2010

Operation Orange – Time is Running Out

November 9, 2010

We’re in the last 36 hours of Operation Orange, my fundraising drive to raise money for Camp G.R.A.C.E., a local YMCA camp for autistic youth in my town. Thank you to everyone who has donated so far! I’m throwing in a giveaway now, too! I’ll put the name of everyone who donates $15 or more [...]

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Operation Orange Fund Drive – Send Autistic Children to Camp, Freak Out My Hair

November 2, 2010

11/13/10 – Update! The members of Team Camp GRACE together raised $32,000!! Thank you so much to everyone who donated! 2011 will be an awesome year for these amazing kids! This is the first time I’ve done this on our blog, but I want to do something, shall we say, ‘colorful’ to help autistic children [...]

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The Great Pumpkin Story

October 25, 2010

Today the J-Man went back for his first day of school after the 3 1/2 week fall break, which incidentally is why we’ve posted so little lately. Two kids running amok, some travel, being buried in work, a round of a stomach bug, and the normal life chaos will do that to you. When he [...]

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Autism Beatitudes

October 11, 2010

I was skimming back through some writing I’d done a while back and stumbled across the following. Funny how you can forget you wrote something! I rather liked it and hope you do too. As with other things I’ve written, I wish to qualify this by saying that I’m aware I write from a parent [...]

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Today I Was Strong Enough

October 9, 2010

Today I ran in our local 5K Autism Run, which for me was a celebration of the J-Man and Dale Jr., being a dad, and the journey it’s taken me on, but also of a newer me who is getting fitter and feeling stronger a little bit at a time. About 2 1/2 months ago [...]

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Turn it on!

September 25, 2010

In the past few days, the J-man has learned to turn on (and off) lights and a fan. I’m fine with the lights flashing, but the fan is a little scary, so we leave it unplugged when he’s going to be in the room. It really seems to be an “all of a sudden” insight [...]

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In Remembrance of My Hero

September 23, 2010

As long-time readers may remember, my grandmother passed away this year on Valentine’s Day after a long fight against ovarian cancer. The loss we’ve felt as a family is nearly impossible to describe. Not a day goes by that I don’t think about her. I miss her so much I can hardly type this. Today [...]

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Dreams of One True Autism Resource and Getting Beyond Oral History

September 17, 2010

Last night we had our more-or-less-once-a-month family night at school, which basically means many of the parents from the three levels of autism classes (Pre-K, K-2nd, 3rd-5th) get together at school either with the teachers or with outside experts from the community and discuss a particular issue that we’re all struggling with. Not surprisingly, the [...]

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