Did you know that peacocks don’t grow their feathers until about the age of 3? I found this fact interesting. It’s around that age when our son really started standing out from a crowd with his happy noises, flappy hands and jumping bean legs. It got him noticed. It made him stand out from all ...
1) Things I thought were important before I had him — really aren’t. 2) After even the hardest day, watching him sleep melts my heart. 3) There isn’t any better feeling than when he spontaneously reaches to hold my hand. 4) There isn’t any worse feeling than when he is hurting and cannot tell ...
“I still want more…” After receiving Eric’s autism diagnosis, I always wished I had a crystal ball to help me see where he would be in 10 years. Well, almost 10 years later….here we are: Then// he spoke only a few words and grunted and pointed a lot to communicate. Now // he has A ...
So… I like to think I’m a very optimistic person. Look for the silver lining. Make lemonade out of lemons. Dance in the rain…. you get the idea. But recently, my daughter pointed out how I had been focusing on the negative. If you missed it, “Sister Bacon” (aka Anna) did a “facebook live” interview ...
I took Eric to one of his favorite places today that’s about an hour away. About 10 minutes after I got on the road I realized I was never going to make it all the way there without stopping for a bathroom break (too much water after my morning workout!). I immediately started stressing out ...
Recently I took Eric to a local indoor water park for a few hours. He loved it. I had a few very interesting social observations. One of the most obvious was how we, the parents of special needs kids, never miss a moment in our kids lives. We are ever present, hyper vigilant, (over bearing ...
Last month Mr. Bacon and I were blessed to be able to go away on vacation without the kids. (Thank you Grandma and Pop Pop). We needed the break. REALLY needed the break. We have been to this place before with the kids back in 2012. So I found myself “seeing” the kids in different ...
I’ll admit I’ve always hoped that Eric would “blend in” to the crowd; conform to publicly acceptable behaviors. It’s taken me many, many years to be OK with his noises and quirky movements that are an extension of his communication abilities. Last week in BJ’s…we both had a breakthrough. As I was packing up the ...
It’s been 9 days since it happened. Somehow the emotional scars seem to heal quicker than the physical scars. We left the local aquarium because Eric started screaming really loud. After sitting in the car seeing if he would settle down enough for us to go back in, I decided to head home – and ...
This past weekend, we hauled all the Christmas decorations down from the attic. To be honest, I dread doing it every year. I wasn’t always like that- but somehow along the way, I’ve lost my Christmas magic. Our daughter was so excited to do it, that we took advantage of the long holiday weekend and ...
