboard is full of it), and newspaper confetti.

When you dont blink at spending £££ on SN equiptment, ut baulk at spending £30 on a pair of jeans.

When I feel content that DS has gone to school having eaten 2 hobnobs instead of his usual empty stomach :o

You beam with pride when your child greets someone with "I did a poo in the toilet".

when being woken by your 15yr old needing covering up again during the night is normal

you find some obscure pokemon items in a charity shop and know dd2 would be estatic with that. oh and y7ou learn the difference between pikachu and pi-chu.

You still have a Woolworths catalogue from 2007 because your dd hoards catalogues and knows every single one she has.

...you deride Supernanny's efforts as overly simplistic :)

When you hand signal everyone when they are speaking, touch everyone on their shoulder to gain that extra attention and tell the lady on the tills that you are having a red card moment to explain your grumpiness .. And they look at you like this .

And nose blowing on duvet covers is just part and parcel
:)

When you go out with a newborn and a toddler, you take more stuff or the toddler.

When you dont read your three year old a bedtime story - he recited the Gruffalo cartoon to you.

When you know more facts about the Nintendo ds and ds games than your average 8 year old boy.

When your own 8 year old boy is the only one in the school wearing ear defenders at the school fireworks display.

When you have before and after school and homework schedules pinned to both your kitchen and front doors.

When you have been to the same place and done the same things on holiday every single year for the past seven years.

When the Headmaster ducks behind another parent to hide from you if you catch his eye in the playground!

When your 4 year old takes the register at church

When you make an emergency phonecall to DH's work because you've run out of strawberries

When you have a shed in the garden big enough for 2 horses to store the lego

When you have more DVD's than blockbusters

When you live with 2 autistic people and you start to wonder if you're the one who is weird

you start signing to random people you come across

When the magnetic letters on the fridge are arranged in perfect alphabetical order by your 2 year old.

When the social worker advises that you should look in the pet section of the argos catalogue for a slightly taller than average stairgate to fence in your child and that is actually a welcome suggestion.

When your child's first language is vtech.

When you haven't actually ever submitted a complaint letter or been rude to anyone but everyone treats you like a difficult, obstructive parent so they can deny your child what they need and make you seem like the unreasonable one.

when you hear another child crying and automatically make sure your child isn't in the vicinity.

When your looking for a bag big enough and actually come to theconclusion that a suitcase would be just the job.. To haul into school because the EP has asked you to bring in your home stratagies and things use use at home to see how they can be adapted for school life... Or you consider just taking photos of it all :)

When your household insurance premiums have gone up by £100 per year because of the VOCA he has!

When the washing is out of control due to needing to change the bed linen nearly every bloody day!!

When they can make you laugh and cry over the same thing.

eek, change your insurance company slightly!
i added a £13,000 MyTobii to mine and it didnt cost a thing!

when the senior HV is trying to get you a part time job in her office in charge of ordering feeding equipment supplies for the whole county as you know more about it than she does