MOM: Who is this child who is annoying me?

LAURANCE: Who is the woman calling me son?

MOM: Would you stop leaning on me kid?

LAURANCE: Can I play my Game Cube now?

MOM: Not before you eat?

LAURANCE: (leaning on me with all his weight) But I want to play it now.

MOM: (narrowing my gaze at him) If you keep bugging me kid, I will take it away and you won't be able to play with it at all.

LAURANCE: NO! I want to keep it!

MOM: (faciously) How about a good beating instead?

LAURANCE: (emphatically) NO! It's against the law.

MOM: Come on, it won't hurt much, and besides it builds character. I know because my mom told me so.

LAURANCE: Mom, you cut that out.

MOM: (spanish accent) Ahh, you take away my fun.

LAURANCE: (No sooner does MOM turn her back and LAURANCE reaches out and pops her on her bum.)

MOM: Laurance Donaughvan that hurt.

LAURANCE: But it builds character, that's what Granny said.

It's been awhile,...

...but we are still here. Mom's spirit is tired today . I started this blog with Laurance in hopes of reaching out to other parents and children with similar interests and challenges. I am embarrassed at the lack of attention I have given to the blog itself, and not just this one. My personal blog is waning even more (The Yo-Yo Dieters Connection). Nonetheless, Laurance has recently stepped up and expressed a desire to want to do more with the blog that we created together; therefore, in order to keep my childs spirit from spiraling downward to meet mine, I am attempting, yet again, to make the world of blogging a common household activity in our home and our lives.

It has been such a frustrating few months with Laurance graduating 5th grade and going into middle school next year. I have been talking to the school principal, guidance counselors, volunteer board members, psychologists, and in all the mayhem I neglected to contact his new teacher. Now I will have to wait until August, and I start school for yoga instructor training in July.

(AUGGHH!!!)
Could it get more frustrating?

Since Laurance is autistic I have to jump through a few more hoops than the average parent when getting him set up in a new school. Fortunately, I started jumping early on. Now, the only one left to leap through is the teachers, but, needless to say that will have to wait.

In the meantime, I have planned a fun and wet-filled vacation for us. Since we live in the Arizona desert, the wet part is the best part.

Laurance is now 11-years old, and expressing a desire to be closer to the girls. What better place to do that than the pool?