About
Tim is a freelance writer and designer who works for Myself, a business that has been thumbing its nose at The Man for six years now. He’s both a stay-at-home (sounds better than ‘kept man’) and a work-at-home-and-anywhere-else-I-can-get-away-with-it dad.
He does not care for pina coladas, and is ambivalent about getting caught in the rain. Tim is a proud, self-professed geek. He feels better about his expanding midsection by expressing it in terms of pi. Tim was recently crowned Most Valuable Drinker by the Coffee Growers of the World.
Mary has some long, incomprehensible job title and has worked for The-Company-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named (TCTSNBN) for the past 12 years. She started a new job at TCTSNBN a while back that reportedly has achieved the metric of sucking 100% less than her former position.
Mary is affectionately known in our house as “Mary-pedia” for her vast knowledge of random trivia, particularly in pioneer-era practices and all things rural. She can churn butter with a paper clip. She has read out three branches of the local library system. Monitor glow makes her even sexier.
The J-Man (aka Mister Man, Cutest Boy Ever, Little Buddy, Monkey Man, Mini-Us, the J-Train, Jo Jo, and The Center of the Known Universe) is our four-year-old, autistic son. He’s working through the challenges of autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, ‘oral defensiveness’ (aka I Hate Things Near or In My Mouth, or Feeding-Fu), severe speech delays and apraxia, motor planning issues, some likely auditory sensitivities, and the rest of the stuff that comes with being a pre-kindergartener. He attends a self-contained, full-day, Pre-K, autism class at a nearby elementary school.
In the face of these challenges, he brightens every room he walks into and bravely faces every barrier put in front of him. His favorite direction is up, which fills us with hope.
Dale Jr. (aka Little E, Not-So-Little-Anymore E, E.normous, Big E, Buddy Bud, Giant Baby, and Wild Man) is our several-month-old son, who still has a bit of that new baby smell. His favorite things are: Mama’s boobs, Mama, nursing, the J-Man, his thumb, pooping at inopportune moments, and Daddy. You can speculate about the order. He spends his days alternating between smiling and laughing, desperately wanting to eat or drink whatever you are, and crawling ever so slowly and deliberately toward the most dangerous objects in the house. And most of all, he makes our hearts sing.
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Just read about your expierence with Therapeutic Listening, my son is 2 1/2 and will be 3 in June and has just started working with Therapeutic Listening we have now been using it at home for 15 min for the past two days.
He was the same way about anything on his head or near his ears but will wear the headphones until his buzzer/timer goes off. Would love to hear more about you and your family and maybe we could follow each other through the process!