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December. *Sigh*

I love December.  I really, really do.  It’s finally cool weather here (sometimes).  We are getting a break from soccer (sometimes). We do less schoolwork (always).  Best of all, I get to prepare for my most favoritest holiday ever!
I LOVE love, love, love Christmas.  It’s always been my favorite, from way-back-when when I couldn’t sleep all Christmas Eve, both from the excitement and anticipation of what the next morning would bring, and from the upset stomach that my sister always seemed to have all night long on that particular night.  Every year.  (But that’s another story ; ).
Now that I’m all grown up (sometimes, ha!), I love Christmas even more.  I love the decorating, the cookie-making, the wrapped gifts, the nativity setting-up, the preparations.  Harry Connick Jr.’s Christmas singing voice just is really icing on the cake!
So (of course) it stands to reason that Firefly is an absolute wreck for the month of December–regularly, every December.  It’s finally cool weather here, and she does.not.like.to.be.cold.  Ever.

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The “Church Story”

One Sunday morning last year, I got up feeling adventurous. (My husband had been in an Infantry unit in Afghanistan since January, and our daughter was just diagnosed PDD-NOS/Autism Spectrum Disorder in February, after being born during my husband’s last deployment with a chromosome deletion and many medical issues, developmental delay, etc.)

I thought it seemed like as good a day as any to try to take her to church. We had brought her every Sunday from the time she was born, even through the toughest times of her congestive heart failure and feeding tube days, until one day about 18 months ago - she began screaming the moment we walked into the building. I tried for 20 minutes to calm her not understanding what the problem was, etc., thinking it was a mood rather than anything else and she would eventually be alright to sit for mass. …continue reading

The Well Child Visit goes very well

December 7, 2011 in Avoiders, Doctors, SPD, Victories with 3 Comments

Simon hates going to the doctor. Our first evaluation with a developmental pediatrician and psychologist were going fine, my 3 1/2 year old easily letting us parents out of the room for fun skills tests,

All because of a story….

October 21, 2011 in Anxiety, Review, School, SPD, SPD Awareness, Victories with 3 Comments

With the new school year starting for my daughter, I knew I wanted to be prepared. I wanted her teacher(s) prepared and I wanted her classmates prepared. So I searched high and low for all

The Kiss that Blew Me Away

October 10, 2011 in Anxiety, Autism, Inspiration, SPD, Victories with 9 Comments

He looked at me as his bus pulled away this morning, and before I even got to do it, he blew me a kiss.  And I started crying. I cried because with that kiss, eight years of  heartbreak and

Rough Patch

September 24, 2011 in Behavior, Parenting, SPD, Therapy, Victories with 10 Comments

Sometimes being a mom to a SN needs kid makes me feel like an utter and complete failure. T is in one of many regressions in his SPD and it reminds me that I am

How do you thank someone who has given you and your child everything?

September 12, 2011 in Parenting, SPD, Therapy, Victories with 4 Comments

How do you thank someone who has given you and your child everything? This is what I thought as I drove to my son’s very last session with his Physical Therapist. (He will be transitioning

I’ll Take Today

August 25, 2011 in Autism, Inspiration, Parenting, SPD, Summer, Victories with 9 Comments

Last Saturday was the first in a long time that we awoke without a plan.  After a busy summer I was happy to embrace it!  Pondering our options, I must admit that a ‘pajama Saturday’

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