This kid is too cute!

Saw this on another blog and just had to post it! There is just something about shocking talent..love it!

Britain’s Got Talent 2009 Aidan Davis Dancing – Watch more funny videos here

Home tour

I have been meaning to post some pictures of our new place and the house happened to be semi-clean for like 10 minutes the other day so I thought I would take a few shots because I know you are dying to see! HA!

Lets start with the living room. We found this furniture on Craigslist just before me moved for super cheap! Thank You craigslist! (click to enlarge )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alternate view. The painting on the right is of the house I grew up in. My mom found it in an art gallery in downtown key west.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the dining room and yes my chairs don’t match…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course the room that is nearest to my heart, the kitchen!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok so the house wasn’t totally clean  

Master bedroom – kinda don’t like tile in the bedroom but you can’t have everything I guess. If you look closely you will see that I have not 1 but 2 bottles of wrinkle releaser, can you tell what my least favorite chore is?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading/throw all kinds of crap on it chair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jonas’ room. Made the curtain’s myself using steam a seam, not much of a seamstress!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And of course my favorite part of the tour, the backyard! I think the owner did a GREAT job with the lanscaping, we love it and we have our own mango tree which we will be picking very soon!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is my favorite TREE! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well that concludes the tour, hope you enjoyed it!

Weekly Meal Plan

Ok this week marks the beginning of operation Blizzard Beach. We are going to the Disney water parks at the end of next month which means not only do I have to wear a bathing suit but I have to wear one on a water slide and we all now how unpleasant that can be So for the next several weeks this house in on a serious diet! So I am apologizing now if the meal plans are a bit boring but I’m hoping it will all be worth it in the end!

Monday – Probably leftovers from our party on Saturday.

Tuesday – Grilled salmon and steamed vegetables

Wednesday – Chopped chicken salad – Chicken, corn, black beans, a few corn tortilla strips, cilantro, chopped romaine and lime vinaigrette dressing.

Thursday – One Dish Chicken Kielbasa Rice

Friday – Mojo marinated chicken on the grill with grilled corn on the cob.

Saturday – Leftovers

Sunday – Grilled turkey burgers (no bun) and baked asparagus.

Autism, its not what you think

This is a common saying amongst the autism community. The first time I heard it, I was immediately struck by how true this statement really IS. For me I think this statement has more meaning than the intended message. I feel like Autism is misunderstood in more ways than one. Have I confused you yet?  What I am saying is that yes many people think Autism is this awful “plague” that makes your child rock in the corner or that they have “special talents” (read here for more explanation on that) which is most likely who this saying is aimed at. I think there is a definite lack of awareness out there which can be frustrating sometimes but I also think this saying also goes for an entirely different population of people out there that think its no big deal or that it will probably go away which can be just as, if not more, frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, I think there is alot of EXCELLENT resources out there and that there is SO MUCH potential for Jonas to one day function as a typical child/adult and I think that most people just like to “stay positive” and maybe this is just the pessimist in me talking but sometimes it’s just plain hard to have a child with Autism and I don’t know if he will improve…no-one does. There are soooo many stories out there of children that were autistic and are now completely normal or are autistic and still at the age of 20 do not talk. I think the saying should be Autism its not what you think…because every child is so completely different from the next. I would love it if somebody could tell me don’t worry my son looked, talked and acted EXACTLY like yours does and now he is perfectly fine but that is not going to happen. I hope I am not coming across really negative cause that is not my intention for writing this. I actually think that this whole thought process has helped me to be more accepting of Jonas’ autism. I think it is important for me to accept Jonas for who he is right now. Not for who he may or may not become. Again, don’t get me wrong I fully intend to stay focused on his therapy and whatever else he needs but I do not want to get so obsessed with “making him normal” that I end up raising a son that thinks his mother doesn’t love him for who he is. I have said it more than once on my blog that I would love nothing more than to hear my son call me mom but if he never does I HAVE to be ok with that. Believe me its a work in progress, somedays I am faced with some harsh realizations of things I may never get to do or experience with my son that literally take my breath away and I find myself fighting back tears because it is often in public or in a social situation of some kind. I am also completely aware that some people NEED to stay focused on their child’s therapy in order to deal with their child having autism and that’s ok because that’s what works for them. However, I have always been the sort of person that doesn’t like to hope because the disappointment is to difficult to bear and in most cases that isn’t good but in this case in a weird sort of way it works because even though there will most likely be some disappointment’s along the way, Jonas will never be a disappointment to me as long as I don’t get bogged down with my ideas of who I want him to be…

 

…(sigh) that felt good. 

goodnight.

Late night productivity

Once a week I am forced to stay up way past any decent person’s bedtime (about 4 or 5am) in order to force myself to sleep during the day so that I can work through the night. I only do this once a week because I work 3 nights in a row and then go back to a somewhat normal sleep schedule. I have been wanting to blog about this experience for awhile now because I think it’s very strange and worth sharing. Mind you I am writing this very post at 4am so I apologize right now if any of it doesn’t make sense  

I think the main thing is that I’m sitting on the couch wasting time while everyone else is sleeping. Which is so weird because it honestly feels like I am sneaking around doing something I shouldn’t be doing. Like any minute my mom is going to barge in and tell me to “get to bed this instant young lady” I also feel extremely guilty because I feel like I should be doing housework or being productive in some way but unfortunately it’s THE MIDDLE OF NIGHT and I don’t think the family would appreciate me making a huge racket! And then there is the whole eating thing which is also very strange because since I will be sleeping during the day I miss out on breakfast and lunch so I have to eat something but once again cooking up a storm in the kitchen is not gonna happen so I usually just end up eating snack food which is so annoying and unsatisfying!

I have asked some of the people I work with if they find it strange but most of them don’t have families or have the ability to sleep on command so they pretty much live there lives as night owls or just cat nap all the time. Neither of these are options for me so for now I will just have to live with it until I can get enough experience to move up the ranks, which will hopefully be soon!

I will say that after a couple weeks of wasting time watching pretty much everything hulu.com had to offer, I started using the time to learn more about photography and just recently I’ve been trying to learn about css editing, which is what you use for web design. I definitely don’t plan on getting crazy with this but I’ve been wanting to give my blog a face-lift and I didn’t want to pay for it so I am training myself, hence the somewhat new look! There is hopefully more to come but I excited about what I’ve learned so far!

Over the hill…almost :)

Today is Brian’s birthday! He is getting so old, lets just say I’m not buying the black balloons this year but were not to far off!! HA! But I must say that there are times where I look at him and think that he could still pass for being in his 20’s! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wouldn’t you agree?? Well maybe late 20’s!

Happy Birthday Sweetie!

Weekly Meal Plan

Monday – Brian’s birthday so we are goin’ out!

Tuesday – Chicken kabobs on the grill – Chicken, mushrooms, peppers and small slices of corn!

Wednesday – Omelets!

Thursday – leftovers

Friday  - Baked lemon pasta - Had to throw in a liitle pioneer women since she picked me in her top ten check it out!

http://iheartfaces.blogspot.com/2008/01/week-18-top-ten-winners-adults-category.html

Saturday – We are celebrating Brian’s birthday with the family so we will be having all kinds of goodies

Sunday – Taco night – we never got around to it last week

Experimenting with a little sun flare!

Warning this post has lots of pics. I dragged my boys out the other day for some camera practice. I’ve been wanted to get better with incorporating some “sun flare” (not sure if that’s an official photography term) into my photographs Jonas wasn’t all that into it and he sorta had an accident about 1/2 hour into it and of course we had no diapers so I didn’t get as much time as I would have liked but that’s life with kids

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was kinda tough because I couldn’t get him to stay in the right spot for more than a second.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Definitely lots of room for improvement, but I had fun practicing!

For all you facebooker’s

Have you seen this? Hilarious! Facebook in reality. I’m all about the youtube clips this week for some strange reason

Wish list

Lately I have been wanting, lusting, coveting (whatever you want to call it) over stuff. I know, how shallow of me…but whatever everybody has a wish list, right? Well anyway, here’s mine.

1. Some nice patio furniture for the back yard.

2. These shoes for work.

3. A Nikon D5000 DSLR (NEVER gonna happen, but a girl can dream)

4. A Schwinn Beach Cruiser bicycle.

5. A large food processor I currently use a mini one and it DRIVES ME CRAZY!

6. A Nikon 24 – 70mm f/2.8 lens (again not gonna happen)

7. Adobe Lightroom

8. A Le Creuset Dutch Oven – I feel like I will never be a real cook until I own one

9. A pretty roman shade for my living room.

10. A Nikon 105mm f/2.8 – another lens, this is a macro lens which I think would be fun to have. Are you detecting the pattern here

Well that’s it for right now, I should have included the prices so we could all have a good laugh over how ridiculous this wish list really is but oh well, maybe next time!