My muse is being an asshole this week and not talking to me. Usually I can pop my daily drabble out but I'm just looking at the prompts in front of me and staring blankly. Doesn't help that Tom's sleep schedule has gone to hell again and he's been waking up and Oh My God in the morning, so by the time evening rolls around my will to live write has ( Read more... )

So, my son Thomas, who is autistic, is entering adolescence. In a normal child's life this is a difficult time. In Tom's, its been pretty upsetting. Especially at daycare this year, since he's been increasingly disinclined to listen to the teachers there and they have been increasingly unable to handle him (the personnel consists of three women, ( Read more... )

One fun (for certain values of fun) aspect of having a learning disabled child is their ability to lock on a subject like a pit bull on a man's wrist and never let it go. Take for example my son's interest in the classic ST:TNG pinball machine, fueled by an original table that my sister owns for the rec room down in her family's basement. He ( Read more... )

Rascal was the second cat we acquired for our household, about a year after moonshadowed and I got married. Technically he was badasher's cat, adopted as a companion for his other cat, Max, who needed a distraction to keep from upsetting Tracy's cat, Sunny. In the end though he became ours mostly by default, and Steve left him with us when he moved out ( Read more... )

Woke this morning and found our cat, Salem, just lying listless on the floor. I opened a can of wet cat food and instead of following me into the powder room (so he can eat in peace) he just ignored it. So I picked him up and set him in front of the bowl and closed the door ( Read more... )

Travel: We were planning on doing Thanksgiving at home anyway, but after last weekend's trip to Cleveland we're doubly inclined to stay in today.

Dinner:Brined Turkey ( Read more... )

So Friday, myself, moonshadowed, Thomas and Georgia, plus Tracy's mom and Aunt Donna, all piled into my minivan for a trip to Cleveland so Tracy could meet with a couple of online friends and run in a local half-marathon ( Read more... )

Rolas and Mel's daughter doesn't even have a name yet and she's already demanding that I write about her. So she can complain about how boring Aunt Salli's planet is and how Aunt Ali is fun but a bit scary and how her dad can't possibly have been a pirate because that would mean he's actually done something interestingOh God, that means Rolas is my ( Read more... )

So my niece Tracy got married on Saturday. Georgia was in attendance as her flower girl, and did remarkably well given that she's only six and very bouncy. She went down the aisle with reasonable dignity, scattering petals and standing mostly still with the bridesmaids during the rest of the ceremony (it didn't hurt that they all were telling her ( Read more... )

1. chaypeta is doing one of those "Make a randomized list of your characters and then write answers to the prompts" memes. Except the meme is 100 items long and she's doing full panel cartoons of them. She's on Day Three right now (which is slightly naughty). Check them out at the Terinu website (and tell her she needs to post stuff to LJ again ( Read more... )