Breakfast at Charly’s

In a rather large nutshell

This is the fourth time I’ve erased and started over. Why a simple blog entry is so hard to start today is beyond me.
I’ve been really tired and depressed but I’m not sure exactly to what to attribute it. I don’t know why I think there has to be one sole cause for how I [...]

Yeah, yeah

Did you think you lost me? I didn’t end up blogging yesterday because I plain didn’t feel like it. I was locked out of the house for most of the day so by the time I got back in I wasn’t really in the mood to reflect or shit like that. By the time I [...]

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So is he or isn’t he?

When someone tells you that you have a child with special needs, it can be one of the hardest things to come to terms with. Your life goes from zero to 60 in one second and you’re not quite sure what happened. It takes a long time to accept that your child isn’t going to [...]

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Please! I need sleep!

I am so freaking exhausted today. This will probably be short because I’d like to collapse into bed soon. I’ll say more tomorrow when I’ve had some sleep and a re-read of my notes. I rolled into town after midnight this morning and was in bed around 1:30 am only to be up at 6:30 [...]

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Note to self: be more vain

You know how your mother tells you to always have on clean underwear in case you get run over? Or how about the rule that says the minute you go out looking your absolute worst is when you see your husband’s high school sweetheart or that girl you hated in AP English your senior year? [...]

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I’m not well

Just a quick entry because I feel horrible. It started yesterday around this time and just got worse. I was falling asleep sitting up and I shoved myself through the day but was in bed by 8:30 last night after I wasn’t even able to sit in front of the laptop without falling dead asleep. [...]

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Make it stop!

The last couple of days have been enough to drive me batty. I won’t get into too much fine detail but I’ve had to deal with way more bodily fluids than any mother should be subjected to. Last night, as I was getting ready to go to bed, it started. Iz was suddenly standing in [...]

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Splendid days

I’ve been a busy bee for the past few days. Monday I attended a wonderful photography workshop put on by Special Kids Photography of America about photographing children with special needs and the night before I went out to dinner with a bunch of people who were attending the workshop who had just arrived in [...]

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Father-in-law to the rescue!

Last Wednesday I wasn’t sure if Gracie’s morning violin class ended that day or if she had another week left so I told my father-in-law that we might not need him anymore this year. He said that he’d come anyway to walk the kids to school but since we hadn’t talked about it since, it [...]

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The mask

I’m happy (I guess) to report that I actually kept that damn thing on for the entire night last night. That would be the first time since I got it. Up until now, somehow, I’ve ripped it off in the middle of the night, every night, without any recollection. Maybe it’s because last night was [...]