Just trying to be a Good Mom, sometimes succeeding, sometimes not. But blogging about it anyway.
From the monthly archives:
Its Spring time…that means a few things in the Suburbs:
1. Kids playing in the driveway
2. Door-to-door idiots, I mean independently contracted merchants selling high quality magazines so that they can earn a $400 scholarship.
3. Door-to-door Vinyl siding salesmen, here to help us defraud our insurance company.
You know how I feel about #1 [...]
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We are working on some life skills with Pookie. Well, we are always doimg that, I guess. But we have a few priority ones, ones that play heavily into school skills. One is getting him to go to the bathroom alone in a public place AND return to the starting point AND [...]
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As promised, a picture of Giggles and one of the bowls I made for my friends at work who got fired. Sorry, I mean “RIFd” (reduction in force). I thought they would make nice binder clip bowls for their new desks. I don’t use a tutorial for these, but there are some [...]
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No real post here, just some gratuitous pictures of my kids.
She’s not really angry. She just discovered her arms can do this.
Giggles loves to play in the basement. Sometimes if hanging on the knob does not work, she kicks the door.
This is Georgie the Giraffe. He belongs to Giggles and Pookie, a [...]
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I just made a really cute Tea Wallet from this tutorial. Its for my friend Sally at work. I usually would not give her a birthday present, since I am not trying to breed recipriocity, but she is losing her job at the end of this week and I am sad. She [...]
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Pookie has hair.
Pookie has autism.
Pookie needs haircuts.
Pookie hates haircuts.
Those are the facts.
Does he hate haircuts because he has autism? We don’t know. Probably. It seems common among his peers. Haircuts can be very traumatic for those with autism. There can be loud noises (clippers), your face might get [...]
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I won $43 at Bunco Friday night!
Lots of fun. I had never played before, but it really is easy.
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Background: Pookie and Giggles are having a rough streak. It started 5 months ago when the newly mobile Giggles figured out that Pookie was playing with her toys. Pookie, on the other hand, has a valid point when he says that some of these toys she has claimed are actually his from [...]
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So…..yesterday I bought Geetle and Pookie Chicago Cubs hats for Summer. Pookie likes his. Geetle LOVES hers. She wore it all day. As she was getting ready for bed, BAGD told her that he likes the St Louis Cardinals, who were playing the Cubs that night.
She wore her [...]
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No, this is not a rant about automated robo-dialers or the “press 7 to speak to a representative” customer service lines. This is about me wanting to speak to someone who had a heart, some one who had emotions like a human being. Someone who would listen to me and respond with honesty [...]
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