Sleep

Worry

January 2, 2009

Here’s what I’ve been doing lately… worrying. I worry a lot, about things big and small. Don’t tell me not to sweat the small stuff – that just makes me worry that I’m doing something I shouldn’t. I worry about the J-man, and how people will respond to him. His stimming has increased dramatically without [...]

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Getting Off My Own Routine

December 9, 2008

Last night I spent a couple of hours at our neighborhood’s more-or-less-annual HOA meeting. Because this public forum for complaining about things in the neighborhood only comes once a year, that’s a lot of griping and moaning to cram into two hours. Surprisingly, there seemed to be quite a bit less of that this year [...]

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Travel Hangover…

December 1, 2008

And tonight we get a reminder of why it’s often not the travel that gets you, it’s how the disruption in routine completely ruins sleep patterns for days after you get home. 6:30PM – J-Man is face down on the couch, so Mary brings him up a half-hour early for bath time. 7:00 – After [...]

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As If We Forgot That We Don’t Travel Well

November 29, 2008

We’re back from our two-day trip to see family for Thanksgiving, and as usual, we’re all having our post-travel hangover. None of us travel well. Even the things in our house that don’t travel – our two cats – don’t do well when we travel. They generally get mad and pee on something while we’re [...]

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Oh Croup!

November 10, 2008

[Ed. note - Today was so incredibly awesome that we both felt the need to write posts about it independently...] For about a month now, the J-man has had an off-and-on cough. It would go away for a bit, then come back, usually with no real other symptoms. Sunday night though, that cough wouldn’t stop. [...]

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Everything I Know About Traveling With An Autistic Toddler

September 17, 2008

            [This space intentionally left blank.]           (Just kidding…. sort of…) We’re going out of town for my grandmother’s 90th (!!!!!) birthday this weekend. She is – to put it mildly – a force of nature and such an important part of my life that I [...]

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When School Meets He-Who-Would-Not-Nap

September 5, 2008

The past three days have been a whirlwind. Yes he’s gone at school most of the day and supposedly that’s some sort of ‘free time’ people imagine I have now, but we’ve used that time to try to dig out of the bottomless pit of chaos that our lives had become through neglect while we [...]

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Not all That Wordless Wednesday II – After-School Special

September 3, 2008

Phew! He did well today. Here’s the really brief report. Me = cute; teachers = know it; Daddy carrying all my crap into the school = pack mule; going to my classroom without Mommy and Daddy = enough crying to make said Mommy and Daddy feel guilty; Mommy and Daddy = now what?; transitions = [...]

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