The four human beings I am happy to call my children are the greatest things that have ever happened to me. I can’t imagine my life without them. This is my absolute favorite picture of the four of them, taken years ago when H was a baby. They are all so happy. Also, this is my…
Category: Random Life As I Know It
Adventures in Online Dating
Facebook keeps hinting that it’s time for me to find the other fish in the sea. I’m not so sure.
The Day He Asked for Orange Soda
A few weeks ago we were sitting in the office of a psychologist, where H was getting evaluated to see where exactly he was developmentally. The doctor was asking him to complete a variety of tasks, none of which he apparently wanted to do. Instead, he sat and looked at his hands that he was…
Fifty Percent
“What do you think makes a divorce contentious?” As the professor waited for a response I looked around the room to see what anyone would say. I knew that I was going to be the only person who would really know the answer. Most – if not all – people in my class had probably never even gotten married, let…
My Wannabe Criminal
April is Autism Acceptance Month and I hope to share many of my colorful autism stories.
When It’s Always Your Fault
How do you prevent going insane, when your ex does everything they can to drive you crazy?
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
Sometimes I wish we could just figure out a way to get along.
The Stuff No One Tells You About Divorce
I found out my divorce was official via a random email on a Saturday morning around 4 am about 6 weeks after I had moved out of our home and in with my parents. I couldn’t sleep so I picked up my phone, and suddenly saw the email from my attorney. Somehow the divorce had become finalized and…
The day after.
Nablopomo day 9. I’m debating whether or not to post something meaningful about the presidential election results, but I’ve got nothing. It’s not that I am trying to be flippant or act as if I don’t care, because that is quite the opposite. This was the first presidential election where I had a definitive plan…
Did You Vote Today?
I did. Gotta exercise my constitutional right. On my 18th birthday, which happened to fall on an election day, my dad drove me to our designated polling place and helped me register to vote. Then he told me who to vote for. It wasn’t a presidential election and don’t ask me who or what I…