As a person who has always been not so good at multi-tasking, I have had to learn to become quite good at it! The important things in my mind always are: Taking care of our children and the family’s basic needs. Roger and I getting our work done. Us getting our schoolwork done when we’re [...]
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Trivial and important often reside together Leave a comment
The brick wall 4 comments
Getting Chris into the placement he needs (National Deaf Academy, which will meet his psychiatric, physical, deafness, and autism needs) has proven to be quite a challenge. Chris recently underwent a med change at our local hospital due to increased agitation and other situations. However, the next step necessary to complete this med change is [...]
8 years old – thoughts Leave a comment
Technorati Tags: children As Ryan (here eating fries when we briefly stopped at the park a few weeks ago) was climbing on my lap today, I started thinking about how soon that may be getting harder for him to do. He is a tall boy, still skinny, and can still fit upon my lap even [...]
Autism awareness personified – Leave a comment
Watching our children grow up in the world of autism and deafness, it has become harder for me to really be active in the community of autism, as it takes all our energy to just keep our children safe and well in the world. It is hard to see outside our own lives. I am [...]
Something to know if your loved one is placed in residency – Leave a comment
When you reach the difficult decision to place your son or daughter with a disability in a group home, it is good to know what services will actually be lost when they go in. Now, there is no problem most likely if the home provides good services while he or she is there, and keeps [...]
Change is hard Leave a comment
Upon a time of turmoil this Amy Grant song lifted me up through tears of grief yet tears of cleansing, and it is doing it again. Words by Brown Bannister, Chris Christian, Amy GrantFrom the album Never Alone I had laid some mighty plansThought I held them in my handsThen my world began to crumble [...]
Completely overwhelmed, but still soothed by nature’s glory Leave a comment
042 Originally uploaded by criscollrj I’ve noticed that nature greatly soothes me as well as prayer. And also just being with family and laughing. But things are crazy, and I just have never any time for blogging, etc. I often think lately that I’d just like to totally quit working so I can catch up [...]
Reference to autism on 90210 last night— Leave a comment
Something Ethan said on 90210 last night made me think. He was in the woods with a friend and just talking. He said this: Ethan: “People think I’m someone different than I am.” Friend, Liam: “Let me ask you something, why do you smile?” Ethan: “I smile because I don’t want to cause trouble for [...]
autismbites blog author’s letter to the President– Leave a comment
letter that dad of 6 autistic children wrote to the President.[ad#Google Adsense]
Thinking of how to share most with this blog– 1 comment
With having a new domain, I have been trying to think of the best way to reach out to others with this blog. I know I need to update my resource pages and do more research on what could help people most on ideas for autism spectrum and deafness. I think I may also type [...]
