Tea & Thoughts

Today was Samuel's first appointment at the Kennedy Krieger Autism Institute in Baltimore with a behavioral psychologist. It went very well! Since it was the initial evaluation, most of it involved her asking me questions and me trying to explain to the best of my...

Oh man, I am SO excited! For a while now I've been searching for a tablet for Samuel to use for therapy purposes. We went to Best Buy the other night and checked out what they had, and of course they tried to sell us the iPad 2. With the cheapest available including...

We are in Indiana this week visiting Kyle's family. It's always fun spending time with Mimi, PaPaw, uncle Cory and uncle Troy. Today, we went to the opening of The Muppets movie. What a piece of nostalgia! It was a great movie. I kept waiting for one of my favorite...

I have no special revelations to share with you today. No incredibly amazing stories to show the truth of "Post tenebras, lux" (if this is your first time reading this blog and you are not fluent in Latin, that means "After darkness, light"). All I have for you today...

I finally got the pictures from the autism walk downloaded to my computer, and finally had time to look up how to post them on my blog. 🙂 Our family participated in the annual Walk Now for Autism Speaks on the National Mall for the second time this year.   ...

I love GGEAP days. They make me smile. Big time.Ever since last year when Samuel was in kindergarten, he began to get creative with his answer to the age-old parental question, "How was school today?" At first it was, "Good." He never could really tell me why it was...

Parents all over the world from every generation have shared in the high privilege of sharing in one particular delight with their children. In the beginning, an infant may first show affection and acknowlegment of a familiar face or voice by locking eyes and grinning...