Happy -OH- MY- GOODNESS-Christmas-is-next-week DAY! As you know, we are going to have our virtual dinner next Friday afternoon–but if you can’t make it, we’ll save you some leftovers in the fridge! Personally, I love to decorate for Christmas. And I love to see how other people decorate for Christmas. I love to drive around…
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Maybe it’s Just Me
Maybe it’s just me, but I think sensory toys look a little too much like adult entertainment toys. If you know what I mean. And sometimes, your kid might find the spot where those things are hidden, a spot in the house you never dreamed he’d find, and play with the adult toys. Because they…
Let’s Cure CP
I’m excited to write this post about a Non-Profit I’m on the board of. The organization is called Let’s Cure CP and we are focused on funding research related to curing Cerebral Palsy. There is no cure for CP today and there is little research being done to look for a cure because there are…
Future Rock Balancer?
A couple weeks ago, Peanut wanted to go outside to play. She had been recovering from a cold so her outdoor play had been limited, but the weather was nice that day and she was doing better so I bundled her up and sent her into the backyard. I asked Diva to go with her…
Report Card
For some students the words “report card” are stress inducing. I only remember being worried about my report card three times in my life: sixth grade (I was worried that I wouldn’t make the cut for middle school), the year in high school that I took geometry (my lowest grade ever), and my first semester in…
The Case for a Continuum
I attended my son’s IEP meeting this morning. Usually I leave emotionally exhausted after listening to all of the things he can’t do and all of the progress he hasn’t made. Today’s meeting was different. In January of this year, he began attending an ABA based school, designed for kids on the autism spectrum. His neighborhood school…
Open W I D E
Dental issues. These are among the many challenges that parents of special needs children and adults deal with every day. Dentist visits and tooth brushing can be especially challenging for those with an oral aversion or cognitive impairment and behavior issues. Here are my experiences.
I Hope We Can Stop EEGs Sometime Soon
Today we’re checking into Children’s Hospital for J’s biannual EEG. We’ve been anticipating this for…well, for about 6 months, since his last EEG so we can get a better grasp of what’s going on for him. His last EEG, July 21, 2010 showed him still having 50% of his REM in spike and wave activity,…
4 Reasons to ask for help, even though it’s a pain in the neck
Okay, I’ve got high needs kids. But I’ve got my own problems too, and I’m really good at ignoring them. Which becomes impossible every once in a while, especially if I’ve been ignoring the scoliosis and arthritis in my back. Recently I messed up my neck and back (again) and went in for a massage…
It doesn’t matter if she can see or not…
Yes, it’s true. There was an optometrist who examined Olivia when she was 4 months old b/c she wasn’t tracking with her eyes and thought he was the shiz-nit and new everything about everything and told me that…and I quote…”It won’t matter if Olivia can see or not because she will be so profoundly retarded…