2012-05-29 14:13
So Audrey came upon my iPhone, which was logged into eBay, which is linked up to my PayPal account, which is linked to my credit card, and could have bought anything her little heart desired… Read More
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this blog chronicles life with my 6 year old daughter audrey who is the funniest kid that i know, and also happens to have autism.
2012-05-18 18:14
A little late, but this was among the Mother's Day gifts in Audrey's overstuffed backpack last Friday. Over the years, I've gotten a lot of stuff with hand and/or foot prints, painted flower… Read More
2012-05-15 12:05
You've probably heard enough about the Mommy Wars by now, and read way too many posts about that stupid Time magazine cover story. Well, too bad because here's one more. Hey, at least I didn… Read More
2012-04-17 14:44
...and, in times of crisis, our friends and family merely d-bags. Or a-holes. Or f-wads. Take your pick. Well, not all of them all of the time. Just some of them most of the time.I'm over on… Read More
2012-04-02 14:27
Today is World Autism Awareness day!One of the goals of this day is to encourage early detection, diagnosis and intervention...and completely not in keeping with that spirit, hop over t… Read More
2012-03-27 12:32
Watching Baby MozartI like to watch Baby Mozart.In Baby Mozart I don't like the puppet dog.I only like Maria.In the castle toy,I like the egg sound.I cannot like the boo boo boo sound.In the… Read More
2012-03-22 14:10
This was our first night in Florida, after dinner in downtown Disney. The first video features Audrey in the background snubbing someone trying to dance with her while Grace Anne gets jiggy… Read More
2012-03-20 11:55
Our trip to Disneyworld was mostly blissful...until the very last day when I momentarily lost track of Audrey at a water park.You know the drill: heart-racing, cold-sweating, sheer terror as… Read More
2012-03-18 15:24
She may not like them, but she currently shares their smile Read More
2012-03-15 16:25
Our second annual trip to DisneyWorld with Audrey's BFF Grace Anne, her mother Aimee, and Grace Anne's Pawpaw and Meemaw was another resounding success.For the second year in a row, we got t… Read More
2012-02-21 15:43
In my latest Patch article, I discuss how to explain death to a child with autism. Just call me Elizabeth Kubler Ross. Or not. Either way.CLICKETH ON THESE WORDS AND GO FORTH AND READETH.&nb&hell…Read More
2012-02-08 00:05
I wrote last fall about Audrey's new obsession with cartwheels. Well, it hasn't faded, and, as a matter of fact, intensified to the extent where I decided to try to have it do us some good.I… Read More
2012-02-02 15:38
Audrey's been talking a lot lately about things she's gonna do "when she gets older". Which for the most part amounts to all of the things that I won't let her do right now...plus some other… Read More
2012-01-24 13:01
My latest Patch article follows on my last one about my (so far) half-assed job search. Have you heard of these jackass interview questions that are like the riddle of the Sphinx?… Read More
2012-01-13 13:19
Somehow I managed to make it through nearly 8 years of parenthood without having ever crossing the threshold of a Chuck E. Cheese. But that all changed last weekend. Audrey was invited to th… Read More
2012-01-10 13:27
2012 will more than likely be the year that I return to work after seven years off from full-time employment.If I am to believe every article ever written about working motherhood, I am doom… Read More
2011-12-27 15:40
How's winter break going for everyone? How do your kids do with two weeks of unstructured time off?For us, it's not as bad as it used to be, but it still takes a concerted effort to make sur… Read More
2011-12-18 01:06
Last year, I wrote a post called "The Downers Grove Christmas Tree Is Rubbish" which got me some attention in my hometown, led to my column at the Patch and a writeup on my blog in… Read More
2011-12-13 18:13
In my latest Patch article, I marvel at the quality of mall Santas in this day and age.In my day, they were obviously fake and mostly drunk...and we'd still walk 10 miles through two feet of… Read More
2011-11-29 13:15
Supposedly it's a myth that people get any more depressed during the holidays than any other time of the year, or that suicide rates are any higher. But I didn't let that stop me from b… Read More
2011-11-24 12:43
I wasn't able to get this entire work of art scanned in, so I will just have to relate to you what Audrey is thankful for this holiday season:Chocolate because it is yummy.Jack bec… Read More
2011-11-17 15:27
A few weeks ago, I came out of the closet as a kiddie portrait addict, and pointed out that school pictures really have no chance at all of turning out well because mothers aren't prese… Read More
2011-11-15 13:00
My latest article on Patch is not exactly a barrel of laughs. I'm writing about child sexual abuse in the wake of the Penn State scandal, and the astronomical rates at which the de… Read More
2011-11-05 14:48
Over the life of this blog, I've shared many of Audrey's obsessions. Some of them were fleeting, while some will probably never fleet. I've always thought that this blog could be a sort of a… Read More
2011-11-01 13:56
I'm all for celebrating my kid's special-ness and standing up for diversity and fighting for acceptance of the differently-abled, but when it comes to being of a certain school age when conf… Read More
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