Arriving home, from school or just a day out with the kids, is always a taxing time: there is hunger, tiredness and the sensory overload of having been out to deal with (both in them and in me). Yesterday, the second we walked in the door, both kids started simultaneously: "I want something to drink!""I [...]
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Beautiful Summer Day
After, five hours of cleaning on Wednesday, I decided yesterday that it was time to leave the dishes and the laundry, and head out of the house. So, we set off for the library to gaze at their fish tank full of "Nemo fish" and "Dory fish" and get some new books. When my daughter [...]
Summer Vacation
I've spent the past five hours today cleaning the house while my kids ran around in various states of undress, watched TV, and played together (punctuated, of course, by the two of them hitting one another whenever they got bored or frustrated). Among the things I had to clean up, in addition to the usual [...]
There’s Enough of Me to Go Around
Oh, my! See what happens when you get a blog full of the addicts, the codependents, the odd and the isolated? Everyone ends up tangled in huge, hilarious mock fisticuffs in the comments over my blogging love and affection. You all have me smiling and laughing every time I check my comments these days. To [...]
Mama Does Not Play Well With Others
My son has a friend, Alex, whose mom is what I think of as the generic ideal of the autism mom: she goes to advocacy meetings, she knows all the special education laws, she's up on the latest therapies, she volunteers to help in the classroom and she's always neatly dressed and smiling. Then my [...]
The Gift
My son does not like change; change is scary and change is bad. He doesn't like entering the house through the back door instead of the front, even when he's in the back. He doesn't like going out without checking the mail. He doesn't like eating from a new bowl or drinking from a new [...]
