Every so often, I work from home during the day to give the wife a break from watching both kids.
Now, I know, obviously I’m a software engineer and I therefore am not “that busy”, since I’m somewhat settled in a single spot while I’m working. And more so since I was recently promoted to being the software development manager for my team. Continue reading
I’ve written in the past – most notably, in reaction to a comment I made elsewhere that seemed to evoke a lot of conflict – about how it irks me when the Monster (and other children with special needs) are excluded from events with other children their own age, including classmates’ birthday parties, seemingly just on the basis of their disabilities.
It’s not just the Monster, though – it’s the parents too. Continue reading
We took the Monster to a friend’s birthday party yesterday…
We have a number of friends who have children the same age as the Monster, and make sure to include our child along with their children’s friends, even if the Monster isn’t quite necessarily in a ‘friend’ mode. Continue reading
Normal families have Super Bowl parties.
We’re more fortunate than a lot of families that are dealing with an ASD, in that the Monster really is not sensory adverse. We’ve taken him to plenty of places – amusement parks, fireworks displays, bowling alleys and the like – where other children with Autism have trouble coping with all of the sensory overload. Continue reading
Here in Baltimore, the schools are closed for three days this week – yesterday because of Martin L. King Jr Day, today and tomorrow for “professional service”. Since the wife and the baby have their ‘mommy and me’ class on Mondays, I took the Monster around with me, then out to the JCC to pick up the baby so the wife could have personal time. Continue reading
So I missed out a lot this weekend, because of my bonspiel (curling tournament). It’s one of the rare times where I take “me time” in such huge quantities, and wasn’t conducive to my being either on Twitter or here.
But, after the bonspiel was over, I headed back to hook up with the family again and to head out to dinner with my wife and the kids. Continue reading
Just a few short things today – nothing really occurred to me as ‘important’ to be talking about for the moment, so just slice-of-life kind of things. Continue reading
My family goes annually to the renaissance festival. It’s been something my wife and I were doing for years before children, and there’s little to stop us from keeping up with it now that we have them. Continue reading
Sorry for not being around for a few days. We ended up going (without much forethought) to the Renaissance Festival on Sunday – I’ll write about that in a day or two – and then we ran smack into Rosh Hashanah.
And I’m going to dive right into my topic of the day – we didn’t take the Monster to services for Rosh Hashanah, and I’m perfectly fine with that decision. Continue reading
So last night was the back to school night for the Monster.
I have to admit that I wasn’t ready for this quite yet – I’d figured that we had at least a year, maybe two, before we’d be doing this… but there we were, sitting in the gym of an elementary/middle school listening to the principal and whatnot. And it felt about as weird as we expected. Continue reading