So. How ya been? Hmmm… La-dee-da-dee-dum… Well, this is kinda awkward, huh? What with you expecting to come here and find a brilliant, witty post and me still having one horrendous case of writer’s block and all. Seen any good movies lately? No? Me neither. Well, huh. This isn’t gettin’ any better as I type…
Monthly Archives: April 2009
25 random things about being the mother of a child with autism
1) My husband and I planned on having our first child after two years of marriage. Matthew beat us by 2 months. 2) I took Matthew on a job interview when he was eight weeks old because I couldn’t bear to leave him with a babysitter. 3) The first person that told me that Matthew,…
A social balancing act.
Yesterday, I went to Sydney, over three hours from home to meet some of my favourite Australian bloggers. It was the first time I had ever done something like it. There were five Mums and lots of kids (mine made up the lagest…portion). It was great. Everyone had a wonderful time, including Ivy, who is…
Hunger Bites
Just in the last two days, I have seen three news reports about people getting arrested for shoplifting food. I have to believe it is because the economic crisis has impacted so many families and left them desperate. But in an effort to help, my youngest daughter, Ashley, is trying to make a difference. Ashley…
A Date With My Son
Over our Spring Break (which was last week), I had an opportunity to go see a concert with Yanni and his Voices. I took the opportunity to ask Spiff if he’d like to go. We try to introduce normal teen activities into his schedule, and a concert is definitely a teen activity. Granted, Yanni isn’t…
Special Exposure Wednesday
Big Boy Mal turns eleven on a quiet Monday at lunch. Got something to share? Join us at Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three Ring Circus
Blind Photographers
Think you can’t take good photos? Stop your whining…you have absolutely no excuse. Blind Photographers is a blog and photo archive of work by…yes…photographers who have visual challenges, including complete blindness. The BlindSighted Project allows members of Blind Photographers to explore challenges related to our eyesight, challenges that affect our image-making process. This project is…
Try This Tuesday #40: Supplemental Therapies
Welcome to this week’s Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Supplemental Therapies. I’m not sure if that’s the right word for it, but I’m thinking about…
A different kind of milestone
This is Max at two years old. He’d just started lifting himself up onto all fours; before that, he commando crawled for months. My husband and I were thrilled that he was finally doing something that “typical” tots did. Back then, we were so excited anytime he did anything that was in the baby…
Fine Line between Research and Parenting
Not only does my beautiful little girl have an incredibly rare and fatal disease of which only a few hundred children have, but we recently found out that her DNA mutation combination (the combination of my bad Gaucher gene and my husband’s bad Gaucher gene) is something that has never been seen before and cannot…