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Sometimes Safeguards Fail
This is my front door. There are 3 locks. To blog when you are frustrated, when you feel like you have been pushed beyond what you can take is never a good idea and yet, here we are. Today has been a craptastic… -
SNOW DAY
Last night, the kids all waited with bated breath, watching the news for school closings. Each time they rolled around and their schools weren't listed increased the anticipation, the danger of possibly not being on th… -
IT WAS THE WORST STORY TIME EVER
For the first time since I took all 3 of my Lovely Little Children of the Corn to story time, tried to check out books with both Alex and Goofy in tow, and ran into the Chameleon, I left the library something other th… -
Focused on the Prize
You know those days? The ones that make you crazy? The ones where you don't even know what to think? The times where every thing that can go wrong does go wrong until you get to the point that you are so frustrated, so… -
Lost Your Muchness?
Beth: "Muchness is knowing that whatever life throws at you, will survive. It's being able to pick up the shattered pieces of your soul and put them back together, stronger than you ever thought possible." -
Those Scariest of Possibilities
There's one report card that never fails to bring me to my knees. You can know all you want but when it's in front of you, when the tangible proof is in your hand, you have to admit it. I said before... -
Are You Autism Aware?
No. Think about it before you answer. Are you autism aware? You know that 1/88 children are diagnosed with autism. You know that there is no known cure for autism. You know that autism cannot be outgrown. You know that… -
Bragging About Their Boy
So, there I was on facebook, are you surprised my story is starting like that? Me too! but I was. and I was following a conversation requesting "ruckus", and yes, ruckus was delivered. Crazy people. so, following the… -
Surviving the IEP with your Sanity Intact
Alex's IEP meeting is in about a month. That means I'm paying more attention to the posts bloggers are writing concerning their feelings/fears/experiences with the IEP meetings. I see a lot of anxiety. and it seems the… -
Dear God
So, I'm totally going to cheat my way through the first part of this blog post by using yesterday's status updates to tell you what happened. and I don't even care. because it's like that. yeah. and, I'm not even editi…

