The gifting struggle is REAL!

 So, like all kids, my son has his Christmas list. What’s a little different is that Griffin wants things that no longer exist or are super hard to find. Example one is he found a “full body realistic dinosaur puppet” online that was sold over 10 years ago and the company went out of business. He’s asked for it now the past 2 Christmases even though we have explained that we cannot buy them anymore AND we’ve bought puppets galore of other dinosaurs trying to pacify the obsession. He still brings it up even though we have said THEY DO NOT EXIST! Yes, I’ve tried looking on eBay and googling any other websites to find one, shoot I even emailed the original business owner asking if he could help me at all. Turns out he made costumes and props for movies so he doesn’t respond to emails about kid’s puppets anymore. This can be one of our trials with autism. When Griffin gets his mind on an item, he is very stressed until he can get one and doesn’t always understand waiting. You will hear about this item everyday and he will continue to ask for it with hopes that the answer will change if he just keeps asking. With the continued “no,” he will fall apart into a crying episode that always goes from “I’m sad they are out of business” to “I miss my papaw.” Yeah, we go from 0 to 10 pretty quickly then he ends up having to lie down in his room and he’s usually ok after some rest. Having said all that, I DID find a puppet closest to the original one we could ever find and it was supposed to be delivered today. For the first time ever, it was delivered to the wrong address, OF COURSE! After a few phone calls, our post office was able to sort it out and picked it up from the wrong location and still got it to me the same day. So kudos to them! I will have to update after Christmas and tell if this puppet was good enough or not. Pray for me! We need to move past this puppet that no longer exists!!!! 🤪