Sunday Shortcut PWYC

[Twins' Mom]

LOL RR. I had to google him! She hasn’t taken anymore potshots at me so the urge to snark is settling down.

I talked to dd, she wants to borrow my car again tomorrow.

Market futures plunged tonight. Will be a rough day tomorrow, I’m not sure my dh wants to go to work in the am.

[lucylee]

I know! I know! I've seen videos of the Cass Walker show!
(I know who Twins' famous person is too!)
Glad the snarky person let up on you, Twins. People CAN get sooo... snarky... online. I accidentally got into an argument with a cousin, without even realizing what I was walking into. Shaking my head.

Harmony -- quiet is good. You and Mr. Harmony just need all the quiet time you can get to recuperate. Hope things go well at the doctor tomorrow.

LadyM -- so glad you had a nice visit at the party.

Blessed -- WTG!!! You are getting so much done! Glad your aunt is doing better and has good help!

Must share something dgs said last night:
"There are two kinds of people: People I like, and people I haven't met."
He said he thought that up himself. Sounds like Will Rogers to me. But whatever -- I share that to say, even though he has never had a real playdate or had anyone that he has spent any friendship time with outside of school and organized group activities, he does seem totally happy and one of the baseball mothers told me at practice Friday night, "(Her son) is just crazy about (dgs). He talks about him all the time!" (They have been in the same class since kindergarten and are now on the same baseball team.)
The thing is, I know dgs IS "different" in some ways but I wish ddil wasn't so attached to the "autism" label. She said she was telling the mom at the skating party (my former student, who hopes to become a special ed teacher, actually) that dgs is autistic. The other mom said, "Well, he's out there skating... he looks like he's doing fine..." and ddil said, "Oh, he IS very high-functioning," but... the thing is, I was reading a FB post about a non-verbal autistic child, and I have a friend whose child is non-verbal -- actually I know personally at least four people whose children are non-verbal -- and I almost feel guilty for claiming that dgs is even anywhere on the "spectrum" with children with that kind of struggle. It just breaks my heart for their families... to even imagine not being able to carry on a conversation with your child.
I told dgs last night, "You know I tell people all the time how funny it is that I worried you weren't going to talk, and that you haven't closed your mouth since you started? Well, that is just a joke! I LOVE that you talk to me all the time like you do. I enjoy talking to you more than almost anything I can think of that I ever do! I want you to always tell me everything!"
DGS just said, "Yes, I know." Then he asked what else I enjoyed doing. I said, "Sleeping." He said, "Everybody does that!"
Do you know what I mean, Rose? Elizabeth? LadyM? * any of you who have dealt with kids with "special needs"? I know dgs has his problems, and they may become more pronounced as he grows older -- he doesn't always understand how to (or even want to) socialize with others, and his interests are probably much much different than most of his peers, and of course, we have the chewing/hair-pulling/etc issues... but OTOH, he is just such a HUGE blessing and so much fun to be with. He really has a good sense of humor and he is developing more empathy for others. Last night ddil was telling us about tripping and hurting her ankle, and dgs looked up from his video game and said, "I'm sorry you hurt yourself."
I don't know what I'm trying to say. I just don't want to appear that we are "using" the label, for whatever reason. So many people have it sooo, sooo much worse.

[Nancy]

I rested today, this afternoon I finished kniting a dish cloth.
Glad I got the time to regroup and think.
Breasfast plans include neutrigrain bar tomorrow.