Here’s a quick blast from the past. Well, a year ago anyway. We’re getting a lot of wet and overcast days with a sunny break for a day or two, and it’s pumpkin time again. The ADHD medicine trial we did a year ago went nowhere, so although my son lives with attention challenges, they’re not remedied with medicine. Please enjoy the photos of one of my favorite times of year!
It’s been quite a while, I know. Life has been… well, how can I put it? It’s been a lot of putting one foot in front of the other, with an occasional pause. And moving forward again. Are things running as smoothly as I’d like? Absolutely not. Are there still issues and kinks to be worked out? Yup. Such is life when being changed from the inside out.
On the parenting front, Little Man will be sixteen in less than a month. I can barely believe it! Homeschooling is still happening: it’s slow going, but it’s going. We’ve found a medicine that helps keep panic attacks at bay, and began a second medication trial to address ADHD: a revisit to an ADHD trial we did six years ago when he wasn’t taking anything for anxiety. A trial that ended badly, so quite honestly, if things don’t go well with the…
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Life Is A Journey... Not A Guided Tour 
You have come so far on this journey–and I know it’s far from over–but you make such a difference in your son’s life. The Universe knew what it was doing when it put you two together.
Thanks Kris. Really appreciate the validation this morning. Once when I sat with a local intuitive, she saw that my son and I had another life together where I was an autistic boy and my son was my mother then. Apparently, as my mother, he was fully supportive of me and my fascination for bugs. So we’ve done this dance before, just switched roles.
That does not surprise me at all.
Time travel is fun, kids!