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Quality Time

Wednesday, November 17th, 2010

There are many things that we could be giving the kids right now, but we’re trying to live as frugally as possible while the Webmaster is unemployed.  The one thing we can give them, though, is quality time.  And truthfully, the kid who needs it the most right now is… Ane. I have been reading […]



Artistic Expressions

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

One of the things that I keep hearing about Tad during his ABA and speech therapy sessions is how imaginative and creative he is with toys and drawings.  And while Tad likes to color, he’d rather draw.  Staying within someone else’s lines is not his strong point.  And yet drawing is the more expressive – […]



What we know

Monday, October 25th, 2010

Tad is a very interesting child.  If you read this blog regularly, you already knew that. Right before Rerun was born, I took Tad for yet another consultation with his pediatrician about his ongoing behavior issues.  I knew that the time was coming when we could get some kind of firm diagnosis about his behavior, […]



Disneyland Tip #2 – the special-needs child

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

As you regular readers know (and welcome to those of you who are checking in over here via Matthew! I will be blogging about my out-of-computer meeting with him very soon!), Tad is not autistic, and he is not mentally retarded (though he may act like it sometimes). He is, though, socially delayed and has […]