My Heart Was In Pieces

This morning Kassidy broke my heart. She was having a HARD morning. School started back up yesterday after Christmas break but Kassidy didn't go because she had been up since 2am the night before with, let's just say "tummy issues" which after our 10th (that's right, I said 10) visit to Mr. Toilet she could hardly walk due to her hurting bum.  So today was Kassidy's first day back and she was a wreck. She had the look in her eyes as if we were sending her to stand in front of a firing squad. The anxiety she was feeling and the terror in her face just killed me. Of all the different things we deal with about her autism, I think that the anxiety she faces is the hardest, it is for me anyway.