{"id":399,"date":"2015-01-29T11:14:44","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2015-01-29T11:14:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T11:14:44","slug":"january-29-strength-and-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/2015\/01\/29\/january-29-strength-and-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"January 29 – Strength and Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"My New Year’s resolution was to\u00a0post a\u00a0series of daily affirmation for parents of\u00a0special needs kids.\u00a0 Here on January 29, I may be\u00a0a tad late, but I’m grateful for the “push” per earlier post to get started. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

“Strength and honor!” was the battle cry of the Roman legion in last night’s rerun of “Gladiator,” the mindless movie of the night that was on TV as J. and I did needlepoint.\u00a0 How much that resonated for me.\u00a0\u00a0 Strength – the experience certainly builds that, in spades, be it repeating the same elementary concept to kids who just\u00a0don’t get it\u00a0for the 3 millionth time, or cleaning up the grosses of bathroom messes.\u00a0\u00a0 Or tolerating those years of disrupted sleep when the kids just can’t settle down.\u00a0 Or the endless school administration hassles over getting the I (individualized) in your kid’s IEP.<\/p>\n

As for Honor – i’m mindful of just how wonderful my autistic wonderboys are, at the core.\u00a0\u00a0 Of how tremendous my staff of\u00a0skills trainers and OTs and SL\/Ps and teachers\u00a0are, in seeing capability not disability.\u00a0\u00a0 Of my ultra tolerant spouse who puts up with my weirdo sleep schedule which usually includes falling asleep on the sofa 2-3 night a week, leaving him to do the nightly toothbrush and floss.\u00a0 Of all the people I’ve met along the way who treat every human being as special, even my so obviously flawed guys (and me).<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping I can have strength and honor enough today to carry me thought- carry us all through – and help W and J to grow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My New Year’s resolution was to\u00a0post a\u00a0series of daily affirmation for parents of\u00a0special needs kids.\u00a0 Here on January 29, I may be\u00a0a tad late, but I’m grateful for the “push” per earlier post to get started. \ud83d\ude42 “Strength and honor!” was the battle cry of the Roman legion in last night’s rerun of “Gladiator,” the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}