There's this woman, a wife of a co-worker. I was talking to her the other day about the kids starting school. Her son has some medical issues and developmental delays, and is in a special-needs preschool class. We were talking about therapies our kids receive, and I told her that one day recently Henry piped up "I had OT today!"
That statement kind of set me back. It somehow made me sad that my kid gets special services and talks about them. Not that he should be ashamed of it, but more like I thought he didn't know what OT and PT and speech and APE were- that he would just think they were part of every kid's school day. But it turns out that he knows that OT is called OT. Huh.
So I told her that it kind of freaked me out that Henry said this, and she replied, "oh, really. That doesn't bother me at all. I have no problem with that. T knows which teachers work on which therapies- I think it's great."
This woman is kind of like that all the time, about any subject- so it's not surprising that she said this. But still it pissed me off. Sorry that I'm not as FINE with my kid's special needs as you are, perfect mom!
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Here are a couple cool pictures from that trip to the aquarium:
This shark was swimming over our heads!
Here's what I see when I try to read my blogs on the computer at home:
We made banana bread a couple weekends ago- one of our favorite things to do, and both boys can be helpers. I have no idea why Henry had to lift his shirt up right at that moment?
I gotta tell you this before I forget: last night I was getting ready to read with Henry in his bed. I said "you know what?" (this is a little game we play- we've said it so many times that he knows we are going to say "I love you") and he replied "I love you too."
Then I said "I love you even more than that. I love you so much."
Henry held my hand, looked into my eyes, and shouted "please don't cry!"
I am quite the crier, but actually had no tears in my eyes at that moment- didn't feel any coming on. My voice wasn't quivering or anything. I don't think I've ever started crying while expressing my love to Henry. I don't know where his exclamation came from! Unless it was something he's seen in a movie or tv show.
(Here's another thing that irritates me: I've been trying all day to make spaces in between these lines above, but they will not take. Blogger is trying to drive me crazy.)
6 comments:
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my bloglines no longer picks up when you have posted something now. I re-submitted your blog yesterday and it still did not pick up. good thing I was thinking of you and decided to check in on your blog. I think you were being too hard on yourself on your previous post. You are a great mom to your 3 kids! I like that you are honest and will admit things like the fact that Henry shouting out that he has OT bothers you. We are all human and entitled to feel what we do. Nobody is perfect.
Like the cool shark pictures!
Mamaroo
Technology is always good for a gripe!
Charlie says "go OT" (sounds more like "Odie" as in that dog in Garfield......).
No hard feelings but anytime someone starts a response with "oh really" I feel like I've put my foot in my mouth and ought to slink off......Good for your for saying here what you think!
Gretchen it may take me a week or so to leave this comment because my husband has been "upgrading" our comuter again, installing this and that, and now it hiccups and stalls out all over the place!! I'm sure the new Blogger in Beta isn't helping either.
It kind of caught me off guard the first time Owen asked if he had OT.
Your banana bread making buddies are too cute!
I'm having the same problem with Bloglines not picking up your new posts. I've been resisting the temptation to try out the beta Blogger... maybe I should continue holding off.
I have no idea if Bud thinks that his school day is just like everyone else's. I'm not sure it's ever occurred to him to compare. And now that I think about it, I don't know if they ever use the "proper" terms (like OT, speech, etc.) at school, or if they just call them "specials."
What's APE? (I should probably know this, right? Sometimes the acronyms make my head swim.)
Just a thought, since you weren't close to tears during that conversation... could Henry have seen a tv show with a scene in which someone said "I love you so much. Please don't cry."? If I heard Bud say that, I'd be sure he lifted it from something.
Sometimes my teen-with-Aspergers will get depressed and say, "I wish I didn't have special needs." There's no answer to that one.
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