This is the stuff that no one really understands. The day to day. The grind. The SCREAMING (from him, though sometimes I’m ashamed to admit, I scream too). The daily fights about food. The wheeling and dealing to accomplish just about anything. The screaming when the bus comes earlier than expected, or it’s raining, or [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Patience
Posted in Autism, Kindergarten, Mommy stuff on August 28, 2009 | 7 Comments »
The first day of Kindergarten
Posted in Autism, Kindergarten on August 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
The Roc was bouncing off the walls with anxiety and excitement this morning before we headed down to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. We put his personal schedule together and he couldn’t get through the steps to get out the door fast enough! He kept repeating what he saw in the [...]
Summer’s coming to an end
Posted in Autism, Fun Stuff, Kindergarten, Swimming on August 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Kindergarten starts tomorrow (yikes!) and we’ve spent the last few days of summer escaping the heat and humidity at the community pool. The Roc is becoming quite the little fish! He just started to go under water for me and jump off the side of the pool. He can swim all the way across the [...]
Rest + Raspberries + Return
Posted in Autism, Fun Stuff, Travel on August 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
We were still wiped out from our long Thursday hike on Friday so we took it easy during the day. GC and I took turns going out to lunch. I went out with Aunt Sandy while he stayed back playing with the Roc, and then he met Marcello for lunch while I stayed back at [...]
Red Rocks + RMNP II
Posted in Autism, Fun Stuff, Travel on August 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
On Wednesday Aunt Sandy and Uncle Allen took us to Red Rocks in the morning. It was just like I’ve seen in pictures but hotter up there than I imagined. That Colorado sun is intense! Very neat to go inside and see the wall listing the different artists who’ve played there through the years. The [...]
Rocky Mountain National Park
Posted in Autism, Fun Stuff, Travel on August 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
After our little foray into Breckenridge on Monday we were itching to go back into the mountains, so on Tuesday we took the Roc to Rocky Mountain National Park. Very beautiful drive north of Denver, through Boulder, and then into the mountains. We were unexpectedly stopped by some road construction before Estes Park so I [...]
Colorado + a Birthday
Posted in Autism, Travel on August 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We returned from a 9 day vacation in Colorado late last night. So here’s the first in a series of posts about our trip!
We arrived in CO on Saturday, August 1st after an uneventful flight but nerve wrecking check in. The flight was overbooked and we didn’t have seats (even though I PAID for the [...]
