3 situations that had me chuckling to myself this week: I ran into the Roc’s special ed teacher as I was leaving the school after volunteering in the Roc’s classroom on Tuesday. We walked down the hall together and she said to me, “You’re house must really smell…” and felt my eyes widen as I [...]
Archive for December, 2011
3 Holiday Laughs
Posted in Holidays, tagged Christmas, communication, development, funny things kids say, holidays on December 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
A Friend for Life
Posted in Life Stuff, tagged autism mamas, friendship on December 22, 2011 | 7 Comments »
***I started this post on December 6 th, right after I opened this:*** Then life got in my way. So here you go, the story of that box and one of my favorite people in the world: I have wanted to write about my best friend Christa for a long time. But how do you [...]
Breakfast of Champions
Posted in Life Stuff on December 15, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Everyday I cringe as I pack the Roc’s lunch. He won’t eat a sandwich of any kind, not meat, not cheese, no nut spreads, not even nutella! I tried leftovers in thermos containers, but those came back untouched. So I send him in with yogurt, cheese, juice, fruit, cereal, and a cookie. Every day. And [...]
Basketball
Posted in Life Stuff, tagged autism, basketball, development, gross motor, parenting on December 6, 2011 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been a little nervous lately, actually I’ve been nervous ever since I clicked submit on the online registration for the local community education basketball program a few weeks ago. Whenever I think of what’s to come, my stomach gets cold and tight. Did I make a mistake? Is he going to flip out? Is [...]
Good News Call
Posted in Life Stuff, tagged 1st grade, autism, elementary school, parenting, special education on December 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
So often we hear the negative about our kids. We hear about all they cannot do after their evaluations, how far behind they are at conferences, what they have to work on during IEP meetings. It’s hard to hear these things, to read the reports full of these details, to craft the goals we hope [...]
