{"id":191,"date":"2013-01-15T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/?p=191"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:49:49","slug":"too-much-good-stuff-overflowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/15\/too-much-good-stuff-overflowing\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Good Stuff, Overflowing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cake<\/a>Here’s the perfect visual metaphor for my life – a cake so brimming with goodness\u00a0that it overflows, browns too fast,\u00a0blackens the oven and\u00a0nearly sets off the smoke alarm – yet creates\u00a0sweetness that lingers.<\/p>\n

Too many ingredients- too many stories to tell – too little time!\u00a0 The above photo was from 10 days ago, before we entered yet another rapid-rise period where\u00a0too much\u00a0had to be done at once.\u00a0 The boys started back to school,\u00a0J. developed some lovely new bad behaviors we had to immediately address – entire rolls of toilet paper don’t flush well and tend to flood ceilings –\u00a0and we readied the typically developing now 21-year old sister\u00a0for\u00a0a semester abroad.\u00a0\u00a0There were the usual Saturday morning cakes to bake so J. could practice his bakery-related vocabulary words with his speech therapist (scrape, middle, edge, side, clean and dirty).\u00a0\u00a0 There were naked man episodes where despite our drafty old house W. persists in bolting and getting naked when he’s bored – thankfully in the bathroom or his bedroom now.\u00a0 There were malfunctioning appliances just when you needed them most (washers that don’t spin, driers that don’t dry), last-minute daughter logistics to supervise – and a rerun of “Taken” to watch two nights before the trip abroad, just so we parents could further terrorize ourselves.\u00a0 Finally one Monday morning we put the boys on the school bus, the daughter on the plane, and it was back to semi-normalcy – whatever that is.<\/p>\n

That night I did the unthinkable and watched dumb TV for an hour after our real New Year began.\u00a0 It’s been a week and I\u00a0still need more time to decompress and digest it all.\u00a0\u00a0 Yet that’s hardly doable \u00a0–\u00a0between starting new\u00a0helpers in working with the boys, knocking heads with the school district over IEPs, juggling the usual respite worker\u00a0cancellations and oh yeah, running a business on the side.\u00a0 Aren’t our lives always like that, with autism.<\/p>\n

As my 18-year olds W. and J.\u00a0travel to adulthood, their mom journeys toward a New Year of greater balance and focus, where the batter suits the size of the cake pan.\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 Sort of.\u00a0 Hopefully.\u00a0 Seriously.\u00a0 Really?<\/p>\n

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Here’s the perfect visual metaphor for my life – a cake so brimming with goodness\u00a0that it overflows, browns too fast,\u00a0blackens the oven and\u00a0nearly sets off the smoke alarm – yet creates\u00a0sweetness that lingers. Too many ingredients- too many stories to tell – too little time!\u00a0 The above photo was from 10 days ago, before we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}