Brave Birthday Party
Adam has a friend. This friend has a wife. She does these things that are amazing. I have two children in my home right now, and some days I think I’ve done a damn good job because everyone is fed and bathed and no one is crying (including myself) when Adam gets home from work. [...]
Christmas Cards
I didn’t want to write this post tonight, but I think I’m going to be grumpy until I get it out of my head. I want to have Christmas portraits done with the littles and I know Egg would lose his mind if he got to wear a pretty dress for it. I could probably [...]
Guest Post: Aspies Offend (GASP)
I have a few guest posts from Adam coming to Sam’s Stories soon. I don’t ask him to write, but sometimes his brain gets going and I hear the keys of his tablet go clickety clack and he emails me something to publish. It’s weird. He rarely comments or mentions a particular post to me [...]
How To (Not) Take A Decent Picture
I really enjoy taking pictures. Whenever there is an occasion (like Easter) to look nice I try to make myself presentable. I prefer to be photographed looking less like a harried mother who has not slept through the night on a regular basis since 2008. So I put on makeup, ask Chicken to straighten my [...]
A Formula For Disaster
Although I frequently want to blog about Adam having Asperger’s Syndrome I am stopped by the reactions that I get in real life. When I say that Adam does this or that thing, the person invariably says, “Oh he’s just being a man. That’s what men do.” I respond by saying, “No. This is not [...]
Adam and The Gluten
My friend Batty Nurse asked about any differences that Adam has noticed in eliminating gluten from his diet. Well, that’s a hard one. As an Aspie, Adam doesn’t have a lot of self-awareness skills. I have learned to tell him, “Adam, you seem to be angry right now,” and he has learned not to go [...]
Bad Grandma
You might remember that I nicknamed Adam’s paternal grandmother “Bad Grandma” several years ago. I had not yet met her, but I had heard enough stories from family members to coin the name. Adam’s father enjoyed the tales of Bad Grandma until he heard ME use the term. After that he was offended and upset. [...]
Dessert
I found out tonight from Kuroneko-Hime’s Twitter stream that I’m not the only gluten intolerant person that gets bitter about Thanksgiving. Maybe it is because Thanksgiving meal is full of such wonderful memories of food and family (or at least food) that to miss out on it hurts. A lot. And when you’re (allegedly) pregnant [...]
Happy Birthday, Son
I received the following comment on a post recently: Awesome post sally, it’s been a long-time since I’ve been on here. I see that nobody has lost their passion. Good to be back. The URL associated with the comment is a business (I didn’t click on it) and the name is as well. I’m thinking [...]