Small But Kinda Mighty

For those of you who aren’t aware, The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest online news site and also its highest circulation newspaper, is running a series of articles at the moment under the heading The Autism Project. To be honest, I haven’t been following it religiously. At the risk of sounding like Sarah Palin, my expectations [...]

  Gingerheaddad recently asked me to come up with a list of the Top 10 free apps that I would recommend for autistic kids. I said sure, but I also decided to give myself a real challenge with respect to this, so the following criteria apply to ALL of these apps: They are free on [...]

Gingerheaddad made me breakfast on Saturday morning. He made waffles using an amazing recipe he got from Multi-Testing Mommy. I love these waffles and I don’t get them very often, but what really blew the experience out of the water was topping them with Cherry Garcia ice cream. The sheer decadence! At that point I [...]

I have received two bloggy honours in two days and I am extremely grateful for both. The first was Raising Rebel Souls, who kindly nominated me for the Versatile Blogger Award. I have received this previously so check out my blogroll for the blogs I love to read and have nominated in the past. The [...]

Last night Gingerheaddad and I went to see Tosca, the opera. Neither of us had seen a live opera and both of us wanted to, so a few months ago I bought the tickets as a way for us to celebrate his birthday. Given that neither of us has infinite resources we decided to also [...]

The boys’ iPads arrived this week. I can hardly believe that they are here, it seems like a dream come true! I’ve got a special surprise planned for those who made a financial contribution to our fund but in the interim I wanted to acknowledge some individuals and developers I’ve found to be especially supportive of the boys [...]

I have a blog! It feels a little weird to be honest, but I finally caved to the peer pressure from my twitter buddies @Gingerheaddad, @ShawnDPhelps and @theekarenesq One of the things I discussed with Shawn Phelps when she and I met in person were the reasons why I should blog and what I would blog about. I gave [...]