One thing we’re not good at–and I’ve said this before–is making sure the Cabana Boy and I have time away from the kids with other adults. It’s something parents of special needs children really need to do as often as they can, to replenish their own sense of identity. As the folks at Hopelights say: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘respite’
8 Aug
A breath of fresh air
This weekend the Cabana Boy and I took a break. We left the children with my daughter’s day care business and we went out of town. Not far. Just to Pittsburgh. But as far as we were concerned, it was a world away. Not only did we deserve it; our kids deserved it, too. Respite [...]
21 Apr
That headache time of year
No, I don’t mean allergy season, though that certainly would apply. I mean summer, and its attendant crisis-level situations about what to do when you have two working parents, special needs children, and services to arrange around family demands. We’re all busy. Even without the challenges I know a lot of you parents have of [...]
20 Mar
Tunnel vision
Our life with autism has been steadily heading toward a dark tunnel, and I’m afraid the train is about to arrive. While Little Miss seemed to be coming along so well up till this year, fourth grade has made it clear that she has real issues I’ve written off to language delays or other “fixable” [...]
1 Jul
Ah, brief respite!
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 [...]
19 Apr
Bad parents! No soup for you!
So the long-suffering Cabana Boy and myself conceived it would be a great idea to steal a date night for the two of us. What were we thinking? We left the children with my daughter, who has five kids of her own, knowing they were in good hands, and headed to Erie–I know, not the [...]
8 Apr
This little light of mine
This week, I got an email from my mother-in-law, where my sister-in-law forwarded to HER this link. She thought it would be useful, apparently, because it was about Autism. Now I appreciate the thought. But at this stage of the game, that article is pretty much useless to us. My son was diagnosed five years [...]
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