Category: collaboration
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Today was Hard
My youngest son started screaming this morning. I don’t know why. I gave him his morning pills and that helped for a while. But his dysregulation returned pretty quickly. He was screaming again an hour later and got an emergency pill. He went out to sit in the car, honked the horn for a few…
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Black Cat on a Friday Night
It’s 10 pm and Ether is still outside. That always concerns Stephanie and me a bit. But tonight in particular Ben is anxious that the cat is out. He doesn’t like the cats outside but has come to accept it during the day. But at night they all need to be inside for him to…
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Just Four More Minutes
I didn’t want to get out of bed today. I bargained for a few more minutes of sleep. Now mind you it hasn’t been a bad day. Stephanie had a horrible day but I’ll let her tell you about that. Ben came home screaming and got an emergency pill, but at least he didn’t attack…
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Dollar Tree
When Alex got home from his day program his aide was talking about Dollar Tree. Alex got his treats and Ben felt left out. Ben said “Dollar Tree, please,” and words have power. It’s only a few blocks away and we went on a walk the way we usually go. Sadly there was a very…
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Fresh Air and Weird Al
It’s been a beautiful day out. Last year my mom got us a couple of folding canvas chairs. They are worse for the wear but still mostly functional. So I set them up in the lawn and set up Ben’s phone to play Weird Al through the YouTube app while I played my mobile game…
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Corn and Tomatoes
Stephanie has a garden. We are both keeping an eye on it. The corn is growing very well as are the tomatoes. We’ve got a few beans and one long squash vine. It’s a pretty good attempt.
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Case of Mistaken Identity
My wife has been telling me about a person in her childhood for years. He was kind of a jerk to her. A guy with the same name from around the same period in her life married her best friend. But she didn’t realize that they were two different guys. Now she is having an…
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Big Couch
Last week Stephanie took Ben to pick out a new couch. He found one he liked and we’ve been promising he would get it today. The delivery people brought it in the house and up the stairs, but sadly it was too wide for the doorframe. So they brought it back downstairs and it’s our…
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Swimming at the Y
We had a little extra money so Stephanie got a family membership to the YMCA. Ben loves swimming. We went as a family today. We all stayed in the water walking channel for half an hour. Then Stephanie and Ben went to the hot tub. Alex and I did more water walking. When he was…