Autism Mom's Grattitude List

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for this song,Be Still, by The Killers.  I was driving home from getting my son's prescription last n...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for pediatric dentistry.  The dental aspect of autism is especially hard for me. My kids are not so good...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for the zoo. We have zoo passes for the kids, and one great thing about the zoo is that if your child i...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for any new words that come out of my kids' mouths.  Caiti and Jason are "nonverbal."  The...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for my sewing machine.  It took me a while to like it cause I didn't get how to work it, everything ...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for cameras that have the ability to switch the view finder to face you.  This is because my kids thi...

As an autism mom, today I'm grateful for the miraculous event of all three children napping at the same time ( not to mention Dougie). ...

As an autism mom, and after almost 10 years being married, having kids, not having pets, and being happy about it, I actually am surprise...

As an autism mom, I am grateful for the personal insight/revelation I can receive when I actually take the time to stop and listen.  I had ...

As an autism mom, I am grateful that God gave me a mellow President's Day. I was expecting it to be torturous, hectic and crazy, and i...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for resources out there to address the serious subject of appropriate and inappropriate touch.  I'm ...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for chewy toys.  Jason is very orally driven.  He chews on anything and everything.  Coincidentally, w...

Last Tuesday we took Caiti to see a psychiatrist who specializes in autism to address her self injury.  After a thorough assesment, he deci...

As an autism mommy, I'm grateful for the first example I had of someone on the autism spectrum, my nephew Ford.  Ford had Asperger'...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for resources out there to help deal with the not-so-pretty part of autism:  Poop Smearing.  This is som...

Today as an autism mom, I'm grateful for any autism parent who can leave me a comment with some advice.  I was wondering if I could g...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for little motivators to help me have a better attitude.  I have been rather negative lately, and I have...

January 9, 2013 To Our Wonderful Benefactors at FOCUS of San Diego: We just wanted to take this opportunity and give you such thank...

As an autism mommy, I'm grateful for my firstborn, and the person who first immersed me into this crazy world of autism, my son Gar...

Merry Christmas Everyone: This year Garrett continued his various adventures.  I think he has learned from Dora that you can explore...

So in an earlier post, I mentioned that I find emotional healing a lot of times through music.  In particular, I talked about the song, ...

As an autism mommy, I'm grateful for my beautiful kids who somehow can tell when I'm feeling sad or down.    I know that empathy an...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for the movie, "Finding Nemo."  Not only do I love it because my kids just recently discover...

As an autism mom, I'm grateful for the example of my sister Amy, who is also an autism mom.  She was my inspiration about a year ago,...