Wishing all of you the most blessed of holiday seasons!

I'll be going on a small hiatus from the computer for a while.  I'm figuring through January should do it.  I'm having a bit of difficulty with my hand; I need to give things a chance to settle down, and I need to play the lovely readjustment-of the-pain-meds game.

I'm truly sorry; I'll miss you ( Read more... )

Seven years ago today, at just about this time, Dakota and I stood before a judge (well, actually, he was cuddled in my arms, but I stood!), and we adopted one another.  And--as simple  and as complicated as that--we became a family.  So today, Halloween Day, 2007, is our family's birthday; Koda even took cupcakes to school!

Koda told me last night ( Read more... )

So I'm sitting in my kid's therapist's office, doing the DSM-IV thing with her, getting ready for Koda's evaluation tomorrow (for the "official" Asperger's Syndrome dx) up at Shands Teaching Hospital (affiliated with University of Florida) up in Gainesville.  And I get a 911 message on my cell.  And it's summer camp, at his school.  And Ko has been ( Read more... )