Posted in autism, life, parenthood, tagged Alex Comfort, children, clean sweep, responsibility, treasure, vacation on July 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Each year when the children are gone, we steel ourselves for the ultimate evil–cleaning out the children’s rooms. Of course, they are expected each week to pick their rooms up and keep them neat! But as we have found particularly this year, they have found new sneaky and intricate ways to keep from meeting that [...]
Posted in autism, divorce, life, parenthood, walkabout, tagged absence, autistic, freedom, grandparent, reconnect, respite, single parent, vacation, visit on July 1, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Poet Anne Shaw says, “Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.” This is undeniably true.
One of the few advantages I had as a single mother for many years is that my children’s father lived 1500 miles away. (No, not because he was far away! [...]
Posted in autism, life, parenthood, tagged Asperger's, school, middle school, destroy, change, tv watching, cartoons on June 28, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Friday morning, we set off bright and early to take Ditto Boy to his Y summer day camp, and when we get to the end of the street, we see this:
This is his school. Or…was. He’ll be in fifth grade in the fall. The fifth-grade rooms are that front pile of rubble on the left.
I [...]
Posted in autism, life, parenthood, tagged advice, Aspie, clue, search, TSS, wraparound agency on June 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I always find the posts fascinating where people analyze how folks wandering the InterWebs find their blog. Like my friend over at Odd One Out, , with her somewhat unfortunate but benificent discussion of slug genitals, it’s hard to believe what gets people to this page.
Most voyages are fairly explicable. Many people ended up here [...]
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