As you regular readers know (and welcome to those of you who are checking in over here via Matthew!  I will be blogging about my out-of-computer meeting with him very soon!), Tad is not autistic, and he is not mentally retarded (though he may act like it sometimes).  He is, though, socially delayed and has […]

I’ve just experienced my first bummer moment of our Disneyland vacation, and we don’t even leave until next week.
“it’s a small world” is CLOSED until this November for renovation.  CLOSED.  As in, CAN NOT TAKE CHILDREN ON AIR CONDITIONED 15 MINUTE RIDE.
Just one question, why oh why is it being renovated now, during the summer […]

My day yesterday was spent searching for as much information as I could glean about this case in Florida.
To quote the news article from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: 
 Melissa Barton said she is considering legal action after her son’s kindergarten teacher led his classmates to vote him out of class.
After each classmate was allowed to say […]

Well, it seems that Ane’s immune system isn’t as hardy as she thought.
The poor kid fell ill at school today, prompting a phone call to me from her teacher to come pick her up.  She had the same fever that Tad had had on Friday - and threw up in the car on the way […]