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Riding the wave

This has nothing to with a lot of things. It’s more about acceptance and being able to ride this wave of life. Is it hard you best believe it is. It isn’t fun most of the time. It has good days it has bad days. But they are your days non the less. Days come and go and we use muscle memory to get through them. Like sometimes there something there only physically. You train your brain and body to…

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Guardianship

Did I know at an early age that one day the time would come that I would have to go for guardianship. Sure. I knew since the time he was 3. But over those 15 years I didn’t think about it much because in my head I had years to go. Years I sure did have. But I watched them pass by slowly at times. As well as super fast at times. You know for years I had to learn things first hand. Trial and…

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It’s been a minute

It’s been a minute is an understatement to say the least. Has been intentional? I don’t think. Has it been out of laziness? I don’t think. Has it been out of motivation? Possible. Maybe I don’t know that it is reaching anyone or helping anyone. That’s probably the most. But then I think. It’s helping our story. That’s why this started, that’s why this will now continue. It’s not a fad. It’s not…

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School, birthday, life

Where to begin in last month or so…

Well school is in effect.. Zeq goes to in person Tues and Thurs. M,W,F are virtual days. Friday is a little different he has all 8 classes each Friday instead of the normal 4. It has taken some adjusting for sure. Not sure what will happen after this 9 weeks which ends on Nov 2nd. If they will stay how they are or if it will transition to more days in class…

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Remotely...doing everything

Remotely…doing everything

Happy first day of Fall!

What have we been up to? Lots.. we have new season, new school, new routine, new foods, new beverages, new experiences…

Well we are schooling remotely… sounds fun, sounds great… well sounding someway, is completely different than being that way. Zeq has started his 10th grade remotely. We are hopeful to go back “blended” sooner than later. He would like to see his…

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You name it...

You name it…

You name it we have probably done it the past few weeks.

Blood work- yep did that, during a pandemic, with no restaurants open, masks on, doctors offices closed to outside people. Yep we did it. It wasn’t pretty. I had an almost 16 year old sit on my lap while I covered his eyes all the while he was wearing a mask! But we got through it. Only cost me $10. Well worth it. Should be up to date…

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Winner winner chicken dinner...

Winner winner chicken dinner…

Or not..

Let’s say remember that chicken he wanted in the last blog post?!.. well last week I was like ok.. I’ll make it.

All seemed ok at first. Gave him small amount of mashed potatoes and more chicken. Seemed ok.

Then went downhill from there. He hates chicken.. he didnt ask for it.. i wanted him to choke on dry chicken..

Needless to say wasn’t Zeq. His voice was dramatically…

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Enter turkey and pepperoni

Just as it says..

We are back to frozen turkey meals… when I say it I mean it. Family size just turkey slices. He eats the entire thing by himself.

Then there’s pepperoni… we no longer eat ham… or biscuits…or saltines but now bowl of pepperoni and doritos for lunch.

I know reading this you probably think I am worse parent ever because that’s what I feed him. Maybe I am. But over…

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Vacuums

Yep! Just what it says. Awhile back I wrote a post about him saving his money and he was going to buy a hand held vacuum. He saved the money and bought a red one.

Well let me tell you, at all hours of the day you can hear this kid hand held vacuuming his room. Believe it to be John the clean ocd one. But he does it. Then he religiously cleans the vaccum out, while using a cleaning toothbrush,…

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Biscuits!!

I like biscuits.. you like biscuits? This week Zeq loves biscuits… he eats them with lunch, dinner, as a snack.. only with grape jelly..

Oh the ever changing menu. Different personalities have different tastes, which results in different foods. The past few days.. fried chicken and busicuts with grape jelly. Who doesn’t love either one of those?

Well it comes with special instructions.…

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Uncertain times...

Uncertain times…

These are definitely trying uncertain times. Not only for people like Zeq but everyone in general. As we sit here today we don’t know what the next few months will hold, let alone the next few days.

We will have to decide in a few weeks what we want to do about schooling. does Zeq go back? Do we homeschool? Do we remotely learn? Do we do virtual learning? These are the choices as of now.…

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New normal

Back once again…

Have we not had anything interesting to write or say… well that is not the case here for sure.

Sometimes you get caught up in life.. sometimes it isn’t about getting caught up.. sometimes it just is..  everyones routine has been disrupted and no one likes it for sure. Maybe just maybe we now know how someone like Zeq feels everyday when something changes.

Hows quarantine…

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Seasons of life

Its been a minute since the last post. We have been adjusting to our new so called life. But what no one understands is that for people like Zeq this isn’t just an adjustment… it is and will be his new normal so it is going to hard to adjust back. Having Dr apps via telephone.. or even the not know what to do when need labs for a medicine, but need that medicine (antipycotics) the dr had to fight…

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Corona, fear, no school

I’m sure in past week you have seen those words as many times as I have. I haven’t said anything this far about any of it. Today our state shut down our schools. Outrages have begun. Parents mad, kids happy, stores jam packed.

Stories have begun swirling off one week, two weeks, indefinitely and this is coming from a middle school.

You have people mad because you bought two packages of…

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We have a name, an age?!

Ladies and gentlemen after years or seeing the shadowy figure or Zeqs personalities, a light has been cast.

So this personality has came and gone for years. Couple times a week. He never ever bothers anyone. He comes he tells his team their precise instructions and goes about his day.

That has always been what we have known. No name, no age, not even a clue on a rank or position. Just “An…

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Am I behind on blogs?! Absolutely. It’s not that nothing has happened. It’s not that we suddenly lost all the personalities. It’s not that meltdowns stopped and we have an easy going life.

Nothing like that at all. We have had many many personalities come and go. Some more than others, some new and some older ones becoming less and less. We are in the final stretch before schools out for the…

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Goals not resolutions

When you think of the new year most generally many thoughts are… What is my resolution?! But why a resolution?! Show of hands to someone who has successfully stuck to a resolution? If you have made it the whole year was it just done after that?

Resolutions seem so final.. so result.. so we aren’t not doing resolutions. We are doing goals. Zeq doesn’t really think of either one as a whole.…