hotel room 2

our hotel room

Molly outside

Dirty kids

Our overnight away was awesome!

We had our first overnight stay alone since Parker has been born. It was heaven. This is our room: http://www.bwbayshoreinn.com/accomodations.html It was even nicer than I thought it would be. We went out to dinner, did some shopping and just had a good time together. It was so nice. I hope we can do it again sometime later in the year. The kids did great with the respite worker and everyone had a great time! It was awesome! I loved the way the room looked so much that I had to go out and buy a new bedspread. I think I'm going to totally change my room. I want it to look more relaxing and nice. Now how can I slip in that fireplace and jacuzzi, lol.

We are having our first respite overnight

We've never been away from Parker overnight. I know it will be fine though. I'm excited but I have a lot of cleaning to do. I want the house to be really clean today when the respite worker comes.

Things have changed..

We are not moving right now. We can't afford it. Our van broke down on Wednesday and we can't afford to fix it. It was the head gasket. Now we are trying to figure out what to do. I don't want to stay where we are, but this would not be a great time to move. I just am going to have to think positive and think that these things happen for a reason. I'm going to have to trust in God and know that he will provide. It's going to be hard to have only one car for a while. I can't even drive Bobby's at the moment because it's a stick shift. I hope to learn but I wouldn't be able to drive it much anyways. He works a 25 minutes away and I am not driving him to work at 4:30 am. Parker is staying home today with me. I can't get him to school. For the next two weeks of school my mom is going to loan me her car. I don't want him missing that much school. As for my college in the fall and what school Parker goes to, I'm just going to have faith in God and pray that things will work out. It's funny, I kind of have a peace about everything anyways.

Do you tell them?

We are planning on moving in June. We are looking for a place right now. Do you tell perspective landlords that your child has autism? Would that turn them off? We have a place we like, but they have a maintenance person who mows the lawn. Parker is deathly afraid of lawnmowers. I would like to know when this person is going to mow so I can get Parker out of the house. How do I ask these perspective landlords without throwing them off by saying Parker has autism. People that don't know about autism can be afraid of it, or I mean a person with autism. I'd feel like I had to sell Parker to them. I'm not sure what to do.