In So Many Words

Anyone out there as stressed out as I am? I know I have been AWOL this week online – it’s just been one of those times when you have to step back from everything for a little bit. I have had something planned every morning this week, which makes it hectic but also forces me to get away from the house and the computer and interact face-to-face with other people.

Yesterday we had the pleasure of visiting with one of my son’s former support people; she is doing very well in her new job and it is so nice to have the relationship continue as a friendship. This morning we are going to meet another friend and her two boys at the play area in the mall – something we have been trying to plan for months!

If you really want to hear more about how I have been feeling lately, I poured it all out over at 5 Minutes for Special Needs.

Okay, I’m going to get some chocolate now – have a great Friday everybody!

Well, no memes this weekend; sorry Sam and Jen. I only got to turn the computer on for about 15 minutes yesterday and today is pretty busy as well, with soccer and a birthday party (for which we still need to buy a present!). In fact, I think I may take a break from memes for a while; I have too many deadlines in other areas of my life to have them here too.

This has actually been a pretty good week, but since I’m feeling a bit stressed out today, I can’t really put my thoughts together to write about it. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

To all who stopped by while I was away at the DAN! conference this weekend, I will be back very soon. The hotel, which had advertised a free broadband connection, did not have one that could actually connect with anything, so the extra trip to borrow a laptop from a friend was in vain.

I was also kept up Friday night until after 2:30 am due to a group of loud young men in a nearby room – although I complained to the desk, they were unable (unwilling?) to really make a difference, and so I attended the conference and drove home last night on very little sleep. To top it off, I realized the in-room hair dryer didn’t work about 10 minutes before I had to leave for the conference!

Regardless of all that, I learned lots of great information and saw Jenny McCarthy from the second row – pretty cool! I also have several days worth of autism resources to post and will definitely do so, but we have had a family crisis here that needs to be dealt with, so it will probably not get done today. Also, I just learned that my grandmother (age 94) is in the hospital with the flu and would appreciate prayer from those of you who do so.

Thanks everyone.

I am so excited. I can hardly believe this has all worked out, but I am going to be attending 2 days of the DAN! conference in Cherry Hill, NJ tomorrow and Saturday. I had really wanted to go but couldn’t afford it, plus I know they will eventually have most of the sessions on their website as videos.

Well, yesterday morning an email came around that one of the exhibitors for the conference, Kirkman Labs, was looking for parent volunteers and would pay their registration for the conference. When I talked to the person in charge, she said they still needed someone for Friday and I could attend the sessions in between helping at the booth (just missing the first and last few minutes of each one).

By limiting my hotel stay to one night instead of two, we are able to pay my way to attend on Saturday as well, so I will be leaving at the oh-so-early-for-me hour of 5am to get there in time tomorrow morning and coming home Saturday night. Praise God that my husband was on board with the idea right away, my boss let me have the day off, I found someone to pick up the Little Guy from daycare and watch him until my husband gets off work, and another friend loaned me her laptop so I can type up my notes and hopefully get online tomorrow evening!!

Even though it will be a couple of long days and pretty tiring, I’m sure, it will also be nice to be learning a lot and meeting new people (hmm, that sounds a lot like when I started blogging!).