Lately, Ethan has been socializing more with other kids his age. That’s great on one hand… but it comes with a ton of struggles that non-spectrum kids (and moms) wouldn’t have.

In school, when he has meltdowns during unsupervised time, they turn violent. Although he has meltdowns at home, he doesn’t get […]

Ethan had some real difficulty in his first few years of school. His behavior was wacky, he wasn’t listening to anyone, wasn’t doing his homework, wasn’t working in class and was falling behind. There were lots of reasons.
He moved here to live with me and we got him on a 504 […]

I’m making a jewelry box for Emma for xmas. I’ll glue the gemstones onto the knobs, add another coat of pearl rose to the inside of the drawers and very carefully glue the fragile wings onto the fairy on the top and then I’ll carefully lay it into a box with tissue paper to […]

So, as it turns out, the Man Child’s school overestimated how many 3rd graders they would have this year and Ethan only wound up with 12 kids in his class. Sounds great to me! The school didn’t share my opinion though. So they re-shuffled all of the 3rd grade classes to get […]

Person on the other end of the phone : “Hi, Mrs. Carrie?”
(oh fuck… it’s like the SECONRyan DAY OF SCHOOL! What has he done THIS TIME? No speak-e engles!)
Me : “Yeeeeeeeees… ”
Her: “Yes, this is Mrs. WonderfulSpecialEdCoordinator. I got the copy of the 504 plan that you dropped off and I’m looking over […]

I took Ethan to school today for his first day at the new school. We arrived early so that we could scope out where everything was and meet his teacher. A teacher we encountered encouraged us to simply congregate on the black top with the other students… “oh, you don’t know my child”, I […]

If you remember, a couple of weeks ago, we had an IEP meeting for Ethan to review the school’s evaluation. I was disappointed because they didn’t do all the requested evaluations, the disregarded the evaluations done by the private psychologist and they seemed resistant, for some reason, to label him as anything. For […]

We had the IEP meeting for Ethan yesterday. We went over all the school’s testing and what their conclusions were.

On some of the cognitive/processing testing, because Ethan is SO smart, and tested SO above average in some areas, his ‘low’ scores were still in the ‘normal’ range. I don’t feel like […]

Me: Ok, Student of the Week, we have another day ahead of us! Or is it Star Citizen of the week?
Ethan: I think it’s Student of the Week. I didn’t get to really read the certificate.
Me: I did. I just don’t remember what it said. We can read it again tonight. […]

I’m leaving in a few minutes to pick Ethan up at LAX. I’m excited! It was fun not having kids around until Wednesday of this week, at which time, I missed them horribly. Ethan especially, if I may say so.
Yesterday, I read a neat article about How to Become and Early Riser. […]