So last night, after talking about our exercise bike last week in Surprise, Surprise, my oldest actually jumped on it again. He started talking about how the bars and seat were too low. Being the good father that I try to be, fortunately I was able to adjust both of them. Now I’m curious to see if he gets back on it again.
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Autism Librarian
So when I was at the grocery store yesterday afternoon, I ran into a friend of my oldest son. They went to high school together. I use to run into him once in a while when he worked at a local grocery store I would stop by on my way home from work. He was a bagger, just like my son was. Turns out now he’s working at a warehouse, just like my son. Funny how seeing him made me feel better.
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So the other day, my oldest called me after he got off work to say his mom wasn’t there to pick him up. Of course I started to get ready to go pick him up but, then he sent me a text saying his mom was there. I don’t know if I knew he knew how to text, so it was nice to know that he does.
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Something my oldest son says when he’s doing things like, when he’s putting the clean dishes away after I wash them at night.
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It feels like forever since we lost Ceasar, our cat and I have to say, I think my oldest and I really miss having a cat. That said, I found this article the other day entitled “Do Cats Really Love Us?” by Ed Cara over at the Gizmodo. Maybe it’s a sign. Here’s hoping.
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I had to laugh the other day as I knocked my youngest sons clothes off the couch. Usually it’s my oldest who does that and so I tend to tease him a bit. Well, the other day when we were heading out the door, I knocked them off and of course, he picked them right up and put them back on the couch. Then he teased me a little.
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Autism Librarian
So one of the hardest things for my oldest to do is change his bed sheets. In part, because of the number of stuff animals he has on his bed and the other part, putting his clean sheets back on his bed. So this time, I simply asked him numerous times if I could help him put them on and eventually, he said okay. I just had to be patient. Just like with life.
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Autism Librarian
So today after I got off work, I went to a store called the House of Denmark with my mom to help her get a chair she really wanted. After getting it into her car, my mom thought that maybe we would need some help getting it into her condo, so I decided to volunteer my oldest. What I ended up doing was picking him up from work and then telling him after we got the chair into my mom’s house, we wold go get some ice cream. Works every time.
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Autism Librarian
So the other day when my oldest and I were picking up trash as we were walking into the grocery store, he reminded me of when I took he and his siblings out to pick up trash in our neighborhood. If I remember right, it was a project one of them needed to do for school. That’s a really nice memory.
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Autism Librarian
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the new(ish) exercise bike my oldest son and I picked up and how I hoped he might start riding it in my recent post Surprise, Well, yesterday he turned around and surprised me when he told me that he rode it just the other day. Wow!
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Autism Librarian
