Paper Clouds Featured Artist
Paper Clouds Apparel is selling shirts, greeting cards and 8×10 prints with our son’s designs on them! These are available from March 4-17. Paper Clouds Apparel collects artwork from individuals with special needs, and puts those designs on shirts, greeting cards & 8×10 prints, and sells them for a 2-week period. 50% of the proceeds go [...]
Making New Friends
This morning, Picasso had another tough start at church. I was frustrated and hoping to avert any possible meltdown. As I tried to figure out what his plan was, I was still able to get to him with some humor, which means he wasn’t *completely* overwhelmed…yet. After some discussion, we agreed that he could go [...]
Catching Up…Moving Ahead
We’ve had a relatively non-busy week, in terms of things we had scheduled. However, we’ve had some good things happening, too, and I wanted to highlight those. Picasso finished his picture for the Arts for Autism fundraiser we’re attending in town, on October 15th. He has a *strong* love for Sharpies (used on his bed, [...]
Monday
Good Morning! Just taking a few minutes to greet the day before preparing to make the drive to therapy. Here’s what’s up for today, for us. *Getting things packed up for therapy. While Picasso is in his session, our older son takes some schoolwork and some reading material so that the hours to & from [...]
An Atypically Typical Monday
Monday…a word that instills dread in a lot of people. I’m a moderate when it comes to Mondays. I enjoy the weekend, spending time with the family, having a lot of help from Tim, but I do not despair the start of a new week. See, in our house, routine is vitally important to one of our [...]
Pictures from Picasso
Our Picasso loves art. He always has - always has enjoyed coloring, drawing, painting, play-doh: anything that allows him to be creating! When we moved into our current home, he was almost 3 years old. It was around that same time that we were seriously wondering if he had something wrong - maybe developmental delays? [...]