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Monthly Archives: January 2012
Hot stuff, on her way to a date
“He’s flipping out”
Aidan’s teacher, actually the school secretaries called me first then put her on and she said he was “flipping out”. I could hear Aidan in the background screaming, disrupting the school They calmed him down but I later found out he’d done a lot more than I even imagined, like cleared the books off bookshelves, … Continue reading
Learning to live with a hole in your heart
I went to a great autism meeting the other day, with the Autism Society of LA, and met tons of impressive people (yes they will be on my special ed show, either here or here, it depends if I do only video, not sure…). Anyway there were awesome speakers and yes I know I overuse that word, but … Continue reading
Oh no, the noises!
Aidan leaving the house to get on his schoolbus, hearing bird noises and baby noises and starting to get a little agitated. Continue reading
“Ex-Communication” or Demoting Your Ex to Email
I can’t even stomach drama from men anymore–thank you lord for bad relationships in the past! I’m just tired. Maybe it’s my age. Maybe it’s dealing with Aidan and all his teams and his intense needs every day. Maybe it’s just that I think *I* should be the drama in a relationship? Call me old-fashioned. … Continue reading
Acting like a true Latina Mami by heavily monitoring his male attendants and more…
There is a lot of work going on behind the scenes for the kid, and a lot going on for me professionally and personally, all good! I just want more sleep soon! Here’s the vid: Continue reading
That damn A-Z Recipe Book
Aidan wants a recipe book. Bad. We looked all over and now I think he left it in Texas. Did I mention we live in California? Bad! I am trying to get him to work on texting so I had him work on this with his dad: Continue reading
Run like the wind!
My first job as a teenager was at HEB Hancock Center, when it actually faced Red River. Actually, I briefly had a job at Mr. Natural on Cesar Chavez, the vegetarian Mexican food place, but was fired when I spent too many late nights with my boyfriend out on Lake Travis (story of my life). … Continue reading
The boy “talks” about being sick
Aidan threw up tonight at a restaurant. A little embarrassing but that’s just parenting! I had been asking him all evening if he was sick because he seemed so tired. His attendant brought him home and told me that he’d been low energy but had no outbursts in his afterschool program (yelling, screaming, throwing things, … Continue reading
Divorcing Autism 