Sunday morning it was agitation city around here. We went on a ride for bagels after which (the bagels having been eaten) Charlie kept saying... Read more →
February 2010
At the risk of sounding really really boring...... Too many days off from school increases anxiety in Charlie (and his parents), due to his sense... Read more →
I dictated "s-n-o-w d-a-y" to Charlie and the result is above, with the B-ish squiggle Charlie's rendition of "S"; "w" a bit smooshed; "y" minus... Read more →
Charlie's, and my and (I think) Jim's, schools had a snow day yesterday. I know, big surprise, it's not like there haven't been any snow,... Read more →
Wednesday. 3 walks, which I for one enjoyed a lot more as, while the ground was plenty soggy, it wasn't raining as it was on... Read more →
Charlie likes his routines. Or rather, Charlie needs his order, to the point of demanding that things always be the same way. In the past... Read more →
Variations of the above scene---Charlie in fine run/walk form round our neighborhood---occurred morning (6am), afternoon (3.30pm), and night (8pm) on Monday, with Jim bringing up... Read more →
I suppose it's no surprise that we went to the beach on Sunday, as we've been going down there most weekends this winter. Perhaps in... Read more →
Write about vaccines, get lotsa comments; a few accusations that I'm somehow, albeit secretly (so secretly that I don't even know about it myself) employed... Read more →
In the car going home from school Friday afternoon, Charlie was talking about the subjects he regularly returns to (as in, when he talks, these... Read more →
Year of birth: 1990. I was checking the passports of the students who are going to Greece with me yesterday and did a little double... Read more →
"I want blue." "Yellow." "White! White." "Mom black." Charlie naming the colors, with a reference to my hair color perhaps? Rather, Charlie's latest way with... Read more →
It's here! Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum, edited by Kyra Anderson and Vicki Forman, just published by Woodbine... Read more →
This post is going to be a jumble-potpourri-mishmash of things (sort of like this doughnut burger, hence the title) because too many things are on... Read more →
Sunday being the middle day of a three-day weekend due to President's Day for Charlie (following a week minus two days due to Mother Nature... Read more →
A good portion of our walks yesterday could more accurately have been titled dashes through the snow. There just seemed to be an endless store... Read more →
I picked up a happy Charlie from the Big Autism Center this afternoon and, as we drove home through residential streets and on the highway,... Read more →
I'm pleased to report that we made it through an unexpected Snow Day 2 with only: a 4.55am wake-up 1 instance of dishes-throwing, coupled with... Read more →
This is our deck as mentioned in the previous post, and that sort of slender oval shaped object is the kayak, after some 15 inches... Read more →
I went to an IEP meeting for Charlie yesterday. We just had an IEP meeting just under two months ago so there wasn't much to... Read more →