As Tamara moves into her cheer career and I’ve been posting pictures and comments, one of the more frequent sentiments I’ve heard from my friends is along the lines of, “Imagine you involved with cheerleading! That’s so unlike you!” At first, I laughed along with them and agreed. And then I realized that was wrong. […]
Category Archives: Parenting
Borderline
Everything medical in our lives (except for Kender!) seems to be borderline. The boundary line (ohai Loki!) between “clinical” and “not a problem” is not always a happy place to live. Being on the boundary line means that medical treatment almost always can help, but doctors won’t diagnose or treat anything until it crosses that […]
Swing 2.0
Kender got a new swing today. If I had been doing HabitRPG last year, today I would have accomplished the reddest of my red reddy red to-do tasks. That rider has been sitting in our shed since we put this playset up…was it 7 years ago? 8? There’s been a baby swing in that spot […]
Odyssey of the Mind
Today’s theme is “Hurry up and wait,” as I sit here in the Traverse City Central High School cafeteria while the kids do their Odyssey of the Mind State competition. Odyssey of the Mind is a creative competition that gives kids problems to solve and tasks to accomplish and then scores them on how well […]
Tidbits
When the Kirby salesman comes and vacuums my living room with his Kirby vacuum and gets up all that extra dirt, I don’t hear, “Kirby vacuums are better than my vacuum.” I hear, “Gods, I’m a terrible housekeeper, and if I would just keep up with vacuuming my carpets every week, there wouldn’t be so […]
The Kender Report
Kender has had a busy week. On Monday, he went under anesthesia for an eye exam, which showed nothing new. Dr. Trese said we could start backing off one of the three eye drops Kender takes every day, which is happy news. The bigger event was Wednesday, when Kender went under anesthesia again, this time […]
Chuck E. Cheese
This is what happens when I take my family to Chuck E. Cheese. Jarod’s 8th birthday was last week, and every year he likes to go to Chuck E. Cheese with a friend or two to celebrate. We never set foot in there any other time, just once or twice a year for a small […]
Safe Space
This post from AutisticChick came up in my feed today, and it along with some of her other posts got me to thinking about Kender, about the differences between our life with Kender and what I see other people describing in support groups. I thought about the way I try to interact with Kender, about […]
It’s Finally Finished!
It’s done! Hallelujah, praise all the gods, drink and be merry, the match video is done! I finally finished it Friday evening. Since then, it’s been compiling into standard format files and uploading to the internet so I can share links with the trainers if something happens to the USB drive I’m going to Priority […]
I Am So Sick of Kender’s Match Video
Still working on it. I’m not the only one; posts about the horrors of making these videos are increasing on our Facebook group for the dog class. Every time I think I’m nearing the end, that all I have to do is stitch what I have together, I think of half a dozen more things […]