A phenomenon many divorce attorneys encounter each year between mid-November and January 2 is the sudden drop-off of clients and client activity. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the holiday lull, the last-ditch effort to grasp the fast-fading warm feeling of family or at least the rational attempt to try to preserve the illusion that ‘everything [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’
20 Sep
Moving forward
I write a lot about Little Miss and Captain Oblivious, our two autism-diagnosed children. Ditto Boy you hear about less. Talk about middle-child syndrome! Not only is he the middle child, he’s the second boy, AND he’s only ADD. He probably does get lost from time to time. This is an issue that comes to [...]
8 Jul
The Expedition
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 [...]
14 Jun
The more, the merrier?
My Seattle daughter is now my Pensacola daughter–or will be Sunday night when she arrives in Florida after spending four days with us, along with her three little ones, ages 7, 5 and 3. She made the trip cross country to see all the “grands” before they get settled into their new home.
It had been [...]
6 May
Approaching equilibrium
You know, every once in awhile you just hit a real bump in the road.
So many of us “manage,” we do the best we can every day as spouses, as parents, to try to keep our fingers in the old dyck for as long as possible. But sooner or later, the water just gets too [...]
28 Apr
Inching toward normalcy
We’ve had a remarkably non-autistic week.
The children have squabbled with each other and bossed each other just like everyone else’s kids. They’ve told endless jokes at the dinner table. It’s been maddening. But again, this must be progress.
Captain Oblivious is recovering well and has discovered that he can, in fact, walk on his cast [...]
2 Apr
For World Autism Awareness Day
They say if you’ve seen one person with autism…you’ve seen one person with autism.
Now you’ve seen two–AND Ditto Boy. Talk about neurodiversity…
24 Mar
Who moved my empty nest?!
I was reading this article on empty nests, and it seems experts find this less an issue these days. I suspect that has something to do with the fact that women are no longer relegated to housewife status, and many of us have outside interests to pursue full-time once the children move out.
Ah, there’s the [...]
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