A Little Chaos Theory

Recently I blogged about a situation taking place in Florida, where a kindergarten teacher had her class “vote” a child who is being tested for Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) out of the class.
To date, the teacher – Ms. Wendy Portillo – appears to still believe that she did nothing wrong, although she has been reassigned [...]

If you’ve noticed that recently I’ve been a lot tenser than I was previously, you’re right. Part of it is the uncertainty about where we’re moving, but there have been other things going on as well. You see, I’ve talked a certain amount about Breydon’s autism, but my family is actually affected by [...]

The term is winding down and I’m slammed with school assignments.  I haven’t forgotten about my blog, but time is limited.
I’ll try to post here and there, but I probably won’t be around a lot for a couple of weeks.

On the Blog Thinking in Metaphors a story appears about a teacher who deliberately led her class in ostracizing a child who was being evaluated for being ASD.  At the bottom of the article information appears on who can be written about allowing the teacher to continue working in a classroom.
I worry about Breydon being [...]

Until I ingest caffeine each morning, coherence is almost impossible to find (and highly overrated). The kids have gotten used to the chorus of “huh?” “what?” “I don’t understand” that emerges from my mouth when I’m first out of bed.
This morning Roegen came running up to me yelling “Dinosaur ate my foot! Naughty [...]

I like to plan ahead. It’s a genetic defect – my dad plans vacations so that he knows which hotels he will stop at each night. Scott says that Dad even plans for potty breaks on road trips – and that’s not far from the truth. So when I say that the [...]

Sometimes I wonder if I make things more difficult for myself than they should be. I tend to internalize things – wondering if only I worked harder on this or had a little better foresight about that or been a little less impulsive about the other thing then maybe something different would have happened [...]

The stress from the multiple irons that I have in the fire are getting to me.  Actually, it’s wearing on our entire family.
So, because my family is my first priority, we’re leaving for the beach and won’t be back until late tomorrow night.  We hope that it will allow us to recharge and reconnect.
If anyone [...]

As of today we have no clue where we’ll end up moving.  Things that seemed very positive a week or so ago now seem about as probable as my climbing Mt. Hood this week.
Scott has officially heard “no” about three positions.  There are others that no longer show that the position is open that we’ve [...]

Jude and Roegen visited the doctor today.  Jude has had this cold sore outbreak that just isn’t going away like it should, and Roegen was overdue for his two year well-child checkup.
First, my kids are tiny.  They weighed in at 25.4 pounds (Roegen, 26 1/2 months) and 35.2 pounds (Jude, 3 months shy of 5 [...]