Days before Halloween the hubs likes to indulge my past pleasure of scary movies. Before I ever had children or knew what it was to have worries beyond my imagination for another, I thrilled my blood by spooking myself, jumping out from underneath the protective warm blanket I sit under. I’ve since lost the enjoyment,… Read more »
Category Archives: Exploration
The Last Day Before The First Day of 101 Goals In 1001 Days
(Confusing?) Well…this is it. The last day before the 1st day of 101 Goals in 1001 Days. I’m not certain there will be a specific goal I’m going to focus on, if I’ll pull a few out and make them works in progress? Maybe I’ll organize them…daily…weekly…one time project? Who knows. What I do know… Read more »
Can You Come Up With A Focused List For Yourself?
As many of us do, I’m constantly making lists, re-organizing, re-vamping, re-prioritizing. Lists for groceries, general to do, household chores, schedules, lists for each child, for myself, for others, how I want to balance my life. It seems I make lists for most everything. Some list items get done, others get permanently pushed to the… Read more »
101 Goals In 1001 Days With Special Happens
It’s here! May I introduce, Special Happens. My sister blog. A resource. A positive, informative, inspirational blog. I hope. Less personal, but personal. Whining and the incoherent ramblings of life, I will save for you, here…so lucky you are! Both blogs will be up simultaneously. I hope you find something worthy of reading and sharing… Read more »
Blogger…Writer…Blogger…Writer…
I’m having a hard time these days, Finding Balance. Having turned 38 only a week or so ago has, for whatever reason opened my eyes to the maturity I should have. Not maturity in stature or responsibility, but in mindset. Sure, I take care of my kids, do a half and half job of taking… Read more »
How Have You Changed How You Handle Stress?
Right now, I am. Apparently. A stress case. It takes some fairly honest reflection to say this to you. For instance, you can say you’re stressed. You can relay it as an excuse in a quick flip of the tongue, why you were snappy, are eating gourds of food, or eating nothing at all. You… Read more »
First Things First-Emotional Acceptance and Moving On by Cat Lichtenbelt
As part of the continuing First Things First Series, Cat Lichtenbelt has written this piece on “Emotional Acceptance and Moving Forward”. Enjoy: I see acceptance as coming to an agreement. It is like going to a meeting of the minds and everyone walking out on the same page with the same purpose and goals for… Read more »
Can A Blogger Find Balance By Closing Comments?
Finding Balance, you should know, does not mean I have found balance. Quite the opposite. I am no more balanced in my life, my direction or my cause for the time that I enjoy on this earth than I was say 7 years, 17 years or more, much less 7 minutes ago. The number of… Read more »
My First Autism/Asperger’s SuperConference Is Coming!
Being a parent of a multi-diagnosed child, it becomes difficult to fashion myself versed in all areas that have molded him to be who he is. Finding a way to concentrate on one area or another only leaves me to feel lacking for the others, as if having not paid attention to your other children… Read more »
Our Judgment…We Don’t Usually Have Good Luck
Judgment can cloud, or enlighten; judgement from experience, from the gut. Good judgement, not the judgement of others. Judgement of our situations. So long ago, while we were investigating J.Browne’s sleep disturbances, one of the many things we were told was, “consult Dr. Ferber’s book”. Use what he says to help J.Browne get to sleep… Read more »
Squirmy Wormy, How I Learned To Help Myself: An SPD Book Review
The numbers for Autism can be as staggering as 1 in 91 children; the incidence higher for boys, 1 in 58. Most children diagnosed with autism, along with children without this diagnosis have Sensory Processing Disorder. In the United States, as any as 1 in 20 people are effected by Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) according… Read more »