Aug. 20, 2009 - It's PDD-NOS
We just got back from Riley. The school had him down for Aspergers, but the doctors at Riley say it's Pervasive Developmental Disorder - Not Otherwise Specified, or PDD-NOS. At least it wasn't a total surprise, I thought he was too social for AS anyway. Now I just have to wait for them to set us up with the therapy people. So now that we have an official diagnoses for him I feel a lot better.
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Aug. 16, 2009 - Thursday's coming...
Thursday is the day that my son gets his official medical diagnoses of Aspergers. We have him diagnosed by the school and his primary dr. but insurance requires a diagnoses from a specialty dr. Thursday's not coming fast enough. After he is diagnosed, then we can get therapy, which in some areas he needs a lot! He is very excited about homeschooling, I hope everything goes well for us. I know that I'll need a lot of patience, so I'm turning that over to God.
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Jul. 4, 2009 - The 4th of July: Good and bad
The 4th of July is very exciting for my girls. Rides and fireworks are the highlights of their day. My son, on the other hand, loves and hates today. He likes some of the rides, and the ones he really likes he doesn't want to get off of. The fireworks, he likes the lights, but not the sound. So I have him on my lap covering his ears with my hands so he doesn't freak out. I keep thinking this year may be different, but it's the same every year. All in all, today should be a pretty good day. I hope it doesn't rain, the weather said 40% chance of showers. I love the food at the carnival, but it doesn't like my kids. My girls are allergic to everything and my son won't eat anything there. I'm hoping that today is a good day for everyone.
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Jun. 27, 2009 - Busy with no help from SO
It all started last Saturday when a friend of mine came in from out of state. She wanted to meet up at the zoo, so the kids would have something fun to do. She has three kids like me, her husband was there and we had a great time, but mine decided he wanted to stay home and do yard work. I had to bring my mom along to help me with the kids, actually just my son. My son has no sense of danger and I can't handle him and the girls all by myself. I don't think it's right that I had to enlist my mom to help at the last minute, we had this planned for a week! All week he's been like this, not helping with the kids. He comes home from work and takes a shower, it's really hot here and he sweats a lot, and then he plays that STUPID NintendoDS game. I want to take a hammer to it. Well, today it's going to end. I have made plans with his sister to go to yard sales, so he's stuck with the kids all day. Now I have to go wake prince charming from his slumber.
If you got this far, thanks for reading.
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Jun. 21, 2009 - Bad day
Not the worst day, but still bad. Basically, it was not listen to any adult day. The living room was a mess all day, I gave up on cleaning around noon. The kids room is "under the beds", at least I can walk to their beds from the door. Tomorrow is clean up right day. No TV, music or playing with anything until toys are put away. They don't even have that many toys, and yet I can't see their floor half the time. John is on a bologna kick, and he will get in the fridge without asking. We put a child lock on there so he won't get too much sodium, he'd eat it all day if we let him.
My mom got an inflatable pool for the kids, but no pump. So, we have to get a pump. That's not that bad, at least they'll be more entertained outside now. They are getting tired of bean bags and horseshoes.
Well the kids are in bed, asleep, and it's only 9:30!!! I better get to bed, I'm sure they will be up before the sun. Looking forward to a better day.
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Jun. 17, 2009 - My feet hurt and I'm tired.
Not from being on them all day, but from stepping on toys while I was carrying a laundry basket. I asked my kids more than 5 times to get them up because I was coming through, and they kept playing. I didn't know what else to do so I took 75% of my kids toys away for a while. I feel bad now, but it gives me a chance to go through them and get rid of a lot. I am researching things to do for next school year, preferably places that don't have toys in their gift shops. 
Now is the bedtime fights. We start at 8 because they don't get to sleep until 10. "I'm thirsty", "I'm hungry", "I'm hot", "I'm cold", and my favorite from my oldest "My bed is too high" (she sleeps on the top bunk, 5 and 1/2 feet up). If I get to go to sleep before 10 it will be weird. It's not happening tonight, obviously. My kids have been quiet now for 10 minutes, so I'm going to check on them and hopefully go to bed.
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Jun. 13, 2009 - New at this, about me and mine.
I am a new blogger, so I don't really know how to do this. I am a mother of three, Mamie(11/2000), John(3/2004), and Bethel(5/2006). Mamie has ADHD and is on Metadate, it helps on more difficult days. She was in public school until March 2009, she has a severe peanut allergy that the school didn't take seriously enough for me. When I took her out I wondered about her reading and other skills, I didn't think that she should be passed to third grade, but that's where they were going to put her. John went to developmental pre-k and they diagnosed him with Aspergers, we are getting a medical diagnoses in August at Riley Hospital. The school wanted to put him in regular kindergarten, he disrupts a pre-k class of just 10 kids, I can only imagine how he's be in a class of 25. Bethel is normal so far, she is very bright and doing things at her age that the other two didn't. I always knew I was going to homeschool her, her skin is so sensitive that me wearing perfume and touching her gives her a rash. I wanted to homeschool Mamie from the beginning, but she had a language delay. I knew going to a developmental pre-k would help her, and it did. She also had speech therapy in first and second grade, until I took her out. John's speech improved dramatically by being in the developmental class. I feel like God has always told me to homeschool, but I just didn't listen. I'm not totally alone in my journey, my best friend, Molly, homeschools her kids as well. The hard part is she is in N.C. right now, she married a marine.
Getting to August is stressing me out right now. John has an appointment on the 20th with the Christian Sarkine Autism Treatment Center. I have read about Aspergers and I think he may have it. When the school told me they were going to evaluate him for it I didn't think much of it. The school I went to in the 7th grade told my parents I was depressed, when all I wanted was to be left alone. I was still enjoying things, but I hated school. So when his school concluded their evaluations, it didn't really do much to me, but when my family started saying that they were wondering about him then I started researching. He has a lot of the criteria for it, I think when a doctor tells me he has Aspergers it will hit me.
Charles and I have been together since December of 1999. We met at work, we were security guards. I don't really have any hobbies, I read non-fiction educational books and play some computer games in my spare time (like 10 minutes before I go to bed). I decided I needed to start writing or blogging to relieve some stress. So here I am. I probably won't be very interesting or regular about this, but at least I'm doing something other than parenting.
