Sensory Processing Disorder---much more than "my tags itch"!

A patron saint of our family turned me onto this website and this is the path we are going to pursue now for Casey.

I do not have any energy or time to commit to blogging or gosh even basic needs right now. But now we have hope for our son.

Please check it out, if you are interested. I was literally crying this morning like so many mornings, just wracking my brain with WHAT THE HELL IS W R O N G WITH HIM???? and this email popped into my inbox, suggesting this disorder and I googled it and....well now I have to go call the pediatrician and demand a referral for Occupational therapist. If they are stupid about it I will switch doctors asap.

Be thinking of my Casey and our whole family as we start the journey of discovery and adaptation after 5 years of calling this little boy "bad", and living in a circle and a society that has also called him AND our parenting "bad", we have a whole lot of healing to do.
Peace,
Joy

Happy Birthday, Charlie Linden!

Charlie had a wonderful third birthday. Literally all of our friends got together at the old house and helped to disassemble our wooden playscape, lent us a pick up truck, and came and re-built the monstrously heavy old thing in our new backyard. Charlie was extremely surprised and they have been playing on it since Saturday afternoon almost non-stop!

This is the pink cake with all the sprinkles and all the candles that he wanted. It was a great day. Thank you everyone!!!!!!

Happy Halloween!

We had a warm and lovely Halloween. Eska was a little pea-pod, Mickey was a phantom, Greta was a skeleton, Casey was a zombie firefirefighter, and Charlie was a pink bunny.