After my retirement, I had intended to spend more time at Hive writing articles and also creating content. However, things do not always go as planned. For the past few months, I had been missing in action and had not posted any articles in Hive. I guess a lot of you must be wondering what happened to @positivestyle
A lot of you know that I have an autistic son, Jonathan and I had written many articles about my experience with him. Caring for and looking after him is not an easy task and requires a lot of effort, time, and especially patience. In the past, we used to have a maid from Indonesia who does the housework and also assist us to look after Jonathan. My last maid after working for 4 years with us had returned to Indonesia. We had a hard time getting a replacement. Since my wife Roselind and my daughter Victoria are working, the house chores and primary care of Jonathan fall on my shoulders. I must admit that our family had been rather pampered as we always had a live-in maid to assist us.
Without a maid, I am busy the whole day doing all the house chores and taking care of Jonathan, leaving me no time to write for Hive. But it is also an interesting time as well. Now at the age of 61 years, I am learning how to cook for the first time. Thank God, there are so many YouTube videos that can guide me to prepare simple meals for my family. For the past few months, my cooking skills (dare I say culinary skills) improve tremendously and now I can cook a range of simple dishes. As Jonathan still goes to the Kuching Autistic Association center in the morning, I had to also to make two trips to send him to the center and bring him home. All my afternoons are spent with Jonathan.
In our daily routine, we try to be as inclusive as possible and where possible include Jonathan in all our activities. In September this year, our family went to Kuala Lumpur to attend a wedding and for a short holiday. During that trip, we also brought along Jonathan. Although it is not possible to bring Jonathan to the wedding dinner, he was included in all the other activities. We also brought Jonathan for a 3 days tour of the Cameroon Highlands after the wedding.
Jonathan is part and parcel of our lives. We bring Jonathan with us when we go shopping for groceries, eat out at restaurants, exercise at the park, or go swimming. In what we do, we try to include Jonathan. The only exception is when we go for long holidays, we need to leave Jonathan at home. The main reason for this is that Jonathan is unable to sit in the plane for long periods of time.
I now have a maid and at the moment we are applying for her work permit. I do pray that all will work out.
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It's not an easy task to be you. Keep going man. Hope to see one day you'll be continuously posting on a daily basis, show us more of your journey
Thank you bro. I am so happy that I receive so much encouragement. I intend to spend more time and have to work out a schedule. Now that I have a maid, I will have more time for posting.
just today I saw and read again stories in everyday life from you, it's true what kids say it's been a few months since you've been absent from sharing stories on hive.
I am one of your fans and I am also one who is very interested in reading stories from you, very happy because you can share stories again together here in the #aseanhive community
after all I read and I listened to the meaning of the writing you shared this time it turns out that the life you are feeling this time is quite difficult for you to live, the responsibility of a father that you run now is also very heavy, but I applaud what you are doing now to accompany your favorite son is jonathan,
he does look very happy when he bathes in the swimming pool, maybe his pleasure is because he is accompanied by a very loyal father who accompanies him as well as a very loyal mother who accompanies him wherever he goes, hopefully your family my best friend will always be given health by God who almighty... Amen....
@alvonsohiver , I am very touched by what you have written. Your comments give me a lot of hope and encouragement. I hope that I can continue to share more of my stories here.
yes that's true, because your presence to share stories in your daily life, can be an inspiration for all of us,because you are one of the talented writers,and I am very interested in reading stories in our daily life,and you are a father who is full of responsibility, I am always to you my best friend,,, good health always..
Thank you very much for your kind words. I am happy that my writing is able to inspire others.
The stage of human life is really like that, good, bad, happy, laughing, crying are common to all of us, go through this hardship and we will be strong and victorious in the future.
I agree with you. Life is full of ups and downs. We should approach each day with positivity.
Yes dear.
I salute you very much, taking care of a son who has shortcomings is not an easy thing, but you are a patient person in all fields.
Thank you for starting to write articles again,I am eagerly waiting for your writing and the story about your son.
Thank you so much for your encouragement. I will try to commit more time to writing more here. I need to readjust my schedule.
Jonathan is blessed to have a father who looks after him. I have a nephew with autism too. People with autism require a lot of care and attention. My respect goes to you!
It is not easy to care for my autistic son but I am grateful of the progress that he has made.
Looking forward to seeing more special things about him here :)
Thank you so much. I will continue to write more stories about my son.
welcome back Mr. @positivesteem on hive, hopefully your work will get a worthy reward from Allah swt.
Thank you. I will start spreading my positivity here again.
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I didn't know your son was a flyer, that's pretty impressive with autism. I can only imagine how the sensory overload combined with the closed quarters and limited freedom of traveling on planes could potentially affect him. Good to hear you're cooking, I guess we're never too young or old to learn new things.
Thanks for the update, I didn't really know your reason for taking a Hive break, but I assumed it had something to do with household duties. I am sure it will be an adjustment period for you, but hey, we're kind of both house-husbands now 😉. I do a large part of the housework and cooking due to my wife's health issues, but I quite enjoy it so long as I still have time to Hive and earn income for the family.
It is a very challenging role but you made it, I salute a parent like you who never give up for the sake of their kids. Just thinking about the effort you made just to help out the entire family in keeping the home organize is really amazing. Congratulations on learning how to cook, now I am more convinced that if you really want to learn something you can really do it.
Thank you my friend. Yes I do hope that my son will get better.