I do not think I will ever grow tired of discovering the things that Ollie loves to do. He sees the world in such a different way than I do. My mind is off in 50 different directions at any given moment, while his…well let’s just say he is a “one thing at a time” […]

Learning is something that we can do by going to school, watching a YouTube “How To” video, or…just living. Ollie has taught me, daily, that we don’t all see things the same or do things in the same way–and there’s not a darn thing wrong with that. 🙂 A few years ago, we were going […]

I don’t know everything. I know, I know, it shocked me too!! 😉 “When, exactly, is dad coming to pick me up?” “When are we leaving?” “When will the oven be ready?” and the infamous: “Why do I have to wear a helmet?” I have to keep telling myself: Concrete. Concrete. Concrete. Poor Ollie has […]

This is post I made few years back…the incident I wrote about made such a huge, huge, impact on our family, and I wanted to share this with other parents that are at their wit’s end. I’m not saying this is the only solution, I am saying that there are more options for us than […]

Musician Paul Thorn has a song entitled, “Everybody Looks Good at the Starting Line,” that I sing to myself every once in a while. I sing “to myself,” because even I can’t stand the sound of my “sing out loud” voice. I tend to do this when I get overly ambitious and decide to go […]

If you click the Menu box above, you will see a link that brings you to a site that explains many of the spectrum associated acronyms. I wish I had access to this when Ollie was first diagnosed, as the myriad of terms was almost as confusing as the diagnosis, itself. I will put as […]

I think one of the reasons it’s taken nearly 7 years to finally get this site up and running, is because when I am in the middle of something, I cannot see. It has taken this long to gain appreciation and perspective for just how hard Ollie has worked and the progress he’s made. Time […]

Writing about whatever is going on in my life is something I’ve done forever. Over the years, Facebook has been my “diary,” so to speak. So every once in a while, I will add snippets and posts of what I wrote, and when I wrote it. Memories have a funny way of getting clouded…either darker […]

I don’t know how long it had been going on before I noticed. I was working with a speech therapist who was teaching Ollie to communicate using sign language, (he was born with an unrelated condition that required therapy to help him.) I was speaking to the therapist, when I saw him pick up a […]