What Day Is It?

No, really. 

Thomas decided last Friday that he wasn’t going to Kindergarten anymore, so long as there is the chance of another fire drill . 

It was during school the preceding Thursday that the teacher announced they would be having this drill.  The immediate result was that Thomas started screaming and covering his ears before the drill could even begin.  This began a chain reaction among the small people in his class, who immediately assumed by my son’s reaction that this “fire drill” must indeed be the end of them all.  According to Mrs. D., chaos was the end result. 

So only seven days into his public school career, Thomas feigned illness on Friday afternoon, thus duping his mother in this particular way for the first time. 

My goodness, what a precocious child. 

The sounds of flushing toilets and fire drills are just some of the themes dominating the conversations of this mom to a child with Asperger’s.  I’m sure they aren’t far off the mark for your usual neuro-typical child, it’s just the intensity of his devotion to these anxieties that probably sets him apart.

Thank the Lord it didn’t seem to phase him when the substitute bus driver forgot to bring him home on Tuesday!  If it had, I’m not sure it would have been so easy to urge his returning to the pursuit of his education.  I really would hate to see him quit before the end of the second full week.  Of half-day kindergarten.  Sigh.

Many Reasons For Not Blogging Lately

1.  Thomas started kindergarten last week, and we’ve been adjusting to our new schedule.

2.  The kids love their computer games.  Especially Ryan.  He doesn’t give me a turn.

3.  I’m training to walk a half-marathon with my husband and sister at the end of November. 

4.  I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately.

5.  I’ve been trying to go to bed at a decent hour every night.  This means missing all my favorite TV shows too, but see #3.  This is a big part of that.

6.  There are two three short people trying to talk to me right now. 

But I have made a little time for reading my favorite blogs, which is more fun anyway. 

Here’s a photo from our vacation last month.  That’s Ry standing on the foggy beach: