Happy New Year
I am enjoying the evening with my boys. I could go to church with the family or I could go uptown and watch the fireworks. But this year hanging out at home with a white russian and dinner is much more appealing. I guess I am getting old it was bound to happen. All I do know is after 3 nights of staying up until 5:00 or 5:30 with my son. It would be ideal to be asleep when 2007 rolls in. There is an old saying that whatever you are doing the last day of the year you will be doing all of the coming year. Hmm sleep? Well there are definitely worse things :)
Something kind of cool happened early this morning that I haven't told anyone. Mostly because it is surrounded by terrible circumstances, typical for me I guess. My son was up late and I was so very tired. It is an age old dance between us 15 years of it actually. But for some reason he decided to leave the house. He has never done that before. I must have dozed off it was about 3:30 and the 1st thing I noticed was I didn't hear him. He has this sound he makes it is like background music to me now and whenever I don't hear it I know something is wrong. I got up and went looking. The sliding glass doors were open and the lights in the garage were on. I called my son's name, thinking he was in the garage. Even the puppy jumped up (even she was sleeping). And a police officer appears and says "ma'am". I nearly jump out of my skin I am so startled. And he asks if I have a brother who is autistic. I go rushing out and explain my son is autistic and he tells me they have him. He wandered off and wound up at a house a couple of blocks away and began knocking on the door. They called the police (friendly neighbors) and the officer asked him his name.
Now my son knowing his phone number and address is a decade long fight. It is a battle I have every year at his IEP. What good are the other reading goals if he can't tell someone his phone number or address if he is lost? I can't even recall how many times I have made this point or asked this question. Well the circumstances were terrible but it turns out my son does know his address and telephone number and my name. It is how the police were able to bring him home. Of course after I got over the elation and relief of that I went to radio shack and bought buzzers for the doors that will go off if he opens them. We don't want any night time walks alone in the future.
I am not a big New Years resolution person I have broad goals for myself. Personal growth goals, parenting goals, financial goals, and I like to reflect at the end of the year. How am I doing as a person, a mother, a co-worker? Am I the person I want to be? Am I where I want to be for 36 almost 37? Things like that. I resolve to be kinder to others this year than I was last. I resolve to continue to ask for help when I need it instead of trying to do it all alone. I resolve to save more and spend less. I resolve to post more entries on the blog instead of just pics or memes :)
Happy New Year...
Something kind of cool happened early this morning that I haven't told anyone. Mostly because it is surrounded by terrible circumstances, typical for me I guess. My son was up late and I was so very tired. It is an age old dance between us 15 years of it actually. But for some reason he decided to leave the house. He has never done that before. I must have dozed off it was about 3:30 and the 1st thing I noticed was I didn't hear him. He has this sound he makes it is like background music to me now and whenever I don't hear it I know something is wrong. I got up and went looking. The sliding glass doors were open and the lights in the garage were on. I called my son's name, thinking he was in the garage. Even the puppy jumped up (even she was sleeping). And a police officer appears and says "ma'am". I nearly jump out of my skin I am so startled. And he asks if I have a brother who is autistic. I go rushing out and explain my son is autistic and he tells me they have him. He wandered off and wound up at a house a couple of blocks away and began knocking on the door. They called the police (friendly neighbors) and the officer asked him his name.
Now my son knowing his phone number and address is a decade long fight. It is a battle I have every year at his IEP. What good are the other reading goals if he can't tell someone his phone number or address if he is lost? I can't even recall how many times I have made this point or asked this question. Well the circumstances were terrible but it turns out my son does know his address and telephone number and my name. It is how the police were able to bring him home. Of course after I got over the elation and relief of that I went to radio shack and bought buzzers for the doors that will go off if he opens them. We don't want any night time walks alone in the future.
I am not a big New Years resolution person I have broad goals for myself. Personal growth goals, parenting goals, financial goals, and I like to reflect at the end of the year. How am I doing as a person, a mother, a co-worker? Am I the person I want to be? Am I where I want to be for 36 almost 37? Things like that. I resolve to be kinder to others this year than I was last. I resolve to continue to ask for help when I need it instead of trying to do it all alone. I resolve to save more and spend less. I resolve to post more entries on the blog instead of just pics or memes :)
Happy New Year...
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The tattoo quite small by most standards. It is on my stomach and covered most of the time. There aren't many people who are aware I have one.
