We’ve visited the same pumpkin patch for years now. Petting zoo, bouncers, slides, games, swings, reverse bungee, you name it. We’re a few days behind this year — crap week continues — and we expected the crowds that were indeed there. What we didn’t expect was that half the rides weren’t operating, the petting zoo [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 27, 2008
Enlightenment
It’s been one of those weeks — actually, a ten-day span of one crappy incident on top of another, interspersed with fun things and relaxing moments…followed by another crappy incident. Today, it was going outside to pick up ds from school to find that something (someone?) had 100% shattered my driver’s door window, rendering it [...]
October 17, 2008
Cuddle Him Up and Protect Him Forever
Do you ever want to do that with your child? Ever want to hide him away from all the problems and sit and watch movies and eat popcorn forever in your own quiet, safe home…on an island somewhere?
So that’s extreme…a little.
My son’s mood swings this week have been up and down. Up and down. Up. [...]
October 14, 2008
Autism Goes to the Dentist
For those of you who have autistic kids, you know Autism. You know how it goes with you wherever you are, usually even when your children aren’t with you. It’s an entity, with its own personality, requirements, and mood. Autism is sometimes hiding under the rug, other times it’s right there and can’t be slightly [...]
October 13, 2008
Autism Changes? Beyond the Obvious
When your child’s given an autism diagnosis, there is most definitely a change in your life. There has to be, or, well, nothing changes. But what about changes beyond the ones that you think about firsthand? Beyond the way you discipline your child, what you may expect of him, and what you make him do, [...]
October 12, 2008
Bam! I’m a wrestler!
And it was going so well…
Once upon a time, it was a quiet afternoon. Dh was at Costco, and my daughters were reading, napping, just hanging out in their room. Older ds was at his friend’s house.
Then…
BAM.
High-pitched screaming. Banging. Yelling. More banging.
Peace. Tranquility. Quiet. Gone.
Ds quickly made his way downstairs and it escalated. He went [...]
October 11, 2008
100th Blog Entry!
When I started this blog back in November 2007, I had no idea how it would work out. Would I blog enough? Would anyone read it? Would I get discouraged and quit? Would my honesty and forthrightness (or my bluntness, if I’m being completely honest) turn people off? Would there be enough to write about?
As [...]
October 8, 2008
Halloween at Disneyland, and Costume Fiascos
Where to start?
Last Friday, we took ds and dd to Disneyland. We’d postponed it twice over the two weeks prior, due to one of us being sick, and even though I still had a cold, we couldn’t postpone again. After all, Jack Skellington is at Haunted Mansion!!!
Anyway, I think everyone who had a pass but [...]
October 1, 2008
Taking Off the Blinders
Wow, has it hit the fan this week! I can’t think of a more politically correct way to say it that wouldn’t make me censor my own blog. Jenny McCarthy’s hitting a nerve, and as we all know, words are like peroxide — you can pour it all over your body, but it will only [...]
