autism is a journey: If your'e a regular here

Monday, March 3, 2008

If your'e a regular here

You'll notice I added music to my blog....thanks to my friend Kari (tarr4.blogspot.com) I added music to my blog today. Most of the songs are Jackson's favorites; which is why the variety seems eclectic. ;) So, now while your'e reading the latest Jackson posts, you can be entertained by some of his favorite tunes.

Jackson went car shopping with Dan yesterday. We're just in the looking stages to replace the 1996 Toyota Tacoma. Jackson seems to enjoy vehicle shopping and it's not so bad to take him as long as we're not test driving. When we bought the van (4 years ago). We test drove it a couple of times and during the second test drive Jackson said, "Buy this van" Which at the time was a really big deal!

1 comment:

tylerbritney said...: Love the tunes!!! :); March 3, 2008 at 5:24 PM

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from "Metaphor-the puzzle piece symbol"

Ever had one of those "ah-ha" moments? I'm driving down the road today, pondering Jackson's recent successes--boyscout camp and football camp. It occurred to me that each experience gave me back a piece of Jackson. [I'm not doing a very good job explaining this...] When we learned about Jackson's diagnosis, so many dreams were snuffed out. We no longer thought about our son becoming an athlete, a scholar, or even a friend. We thought in much smaller terms:"how many words does he have?""did he learn a new sign""is he reaching out to us?""that's playing pretend, isn't it?"Our perspective as parents permanently changed. It's like we had this complete picture of our child and autism fractured it--into a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle.Each day little by little, we get pieces of the puzzle back. It'll never be complete, never the same as we expected, but there will be parts that will come together.Like when he participated in the school music program, enjoyed boyscout camp, rode the roller coaster and attended football camp. Bit by bit, we get pieces of what we expected back.Of course, the flip side of this is all the joys we gain from Jackson that we never expected in spite of the autism, but that's another post my friends....