A Little Chaos Theory

After saying goodbye to Grandma, Aunt Caffy, and Uncle Spud, Jude and I headed home while Scott finished up a couple things with the other boys.
Jude: We’re going to beat Daddy.
Me: Probably. He hasn’t left yet?
Jude: He hasn’t left yet?
Me: No.
Jude: Silly Daddy. He forgot to leave!
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As you know we’re hoping to move to Wyoming this summer. Scott has blanketed the state with applications, and other than checking to see if new openings are posted all we can do now is wait and see. This is the hard part.
To make the wait easier we’ve played a guessing game about [...]

I awoke to the sounds of a little boy jumping through the house. Little boys make more noise than a herd of cats. “It my birthday today.” “It my birthday.” I can’t believe that it’s that time already. It feels like he just turned 6. Or 3. Or that yesterday [...]

Because of how far we lived from family and friends, during my pregnancies with Jude and Roegen I joined message boards. They were places for me to be able to discuss my symptoms without driving Scott insane. They were places where I was able to feel connected to the world outside of my [...]

When I mention our family, I’m usually referring to Scott, Breydon, Jude, Roegen, and myself. I may throw in the cats (Socrates, Mickey Socks, and Independence). Sometimes I’ll mention the dogs (Captain Feathersword and Jojo’s Circus a.k.a. Captain and Jojo). I’ll give honorable mention to Gack, Toby, Uh Oh Cow, Dodo, and [...]

The plague is back. This time it’s of the respiratory variety, but it’s the plague nonetheless. All three of the boys and I are feeling like our lungs are being pulled out through our belly buttons. Scott has escaped so far - I’m hoping he manages to avoid it this time around.
I’m [...]

After a long day where I’ve been on the go from before the alarm went off, I came home from class exhausted.
When I sat down, Roegen crawled into my lap for a cuddle. I held him close and said “I love you, baby.”
He gave me a big smile and then said “I [...]

“Don’t throw the world’s most beloved object away. That’s my favorite!”
It doesn’t matter that whatever the world’s most beloved object is, it hasn’t seen the light of day for over 6 months because it has been stuck at the bottom of a pile of toys that have been shoved under a dresser. It [...]

I sit at the computer working on school assignments. This quarter I will be writing a full-length script, a short story (which will be substantially revised prior to the end of the quarter), and a paper on Rex Stout, as well as reading my classmates’ scripts and short stories and writing review/response letters. [...]

In my opinion the biggest challenge in dealing with a child with high-functioning autism is socialization. I worry a lot about how Breydon interacts with his peers and whether or not they will accept him, his fixations, and his quirky mannerisms. So far things have gone well – according to his teacher his [...]