I was blessed with a couple of hours at home this morning due to the snow causing a two-hour delay. At one point, I was working on selecting pictures to order online for a couple of Christmas gifts, and Michael came in to the room and wanted to take some [...]
For anyone who may not have seen this meme before, To-Do Tuesday was started by Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting for the purpose of attacking our to-do lists each week, blogging about our lists and what we’ve got going on, and sharing it [...]
Pictures of decorating the tree seems to be the theme for today (and a lovely theme it is!), so I’ll share ours as well. I am just so happy that it is done! It didn’t seem to take as long this year, possibly because Michael is so much more helpful [...]
For anyone who may not have seen this before, To-Do Tuesday was started by Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting for the purpose of attacking our to-do lists each week, blogging about our lists and what we’ve got going on, and sharing it with [...]
The regular students in my son’s first grade classroom have to complete a think sheet if they pull all four of their cards in one day, so when we created my son’s behavior plan, we wanted to include a think sheet for use after a timeout (timeouts are for yelling [...]
Now that Thanksgiving has passed, it’s more than time to be finishing up Christmas presents. Especially since my husband’s family has decided to celebrate on the weekend before Christmas! (I’m totally fine with those plans, if any of you are reading, by the way. It just means I [...]
My son recently completed his first swim class, called Angel Fish I, which was eight sessions at one of the local community centers. The teachers were great, especially the main teacher, Ryan. He was very comfortable with Michael and got a lot out of him. The only thing that Michael [...]
First of all, to break down the title, “healing prayer” in this case refers to inner healing, not physical, and “on the go” refers to in my car on the way to work this morning.
I have been feeling tired. I get so frustrated that I [...]
For anyone who may not have seen this before, To-Do Tuesday was started by Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting for the purpose of attacking our to-do lists each week, blogging about our lists and what we’ve got going on, and sharing it with [...]
As any mother of young children can attest, there are lots of theories about approaching potty training, and there are usually as many people willing to offer their suggestions on the “right way” to accomplish the goal.
But, just as with any other area of parenting, success comes down to what [...]
Ah, a blank page.
Sometimes a good thing, at other times not so good.
No matter how many times I think it doesn’t really matter if I write down all the thoughts swirling through my head, I just can’t let go of the idea that it is important to do it. Things [...]
I finally downloaded the pictures from last week, and I didn’t really get any good ones from Trick or Treat. But I took a bunch of shots at the Halloween party at school and thought these turned out pretty well.
For Halloween at my son’s school, the students and teachers dress [...]
Nothing in my brain is really connected right now, so this post may not make much sense. But I wanted to at least keep people up to date with the main stuff.
First of all, I’m so irritated with myself that I haven’t downloaded the pictures from Trick or Treat or [...]
For anyone who may not have seen this before, To-Do Tuesday was started by Lisa @ Crazy Adventures in Parenting for the purpose of attacking our to-do lists each week, blogging about our lists and what we’ve got going on, and sharing it with [...]
The first scary thing is a fun thing. Tonight I finished the bingo cards for the school party this Friday. They are a mix of handmade and computer-generated, and each kid will get a bag of candy corn to use for markers. The homeroom parent had done a similar [...]
Other than going to church last night, we totally crashed yesterday. So I was happy that I had a pretty productive day today – I am on track to finishing 4 loads of laundry, and I have the bingo cards for Friday’s school party over halfway done. I think they [...]
It’s 1:01 pm on Saturday, and I am starting a new blog post. It’s part of the Mom’s 30-Minute Blog Challenge over at SteadyMom, so I am giving myself 30 minutes to write this post and publish it. I will have to go in on Tuesday to link [...]
On every personality test that’s out there, I come up solidly in the thinker/detail-oriented/analytical/fact-finding quadrant. This has its good points, but can also have a down side.
One of the things I have to remember is that not everyone is as focused on the little details all being correct and that [...]
Sorry for yet another week of absence from this blog – outside of a fun trip on Saturday, my time has been focused almost entirely on the behavior plan we are getting ready to start at school with Michael. I think we finally have something good [...]
Well, I didn’t get much checked off my list this last week – too many other things kept popping up that needed to be done. After going round and round with the DAN! doctor’s office, I have decided to get copies of all the test results [...]
We’re in the mainstream now, baby! I just saw this clip on Age of Autism and felt like I was in the twilight zone (in a good way).
Listen to this short clip where Dr. Oz discusses inflammation of the brain as contributing to autism and how simple dietary changes [...]
Okay, how scary is this? SimpleMom.net is doing a series on 12 Weeks to a Peaceful Christmas, and, not only has it already started, but today’s post was on Week 11!
Does it count that I already have 34 Christmas cards ready since I didn’t get [...]
[This is where there should be an eye-catching, relevant image. Alas, I do not have one, but I'm posting this anyway. I hope you'll read it despite the lack of appealing blogginess.]
A friend and I were talking recently about how old hurts and insecurities can pop up when we least [...]
I keep trying to sit down and spend some time catching up with everyone online, but somehow I just never seems to get that far. At least I’m back to organizing my to do list, and hopefully I will move past that very soon.
Anyway, I got [...]
Thanks to everyone who entered to win the copy of Nourishing Hope for Autism. Skipping over the one commentor who did not want to be entered in the drawing, there were 10 entries, and here is the result from Random.org:
So, the winner is [...]
Wow, my first to do list since we got back from vacation and started school! Frankly, the list of things to do has been so long that I have been avoiding it like the plague. Last night, I finally made some progress in crossing stuff off, [...]
Despite my desire to limit outside obligations and time commitments, I jumped at the chance to receive a review copy of Nourishing Hope for Autism: Nutrition Intervention for Healing Our Children by Julie Matthews.
Written for parents, this book provides both scientific explanations of [...]
Earlier this year, I participated in Callapidder Days’ Spring Reading Thing challenge and really enjoyed it. However, I wasn’t very successful in meeting my main goal, which was to finish the various non-fiction books I had started and left laying around the house. I just [...]
This week’s topic: Give Me Five of your favorite drinks.
This is definitely not a very healthy list, but it does say “favorites” and, after all, if you aren’t honest on your own blog, what’s the point? [...]
I have alluded to an incident that occurred at my son’s school, but haven’t gone into detail because I have been working on getting it resolved and have just not had the emotional energy to write about it. There have been several outbursts which could have been handled better by [...]
I have been a bit downhearted about some things lately, mostly related to the recurring delays on the part of the school to meet with me, including the most recent request to make our upcoming meeting 15 minutes long, since we are “just discussing the incident” that occurred.
I’m sorry, but [...]
Thanks to Super Mommy for introducing me to this fun meme created and hosted by BeccaGirl.
So, what’s “Give Me Five Monday”? Well, here’s BeccaGirl’s description:
The ‘Give Me Five’ Monday meme is designed to share [...]
I was so touched to be named as an inspiring blogger by Mia of General Hysteria, especially after being so hit and miss this summer. I am so hoping to get into a better [...]
What a great day! Michael was so excited about starting first grade, especially after we visited his classroom on Friday so he could meet the teacher and [...]
Only two more days until vacation, and my sinuses have been hurting me terribly the last few days. It’s frustrating because I have so many things I want to get done, but my body just wants to sleep.
I’m not sure how much chance I’ll get to [...]
I have been meeting a bunch of new bloggers lately, and one of them is a fun lady named Super Mommy. In addition to posting reviews and freebies, she has also started sharing about her two kids, one of whom has autism.
For the blog [...]
It was recently suggested to me that I make a lot of my decisions out of fear, so this quote from Norman Vincent Peale caught my eye when I saw it the other day:
Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in [...]
This is the first time I have participated in the Thankful Thursday meme. I tend to spend a lot of time worrying about what is going wrong or could go wrong and focus too much on everything I need to do to keep all the plates [...]
Since I became part of the autism community a few years ago, one of the things I was consistently alarmed to hear the parents of older children with autism talk about was the lack of services available once their children entered adulthood.
Well, I am excited [...]
Well, I only got three things done from last week’s wish list, but they were important ones. Unfortunately I got hit with schedule changes and extra appointments for various things that made it hard to get much done.
After having some sort of congestion/breathing difficulty while at [...]
This week for Try This Tuesday at 5 Minutes for Special Needs, I am sharing more about how our summer has been and some of the challenges we have faced with regard to Michael’s progress. I hope you’ll take a moment to [...]
Someone asked me the other day how to “follow” my blog, and I quickly realized they were referring to the Google Friend Connect widgets that are ubiquitous on Blogger blogs. My first instinct was to let them know this was a WordPress blog and suggest that [...]
I’m late posting this today because I was actually working on one of my items from last week’s list. Bob & I finally sat down and worked through our plans for our vacation to the Midwest later this month. We are primarily going there to see [...]
I met a new blogger this week. I mean, I met a blogger I haven’t known before now; she’s not really a “new” blogger. She actually popped over from the Mom Blog Network, which just goes to show you it was worth signing up with all the social media [...]
I did awesome this last week on my to do list, if I do say so myself! Of course, I sucked at blogging! I’m amazed I still have any readers, but I am thankful for every one of you.
This week I’m [...]
I have been totally horrible about blogging since I came back from my little break, I know. I just have not been able to find a schedule that works for me, partly because of our various summer activities and partly [...]
Lately I have been drawn more and more to blogs about how we can live our lives more simply and purposefully. I have been taking baby steps in that direction and am finding a lot of inspiration from sites like these.
Here [...]
You all are probably already tired of seeing pictures of our cats, but I wanted to show off the first purchase we made with money from selling stuff on Craigslist! (That’s Willow lying on top of the little cave, and Wallace [...]
