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My best gal pal, Hal *or* Autism can kiss my ass.
Miss Hallee turned sixteen this summer, which blows me away. How did my first-born hit sixteen? I REMEMBER sixteen like it was yesterday, however I can’t remember what I ate for breakfast or wore...
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Oh, The Wrongness of It All.
So can I tell you how unexciting my yard sale hunting was today? Of all days..it’s gorgeous, sunny and it seems like there is a yard sale on every corner. And I hit a good dozen of them, to very...
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Carmex Deal at Walgreens!
After Mark got home from work tonight, I left Hal at home with him and went out to do some coupon recon. Rite Aid and Walgreens to check on stock and upcoming sales. While I was in Walgreens, a super...
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Almost There.
When Hallee started school in 2002, high school seemed a million miles and a million years away. Light years. Eons. It’s so hard to look ahead with special needs kids, because you are so focused on...
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You Have Got To Be Kidding Me.
So a few months ago when Mark and I were talking about me starting Allyson’s Wonderland, one of his ideas was to put an Amazon store right on my site, to share with people the items that helped Hallee...
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Beat Down, Raw, Exhausted, Or…Another Day With Autism.
These past couple of weeks have been two of the worst in recent years for Hallee. There’s something going on with her, with the autism. Just when I think I’ve got that fucker beaten into submission...
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Slowly But Surely.
Since Sunday night, I see signs of Miss Hal slowly but surely acting more like herself. I don’t know what that two weeks plus from hell was about and I hope like crazy that we don’t run into the same...
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I sat here early this morning drinking my coffee and watching the news and this came on. I nearly threw up. Being the mother of a special needs child, I have had nightmares almost all of her life...
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That’s what I get for asking.
Hallee swims every week in school. Last week I sent in what she considers an incorrectly colored towel. It was green. She wanted white. Any parent of an autistic kid knows that once these kids get...
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