Everyone is dressed and ready to take Tommy to church except for Amy. Amy is casually sitting in her tiny rocker as though it were a throne. “I’m not getting dressed until I finish my pickle and I have a little mouth, so it takes me a looong time to eat a pickle.” I predict […]
For Tommy, puberty meant applying deoderant frequently. He carries his aerosol in his pocket and leaves a trail of either the scent from the can or the scent of too long without the can everywhere he goes. For Sarah, being told that this summer she shouldn’t wear a light colored, unlined swimsuit resulted in her […]
Tonight, Noah and I played double solitaire. He started off letting me show him exactly how to play. “Can I put this card here?” He beat me. We played a second game and I didn’t help him. “Mom, you can play your three of diamonds.” I played my card and he played three more on […]
The children are unusually short-tempered and cranky today. I need to think of something to get everyone away from the thick cloud of funk that hangs overhead, oozing down over us day and night. How did Milo get out of the doldrums?
Sarah’s friend has been staying with us this week while her parents are traveling. After watching us change Evan’s diaper while singing to keep him entertained, she thought of the perfect song to sing to him. It is such a good idea for the way he behaves lately that we have declared this Evan’s theme […]
I thought I disliked Evan channeling Al Bundy with his hand perpetually inside his diaper until he learned to remove the weapon from its’ protective outer packaging.
Mercury in Dental Fillings Safe for School-Age Children Doug and I facilitate a support group for family and friends of people with Aspergers. Sometimes, the meetings are wonderful. Other times, I just feel like getting up and walking out. Those are the meetings where I sit silently and bite my tongue. They are the meetings […]
I am heading out for some mid-week oral surgery and I will be too cranky to post for several hours. Talk amongst yourselves. The topic is – “visiting the zoo”. How old were your children on their first visit? When did they decide they were too old to visit it? Do you go there without […]
No. I didn’t sit in Victoria’s Secret and nurse Evan while we were in the mall. Doug tried to get me in my militant breastfeeder mood, but I just wasn’t in the mood to be deliberately confrontational in a store that wants to pretend breasts are only for decoration and recreation.
The speaker on sarah’s cell phone has been broken for several months, meaning she could hear the other caller, but they couldn’t hear her. Last week she explained how she communicates when she isn’t text messenging friends. “They ask me yes or no questions and I push a key once for yes and twice for […]