Posts tagged ‘autistic spectrum’
Follow Our Autism- Boston Butt MarathonI spent my day under a tent, behind a refrigerated 16-wheeler passing out boston butts. The kids’ school holds an annual boston butt sale fundraiser. Today we had a total of 400 butts that were 80% presold orders, and only a handful were left for “walk-ups”. The day started out with bagging the meat, (which had been [...]
- Portrait of a Special Needs ChildBetween my father the retired m.d., and John, I have been having little conversations about healthcare reform. One of the topics we’ve discussed is patient records. From my experience, everything is very fragmented. John’s argument was that many hospitals have gone to digital filing systems. I argue, however, as great as that is there still [...]
- The Decorator Has Spoken… “teal”Oh! Classic Mom-daughter dynamic! What did I say? That the phone would ring within 30 minutes of my posting about what to wear? Well, HA! Maybe it was about 10 minutes, and I heard the phone jingling in the other room…. “Mom and Dad Home”, read the cellphone face. Mom, with her decorator… and when her [...]
- PSA Video Interview- choosing a shirtI am going this afternoon to give a video testimonial for Olivia’s school. And, because “my mother raised me right” (that’s what she would say, or IS saying if she’s reading this right now, OR my phone will ring within 30 minutes of this posting and she WILL say, “you see, your mother raised you [...]
- Autism parents- I need insight on special olympics “young athletes”I discovered, through some googling clickity-click, click this link, ooh click that link, a Special Olympics “Young Athletes” group that is trying to form locally. From what I can tell, the Special Olympics has designated a new “group” or offshoot for young children who are not of qualifying age (8) for Special Olympics. The local gro […]
- She’s Watching and LAUGHING at ElmoOh! Do I love this kid! She is so sweet, and so beautiful, and we have a few hours alone this evening… I just popped in Elmo, and she’s been giggling and watching it. It’s fantastic! After a bath and some jabbering with Mama, she is full of expression… Ohh!!! They’re playing patty cake on Elmo, [...]
- United Way of the Coastal Empire – Out of the BoxHey! here’s Olivia and Mama on the United Way’s website. Hooray for Olivia. ha ha, some of the timeframe they quoted is “off”, and Olivia was dx with pdd-nos in 2006, then dx autistic in the summer of 2008… oh and I told the gal that “you need to think outside the box”… outSIDE of [...]
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