Today is Tad’s last day of kindergarten.  Tomorrow will Ane’s last day of first grade. I’m actually quite ready for Ane to move on.  Tad… not so much.  I visited a CLC first/second grade classroom yesterday with one of the vice-principals at Tad’s school, and was pleased with the skill set that they are promoting […]

It was a year ago yesterday that the Webmaster and I sat down in a psychologist’s office with Tad, with all of our testing complete, and heard the words, “Your son has autism.” While that moment may be frozen in time for me, it has definitely marched onward for Tad.  He lost his very first […]

This is quite probably my most favorite piece of Tad’s art EVER. This is a tiger shark (which he misspelled, but got all the letters for and wrote the “g” backwards), which you can tell because he has stripes (very true) chasing a seal.  The best part of this picture is the seal. Apparently, the […]

It started off as a normal morning – but an early one. Rerun was woken up by the garbage truck outside a full half hour earlier than he normally gets up.  Groggily, I got up (the Webmaster was in the shower or he would have probably brought him to me), and brought Rerun back into […]