Di Maitland is an extraordinary person. When her second son, Nick, was born, her life changed forever. Although she had worked with special needs children in London, and was happily married to a South African, she was far from her home in New Zealand.
When she was unable to find a school where Nick’s needs were being adequately met, she opened her own little school for children with autism, Kids First, which has given her and Allan her husband peace of mind and Nick a wonderful place to grow.
We are all so lucky to have people like Di in our community…usually the busiest people, who take on every challenge that life throws at them and turn what could be a negative into as close to a positive as possible . They teach us not to take the wonderful lives we have for granted, and to count our blessings. Life comes in many shapes and sizes, and in many forms. There is nothing to fear in the unknown, and we should all try and rid ourselves of our prejudices, learn, push our boundaries and barriers back a little. Smile.
As they say in the East, ‘He alone is the happy man who has learned to extract happiness not from ideal conditions but from actual ones about him’, and as Di prepares for her annual trip away with Thomas her other son, she epitomises every word. Check out her blog next time you are feeling like life is getting you down, www.brightsideoflifeasd.blogspot.com.
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Some people have a gift for turning what could be a negative into a positive. That is one cool momma XXX