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Here is my 5-y-o waiting for Rosh Hashana to start. The Jewish New Year starts tonight at sundown. We will have a festive meal, and dip apples in honey for a sweet new year. I sent out my greeting cards yesterday. Rosh Hashana cards to the Jewish friends and relatives, and "thinking of you" cards to everybody else. I enclosed 4 by 6 copies of the children's portrait from this summer (see bottom of blog). So I *do* send yearly greeting cards, but not in December.

Here is a pic of my middle son, R***. He is proudly wearing his new pair of pajamas. The material was purchased by my daughter and I about 8 years ago. We had intended to sew matching sets of PJs for ourselves, but never got around to it. My housekeeper sometimes likes to do quiet things while she is here, as she can't be running and scrubbing 8 hours per day. So she did the sewing. Cute! The funny thing is, now we are so health conscious, the Coca Cola theme of the fabric raised my son's eyebrows at first. I figure I must be doing something right if he has that attitude towards soda.

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"Sunshine is the greatest disinfectant." I love that saying by Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis. True in so many ways. If there is evil in the world, let the sun shine on it. Publicize. But what got me thinking this morning was the more literal translation. How do we keep our kids from getting sick every 2 seconds. As the cold and flu season approaches, there is one easy thing we can do. One thing I always do is take a shopping cart from a sunny area. Usually one sitting warm out in the parking lot. This way I know that the warm surfaces are more clean of viruses/germs. Another thing I do is to take my kids to outdoor parks instead of indoor play-places. Just the simple sun shining on the toys/slides makes the entire experience much cleaner. And those are my sun-shiny thoughts this morning. ;-)

Or should that read adventures in special education? The first step is the "aha" moment when you realize that there may be something going on with your kid. I knew my son struggled in school since first grade, especially in math. We went on struggling, year after year, and I kept hoping it was immaturity, disorganization, and that it was something he would grow out of. My friend in the neighborhood loaned me a book called "The Elephant in the Playroom: Ordinary Parents Write Intimately and Honestly About the Extraordinary Highs and Heartbreaking Lows of Raising Kids with Special Needs" by Denise Brodey. This book sat on my counter top for months and months. I finally started reading it out of guilt when I found it while cleaning. A few stories in and I was hooked. I love reading about people's lives. And these heartwarming stories of family and love were amazing. Then midway through the book my heart skipped a beat. There was a story describing my son

I took care getting dressed today. I wore a crisp white shirt and black flat-front pants from Ann Taylor. With pearls. Professional. Here are pics of me after the meeting, posing with baby A. Everyone was polite. And I got everything that I wanted. The most interesting part was when I asked to have a record removed from his cumulative school file under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The principal asked to see the paper and the moment she looked at it she said, "this is illegal." She said she would have it shredded immediately. And the references to the paper in the meeting minutes will not refer to the objectionable terminology directly, so the vicious name-calling against my son will stop there. Done. And I asked them to put those other 2 items that were left off of his accommodations list back on, the use of the Alpha Smarts computer and the teacher checking the backpack to make sure he has all his material to go home. Done. We signed the Oc

Be careful what you ask for. I asked for my son's cumulative file from the school to prepare for this Friday's IEP meeting. :-( I feel like I have been stabbed repeatedly. Gosh, I know that the teachers make these notes assuming the parent will never read them. But YIKES! The negativity! The sickening, judgmental comments! They repeat stuff the mean kids in class say about him. It is truly horrible. I wouldn't wish this on any parent. The reason I endure the torture is that these negative statements are ammunition for me to use in upcoming meetings. He will be undergoing a speech and language therapy assessment soon to evaluate for socialization, and the negative comments and criticisms about him will help to qualify him. I also went through the IEP form, twenty pages, to glean the accommodations out, so that I could help the teacher to not "forget" to do the things they promised. Here is a copy of the email. I am going over the IEP carefully, and I ha

I saw a post about how people use the term "Down's Syndrome". A mother of a baby with Down Syndrome wanted to explain that some of the ways people refer to her child are offensive. For example, calling her baby a "Down's Baby" is wrong. It is wrong to label anybody by their illness or condition. That is like saying "cancer baby" or "crack baby". Offensive. And the term is Down Syndrome, not Down's Syndrome or Down's. A child with Down Syndrome, is an appropriate way to say it. So I replied to her, remembering what I learned at the TASK seminar I went to. I agree. I learned about this only recently when I went to a seminar to learn about handling my son's special education needs. The term is "individuals with special needs" or a child with special needs. Not learning disabled, but a child with a learning disability. Or, a child is not "autistic", but he is a child with autism, or an individual with

My Dad emailed me this week that his sister has terminal cancer. :-( I have decided to go and visit her now, ASAP. So baby A and I will be hopping on a plane for a visit the first weekend of October. My aunt is pretty upset by this news. I hope we can bring a little sunshine to her days. This is a side of the family that I don't know very well. My aunt has 4 daughters, all about my age, and they have 12 children between them. This will be a long-awaited family reunion for me. I read a really good blog post this week about breastfeeding on an airplane. I had no idea that I would be putting the suggestions to use so soon. Tips for Breastfeeding on a Plane

I said I was cooking more lately, and here is some evidence. This is beef stew in the crock pot. This is spinach lasagna: And this is banana nut bread. A great way to avoid wasting those last, overripe bananas. Mash them with the potato masher, throw in the rest of the ingredients, and you have yummy bread that the kids will actually *eat*.

The stepped-up keyboarding tutoring worked! My son had a list of 15 spelling words to write in a list yesterday. I took him to the computer and got the right page up and ready, then went downstairs to cook dinner; I figured I had plenty of time. He came hopping downstairs 7 minutes later saying he was DONE. This same type of assignment took him 30 minutes to complete just a few months ago. He was SO proud of himself. He said, "hey, those Score! keyboarding sessions really worked." I gave him the biggest hug. What a kid!

A few weeks ago the folks at Score! tutoring informed me that they were no longer offering the low-cost computer tutoring on site. They would offer computer tutoring online from home, or small-group tutoring on site. The online tutoring will not work for us, because part of the value of paying money is that *they* are the ones that have to cajole my son into doing his work and moving from section to section instead of me. He and I have enough struggles just getting through homework every day. I am NOT going to supervise him and crack the whip to get him through an online program. The small group tutoring is a good idea, but we have that covered already, as R*** will be receiving special ed help in small groups in the 2 areas, math and writing, identified by Score! I told them this, and also that, since they are no longer the best-priced tutoring in town, there is no longer any incentive to drive the extra miles to get there. There are tons of expensive tutoring services much clo

Let me explain what I mean by that. I have been working harder lately at all the areas of my life that are meaningful to me. For example, I have begun putting a lot more effort into menu planning and cooking these past 3 weeks. Planning ahead eliminates the stressful panic that sets in around 3 or 4 in the afternoon when there is nothing planned or thawed for dinner. On Sundays, I take out my favorite cookbooks or recipe collections and plan the week. I make sure that Tuesdays and Thursdays (jujitsu nights) have some sort of crock pot or casserole dinner. The other nights can have more labor-intensive dishes. All the ingredients not already in the house go on the shopping list. And I have been trying new recipes, some of which have turned out to be really good. Last night was Chinese Hot and Sour Soup with Tofu, along with a Chinese Chicken Salad. This was made using the leftovers from the Crock Pot Chicken Curry (with rice) the night before. Sunday's dinner turned out a