Where there’s a will…or how to not spoil him rotten

LP was at farm camp this week. It was a bit of a mixed bag. Overall, we feel very positive about his week there. The 4-H education center is resource rich. There were farm themed play materials, other children, animals, gardens, a tractor and even a teacher with a 5 year old son with SPD [...]

Read Full Post »

The park and all its problems.

Beck’s place is a nice place to read about parenting – lots of cupcakes, chores and the occasional rant. It’s just the type of reading I enjoy while my kids are napping and my tea is actually hot. These last two days her blog has echoed a problem that we are having in the neighborhood. [...]

Read Full Post »

Sensory Sunday: Make it Work Edition

I’m experience some impatience. I’m feeling over it. LP’s sensory processing system is all messed up. It’s so messed up that he exists in a little circle around me asking, needing, demanding that I process all his sensory information for him. And I’m just exhausted from the extra work of it & feeling over it. [...]

Read Full Post »

Sitting on my hands

Yesterday was our big OT evaluation at the children’s hospital. LP was feeling non-compliant. A little bit oppositional perhaps. It was, in fact, his nap time, but I wanted the opening. I took it. Apparently, I had made some sort of unconscious choice. I noticed myself helping him less – significantly less – than I [...]

Read Full Post »

Sensory Sunday: Help is on the way.

Again. I hope. Our pediatrician – bless his hippy, helpful soul – hung out with me and LP for half an hour last week at his office and ran an autism screening (which we actually knew would be negative and was, but it is for our school system). He is sending us to an occupational [...]

Read Full Post »

Email!

Oh my goodness, my google inbox spam filter was so full today. I’ve never even checked it before today (the spam inbox, not my real email. I am so internet savvy that I can check e-mail!) A number of you have emailed me -and apparently my spam filter thinks any email in response to a [...]

Read Full Post »

Sensory Sunday: Heartbreak Edition

Recorded after Valentine’s Day at preschool, celebrated by a mother-child tea. My day was hard. Seeing LP at school sort of blew my world apart. I find I don’t spend lots of time with other kids his age. We both find it exhausting. Apparently, he does very well at school. However, today was quite difficult [...]

Read Full Post »

Sensory Saturday: Now with less guilt!

Motherhood, that is. I’m trying it on for size. In general, I do well rejecting random guilt – like worrying I spend too much time on the computer when my kids are clearly fine, happy and busy – or worrying I don’t volunteer enough at the Thinker’s school when I couldn’t possibly do that with [...]

Read Full Post »

Sensory Issues Saturday: The Good and The Bad

So, it’s time to share. The life of Little Puppy thus far has been a puzzle, an uphill puzzle. One piece that has just placed itself is his Sensory Profile. The Good: What we learned by filling out a short questionnaire is that he experiences noise, motion and sound as stress. The questionnaire asked me [...]

Read Full Post »

The Christmas we almost didn’t need new batteries

Almost. It was very, very close. I catalog for your review the following battery requiring gifts: *musical caboose: this toy is so awesome and beloved by the toddler that I cannot even begrudge them the noise it makes, nor its inevitable need for a new battery. Most of all, I love it because it inspired [...]

Read Full Post »