It is World Autism Awareness Day (and also Friend’s birthday – happy birthday, Friend!!!), so here are my two everyday examples of awareness. I feel like anyone who knows these boys knows how their ASD affects them, but how do I describe the effect that the lockdown is having on these two? Tad is an […]

If there is anything I am learning while we are all stuck together, it is that we MUST have some space to ourselves.  The boys are not the best practictioners of that, because they are always convinced that someone else is doing something MORE fun than they are, and that must be investigated. So, it […]

The school district has rebooted the online school program as version 2.0, which started yesterday.  The kids were a little confused, but after two weeks off as they worked out how they wanted to arrange things, I think this will be a much more manageable model. And now that Ane is back, and acclimating to […]

Something must have nudged Thumper yesterday, because after we watched church online, he insisted on wearing a button-up shirt, and then put on his socks and shoes.  Then he walked outside and waited by the car. He knew it was Sunday! (Why he had to pick a shirt off the ironing pile is beyond me…) […]