So in a couple of weeks, I’m taking my oldest and my youngest to the Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR race, something I truly never thought I’d see. That said, over the weekend I finally got our race tickets and parking pass downloaded. I also got our rental car all ready to go. Now we just wait for them to start their engines.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
So as I try to say thank you to that mom who motivated me to start this blog, I also need to say thank you to my oldest. After all, he’s the reason I continue on this journey and he’s also part of the reason that I am who I am. I wouldn’t be here without him. Over the last few days, I come to see how much he’s grown up.
Thank you!
Autism Librarian
So when I first started this blog, I was going off the idea of someone else who was sharing her story about her son with autism. What I’ve been doing for the last few minutes is trying to see if I can re-trace my steps to find her and thank her for being a friend. She has no idea how much she has helped me. Meanwhile, I’ll keep looking.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
It’s hard to believe that come tomorrow, my oldest will be 25 years old. It’s also hard to believe that he’s spent nearly half his life with me, something I never saw coming for him or for me and as hard as it’s been at times, I wouldn’t trade this time for anything.
Happy Birthday!
Autism Librarian
So the other day I had someone like an earlier post of mine entitled “Special abilities, half way around the world” and after visiting her baseball blog, I thought I would pass it on here. The blog is entitled Sophia’s Baseball Blog.
As a young lady with autism, I wish her nothing but, the best. Sounds a little like my oldest and his love of NASCAR. In fact, he wrote a few articles for a NASCAR website back when he was in high school. I need to go back and find that website. He’s mentioned he would like to do that again.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
So while it was just my oldest and I this weekend, I did manage to get out and take some pictures when he went over to a friends house, something I definitely needed to do. Something else I really need to do is start framing some more of my pictures. Maybe I’ll just shoot for getting one framed this week and take it from there. One step at a time.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
I get the feeling this is going to be a reflective weekend. In only a couple of weeks, my youngest son will be graduating from high school. Even now, I’m thinking about it. Maybe in some ways that’s why my life has been so up and down lately, knowing that in some ways there are lots of changes coming and in other ways, there will be less.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
Thankfully they don’t happen often but, that said, when they do, it can be tough and this was one of those times. It was the middle of the afternoon when my oldest called me to tell me that, he was in the middle of trying to get the internet back up and in order to do that, it required him entering the password. Now it took a little while to figure it out and even though he got really upset, at least I was at my second job, where it’s just me in my office and I was able to help him get him through it. Looking back at the situation now, I realize it could have been worse.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
So today my oldest had a bit of a rough day at work. Somehow he managed to clog up a couple of toilets there and consequently, he called me just after I got off work to tell me he thinks he’s going to lose his job. After texting with his boss, I found out really everything is fine. He just needs to be a little more careful.
On top of that, there appear to be storms coming through tomorrow and he’s been asking to not go to work. The thing is, I think going to work today will help him get past yesterday. As far as storms go around here, we’re just going to have to wait and see. The ones we were supposed to get the other day mostly fizzled out.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
Maybe this was a day I needed but, didn’t see coming. I didn’t go to my second job because my mom and I had someone over to give our furnaces and air conditioners their yearly checkup. That said, I still managed to have a couple of hours to myself, even if I was working at home. I guess I’m still trying to figure it out.
Sincerely –
Autism Librarian
Autism Librarian 