Breakfast at Charly’s

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Don’t kill me, dear Kelly

I know. I was horrible about posting last month. By the time I got five minutes of quiet time to myself, I was usually too tired to write anything at all. Too much has happened for me to catch up on so I’ll have to wipe April clean and move on. It will be like [...]

In a rather large nutshell

This is the fourth time I’ve erased and started over. Why a simple blog entry is so hard to start today is beyond me.
I’ve been really tired and depressed but I’m not sure exactly to what to attribute it. I don’t know why I think there has to be one sole cause for how I [...]

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The little things

When you have a school-aged child who has social challenges like autism, you worry that they are going to become that sore thumb in class that everyone notices as really different. You don’t get to see them during the school day so you worry if kids are teasing more than they might normally (unfortunately we [...]

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Zoom zoom zoom

You know, I’m used to the low side of bipolar disorder. The depressions are what I experience most and just last week I started coming out of what was a fairly bad one. Part of it was the stress of moving or at least it was brought on by it but either way it went [...]

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So is he or isn’t he?

When someone tells you that you have a child with special needs, it can be one of the hardest things to come to terms with. Your life goes from zero to 60 in one second and you’re not quite sure what happened. It takes a long time to accept that your child isn’t going to [...]

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Boxes holding boxes

I ordered a bunch of packing stuff from U-Haul and it arrived today. Now I have boxes holding boxes in my living room to add to the already established mayhem of laundry baskets and general disarray. I’ve packed four small but heavy boxes full of books and random items and I’m going to put them [...]

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Part B moments and waterproofing

This last tussle between me and my mother hit Part B today when she called me as I was driving home from Izzie’s gymnastics class. She asked if I had heard from the insurance adjuster and at that point I had not so I told her I’d call them when I got home and then [...]

My basement debacle

Remember when I said that my day off on Thursday was refreshing? Yeah, that’s over.
Rather than trying to totally rehash the day’s events, I’m going to cut and paste a couple of emails I sent to friends on my BlackBerry while I sat in the living room feeling nauseous, trying to wash the nasty that [...]

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Time for a break

Every six weeks or so my mother and I go out to lunch and then get our hair cut and colored. I’m happy to report that even after spending more time together this week than we have since I moved out 14 years ago (well, when I moved out for good when I got married [...]

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Tornadoes and a Technicolor yawn

First I want to send out good wishes to my friends in the Chicagoland area and hope their homes and families fared the storms okay. Jen lost power and Internet access in Oak Park but luckily still had electricity. I also have friends in Oak Lawn, Plainfield and other areas and I’ll be checking in [...]