Wow! I had high hopes, but Whirlwind it's official! He has been accepted into all three schools he applied to. Academically he was sixth in his class at the beginning of the year, (I'm not quite sure where he stands right now), but one of the schools he applied to only has about a 53% [...]
One of the things we like to do is take time with each child to do something special. This last weekend DH (DearHusband) and I had to go to a formal work event. For Friday Family Time (yes, we kind of consider it a proper noun), we sat down as a whole family to watch [...]
January was a busy month for us. I worked extensively with Whirlwind as he finished and revised the last of his college application essays. It was exhausting at times. Truly exhausting-mentally and physically. At the same time I feel truly blessed. Whirlwind is functioning enough I believe he will be able to go to college [...]
Photo credit: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-mathematics-of-juggling-20170524/ I didn't realize how dependent I am on my planner until I was without the first two+ weeks of the year. The one I ordered finally came yesterday after a shipping snafu. I had a small paper January calendar where I could keep track of big things like appointments, but the daily [...]
I give up. I give up on perfection. Real life is hard. Real life leaves you with five minutes here and there to tackle things you want to do. Real life leaves little room for perfection. I give up on long blog posts and schedules for the moment. We're here, we're still kicking and moving [...]
Just when you think you're gaining traction, you find out it's 95% likely that you'll move. To another state. Into a smaller home. And school is starting soon. I still have plenty of posts planned for the future. And if I can manage it, I'll continue my putting up Throwback Thursday posts for new content [...]
For a while now I've been contemplating making something that would possibly make my life a little easier. I've had enough meltdowns on outings with my ASD kids to know I wanted to do something to indicate we are an Autism family. I also wanted it to be an item I could keep in [...]
Firstborn graduated last year. He was accepted into a four of the five schools he applied to--all in different states. He really wanted to go to one of two schools in particular and he made it his goal to get in. Once he was accepted and made his decision, we started preparing for his freshman [...]
8/16/10 Wow. Been a while since I posted. I had a pretty hard year. A few months after my ectopic pregnancy I got pregnant again and was pretty excited. I was pretty sick, which I took to be good sign--baby must be growing right--right? I was dealing with thyroid issues and went to an endocrinologist [...]
Our Boy Scout Troop recently returned from their annual weeklong campout. Things did not go well. Some background: A couple of years ago Lawboy and a friend's son who also has autism (we'll call him Goodfriend) went to the backwoods program offered by our council. They get along well and balance each other out. Knowing [...]
