Travel

Surviving a Long Trip and a Baker’s Dozen of Things We Learned

September 22, 2008

We’ve returned from our trip and everyone is in one piece. It went better than anticipated, but it was still exhausting. As often is the case, I think the successes during the trip can be attributed to J-Man being stronger than we give him credit for and a lot of planning and strategizing on our [...]

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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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Fun With Family

July 21, 2008

The J-man and I were at my parents’ house this weekend. You may not have heard my sigh of relief when I parked the car in the garage on Sunday evening. I’m sure it only echoed through three or four states. Besides the lack of sleep for both the J-man and me, there were the [...]

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Such a thing as too much attention…

July 20, 2008

Here’s what happens when an I-like-my-personal-space-and-my-normal-routine kid is doted upon by a thousand of our kin at a family reunion all weekend. (Note: I didn’t make the four-hour trip, particularly because I don’t think there was anywhere for me to sleep after the family invasion of her hometown. At least that sounded like a good [...]

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In which I say, “I am still on West Coast time”

May 21, 2008

Seriously, I am tired. I mean, tired tired. I’m having trouble keeping my eyes open, and I managed to hit snooze 5 times this morning and didn’t realize I was doing it. So here I sit in my pajamas, since I didn’t have time to shower before starting work. Um, ewwww. I have a lot [...]

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Going Home

May 19, 2008

As I’m writing this, Mary and I are sitting in the Seattle airport waiting for our red-eye flight to George Bush Houston-tinental Whatever Airport, where we’re be long enough to eat and pee and get on the plane to our real destination – home. Well, our REAL destination is wherever J-Man is. Her parents are [...]

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Being away

May 15, 2008

Greetings from 30,000 feet above the East Coast of the US! I don’t know whether there’s a Mile High Blogging Club, but let’s not go there. I’m on my way home from Boston and the wedding of my best friend – second only to the person I’m married to, of course. I was best man [...]

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