J does not like his hair cut. The noise and touch around his ears, eyes and neck drive him batty. So, I do it myself instead of trying to subject someone else to the torture. And it has to be done with scissors, clippers are out of the question. He won’t even be in the […]
autism
One of his classmates is jealous of J?!
A few weeks ago, while on Winter Break, we ran into one of J’s classmates at the library. The inevitable “what are you checking out?” conversation ensued. We are currently working our way through the library’s selection from the Henry and Mudge series by Cynthia Rylant and illustrated by Suçie Stevenson (short chapter books with lots of pictures, […]
Mellow Christmas
Santa brought a bit more than expected last night. At 10:47 p.m. J woke up crying with a fever. Boo! Gave him a few ibuprofen and he went right back to sleep. Then at 4a.m. he woke up again and spent an hour chatting about Mario. Luckily, the fever seemed to have subsided. He finally […]
Are you prepared?
In early July of this year I saw the first report pop up the Facebook feed of one of the local news sources I “like” – 11 year old Autistic Menifee boy is missing! I immediately gathered as much information as I could before sharing (because I like to check the accuracy of things before posting). […]
Happy Halloween is Over!
Did you miss me? I knew October was going to get crazy and something was going to have to go. And the winner (or was it loser?) was this blog. I had a bunch of ideas throughout the month, but there never seemed to be time to sit down and write. Besides my usual keeping up with the […]
Give me boring routine any day.
This week has exhausted me. It wasn’t that we did anything overly taxing or that J kept us up more than usual. I finally came to the realization that it is because we have been completely thrown off our routine since Saturday. Instead of going to our normal local church we piled in the car […]
My son is a genius! No, not really.
That is the Sunday New York Times Crossword Puzzle IN PEN!!! Ha ha, if you look closely you can see he was just writing words and numbers in the squares. Actually, he really did amaze us with his memory and reading ability today. You’d think not much would surprise us at […]
Why do I have to go Mama Bear to get things done?
NO! No no no no no no no! I don’t want to!!! Waaah! You can’t make me! I said Noooooooooooooooooooo! Ok, deep breath in aaaaaand out. One. Two. Three. Four. Happy place, happy place. Do you know one of those people that like to argue? The ones that thrive on a nice healthy debate. The […]
First day as Computer Mom at school
I have been joking about the technical issues I have had at home lately and to add to the mix I have volunteered to help my son’s class during their computer time. I had no idea what I was getting into but I noticed none of the other moms volunteered to help out. That made […]
Is there something wrong with me?
Back in May we attended a Kindergarten Here I Come informational meeting at the elementary school. The principal spelled out exactly what was going to happen the first day. The kids will line up, the teacher will take them straight in and shut the door, then he would be there for the parents with a box of tissues […]
