Posts Tagged "Erin"
Happy Valentine’s Day
We don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day, just because Michael makes sure to tell me every day that he loves me, and I do the same. It’s not a once-a-year type thing. You should celebrate your love for the people in your life every day. While some of the people I love are so very far away, they might fall by the wayside now and again, I try to let them know at other times of the year. I feel like Valentine’s is so forced – it’s something you are suppose to do. Michael made me a cute card and put it on my keyboard after I fell asleep last night. I didn’t get him a card this year. We are going out to dinner tomorrow night (and getting dressed up too!) and Eshiva picked out a cake that we’ll have tonight.
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I haven’t blogged in a while. My blog is more like a journal for me anyway. This is worthy of blogging though.
Eshiva just came up to me with a picture of Erin that is in a red heart frame.
She told me “Mommy, this is my love”
I asked if she knew who that was (of course not) and I told her.
She said “I love her, can I put this on the piano?”
I said of course. She’s carrying it around telling everyone she loves her, this is part of my love too. She’s a part of my family.
Malachai is telling her that she (Erin) is dead, and two people in our family are dead.
Eshiva is telling him she isn’t dead, she is a part of our family. T
They are going back and forth. It’s cute.
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Eshiva is named for Erin (for those who don’t know). She died in 03, Shivie never knew her (obviously) – I don’t know that Malachai even remembers her.
She just came up to me to tell me Erin is dead, but we love her and she is still a part of our family and we have a picture of her when she was alive.
Read MoreAGE OF AUTISM: MMR: It’s ALL or NOTHING! Say goodbye to choice.
AGE OF AUTISM: MMR: It’s ALL or NOTHING! Say goodbye to choice..
Your choice to work with your pediatrician on safer vaccine schedule has just received a very large blow. Merck and Co. has decided to take away your option of separating the MMR, instead of getting the whole shebang at once. Forget those who may be predisposed to not handling 3 viruses at once; you know the weak, the infant who may need a bit more time. What if they are unable to take one of the viruses due to allergy of an ingredient, but have decided to go ahead with one or both of the others? Well too bad, allergy or not you have lost your right to choose. It’s now, all or nothing.
Merck has removed the option to split the MMR into it’s three components. Now you get all three at once, or none at all.
I’ve bitched and moaned about vaccines before. I don’t feel like doing it now. I just wonder, why remove a parents choice to get 2 out of 3 or 1 out of 3 in the belief they will at least do that? I mean, looking at it from a vaccinating parent point of view? I am not a vaccinating parent. I have an autistic child. I stand behind my decision with feet firmly planted in position.
What if I was the parent of a child with life threatening allergies? What if my child was alleric to product B but not A and C? I am fucked out of luck because I wont risk their life delivering A, B and C. Aren’t A and C better than nothing?
I just don’t understand. I am the last person to push vaccines, but I am the first to acknowledge the good they have done for us as a people in the past, why take away choices in the future?
Read MoreAutism can’t tear twin brothers apart – St. Petersburg Times
Autism can’t tear twin brothers apart – St. Petersburg Times.
I read this and started crying. I don’t know if everyone will/would, but stories like this always make me cry. I always see myself in them. I think all siblings of special needs children are like this (or I’ve never met one who wasn’t). It’s almost the same as a parent/child relationship, but it’s different too. I would have given my arm for my sister to be normal. I would have done anything. I used to tell my gram to rub her legs, so she could walk. I wanted to be a therapist when I grew up. I took care of her, I loved her, and I defended her to strangers all the time. A pierce of me died when she did, and it’s a piece I notice missing all the time. A huge piece of her grew in me, and I know it’s there every day when I interact with my own children.
I feel for this little boy. He has no idea. His entire life is already different from his peers, and it isn’t better and it isn’t worse, but it is most definitely different. He will grow up knowing things that I wish we could instill in every child in the world. He will grow up a little faster, perhaps he already has, and he will grow up a little slower, because that’s just how it is. I wish him and his brother the very best.
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It’s secret swap time! Yay!
I’m doing our secret swap again this year, so here is my all about me post for this year. It’s pretty much the same one from last year, and the year before.
What I am… I am a mom, a daughter, a sister, a wife, and all the things those roles define. I act as an accountant, a chef (gourmet and diner varieties), a maid, a washing woman, seamstress, personal shopper, and any other menial household task you can think of. I am also a taxi service on occasion as well as a nurse.
Now that I have (somewhat) defined my role, here is who I am (on this day)… I haven’t knitted in ages, so please, no yarn. I like reading, but I am picky. I am a web and graphic designer by trade, and I do that in my spare time. I co-own and operate Punky Moms, the rockin’est (is that a word? It is now!) parenting forum out there. I spend way more time there than is probably healthy, but I seriously love it and couldn’t think of a better way to spend my spare time. And all my other time. And time that doesn’t exist yet. I like to think I can sew and do all sorts of other crafty things, but in reality, there isn’t any time left over for it. I am kinda-sorta learning to tattoo, but I seem to be out of time and a cheering section.
I have lots of tattoos and big ears. My lobes are stretched to 3/4 of an inch, my double conches are an 8g, my tragii are a 10g and my helixes are at a 2G. I’ve had my navel pierced since I was 14 and yes it’s still there. Everything else I’ve removed.
I have a general wishlist posted here: http://quirkymom.com/wishful/
I am a stay at home mom.
I live in South Florida, where it’s hot all the time, but I can’t think of anyplace better to live. I grew up in MD but I don’t want to move back.
Hm… I can’t think of anything else right now. If my secret pal wants to know anything in particular, just drop me an email!
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