Preschool

Trying to Get Perspective

November 29, 2009

These past weeks have been a serious reality check for us. All of us have been sick, hurt, or both at one point or another. Not surprisingly, this has weakened both our physical and emotional defenses. That’s a nice way of saying that we’ve turned into a bunch of grumpy, rundown, sick people who aren’t [...]

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In Dreams Asleep

November 17, 2009

I wrote in “In Dreams Awake” about a dream I had that came true not long ago. Now I wish to write about another dream I had a few weeks back. It’s rare for me to remember dreams at all, and nearly unheard of for me to remember them in this much detail. So here [...]

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All the Good Things

October 2, 2009

My health has just been for crap lately, so crawling out from under my self-pity and general groaning – which I’m not good at in general – has required some serious conscious effort on my part. Thankfully, the J-Man has his ways of snapping me out of it with yet more astonishing new things he’s [...]

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Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?

September 29, 2009

For a long time, I’ve been excited about trying hippotherapy with the J-Man, particularly since the horse farm field trip that originally got my hopes up was canceled due to weather last spring. After many months of waiting, our class was going again! Just our luck, it rained the morning of our field trip, which [...]

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Blast Off!

September 23, 2009

During the last 2 weeks, the J-man has shifted into high gear. Suddenly, he can do some of the movements to the morning song at school. They’ve been singing this SAME SONG since, well, forever, and something just clicked. Now he is starting to follow along some of the movements with a slight physical cue [...]

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Even More Annual Celebrations – One-Year School Anniversary!

September 3, 2009

Today marks the first anniversary of the J-Man starting school. His first year in the Pre-K autism class at the nearby elementary school has been better than we even dreamed possible. We are thankful beyond words for all that his teachers and therapists have done with and for him, for their amazing skills and creativity, [...]

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It Takes a School Village to Make a Great IEP

August 27, 2009

After all the stress, frustration, and general drama around last year’s IEP process (our first), this year’s was the complete polar opposite. It is beyond description to have a team of caring, creative, smart teachers and therapists who have the best interests of your child at heart working with you. I’m not saying last year’s [...]

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Be Our Vest, Be Our Vest! We Love Our Weighted Vests!

July 6, 2009

[Personal note: I know I haven't blogged in eons. The chaos of work, the J-Man going on break from school, the serious need to work on some of his behavioral issues, illnesses, and the overall bedlam of baby-parenting have been exhausting. Just wanted to let people know we haven't died or something!] The adjustment to [...]

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