One of our goals this year was to do at least two volunteer activities as a family. Fortunately, in Austin, there’s a non-profit organization that makes this kind of goal relatively easy for us. Little Helping Hands publishes a calendar every month of new volunteer activities and experiences. The problem is that the calendar fills up very fast. 

So far, we’ve been able to sign up for two of them: volunteering at a homeless shelter to make a meal and–most recently–doing arts and crafts at a home for senior citizens.  

Visiting the senior living center was a wonderful experience for so many reasons. First, it pushed all of us out

We started going to counseling to help support Henry with his self-regulation, and the first thing the therapist wanted to know about was our routines. 

I didn’t realize our life was so routinized until I started explaining it!