Musings and What-not

Wishing you and yours a wonderful and safe holiday season! Or if you don't celebrate the holidays, just, ummm, wishing you well!  :D

So, what's a parent to do?  Christmas is creeping up on us... What can we do to ensure our children remain healthy this holiday season? Besides eating healthy, what are our other options? Do we even have any? Earlier this year, I donated about 98% of my son's toys.  Anything toxic has been banned from his room... and this house. Our home is as healthy as I can make it without going completely apey ! I already told you about HealthyCar.org in a previous post , and during a conversation with a friend today, I learned about another groovy organization. Allow me to introduce you to Healthy Toys .org ! It's another project of the Ecology Center, and it's goal is to educate consumers of the toxins harboring in children's toys and other products. Why Do We Need Healthy Toys? HealthyToys.org includes test results for more than 1,500 toys and children’s products. This site is a first step in providing parents, grandparents, and others who care about children with the info...

With heavy heart I write this post. Last night the fam and I headed over to Romano's Macaroni Grill for some good eats. As we sat in our booth, minding our business, we saw something that saddened us... You know the economy's gone down the crapper when even Santa has to get a second job! {teehee  Hope I made you smile.  This gentleman actually bleaches his beard every year for the holidays.  He also volunteers by donating & delivering gifts, dressed as Saint Nicholas, to children living in at risk communities in Tulsa!  We tipped him a fiver for letting us take his picture, and he told us he would put it towards his Christmas fund for the kiddos.  WOW!  The world truly does need more people like him in it.}

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Children are unique. Add autism to the mix, and life is even more unpredictable. Holidays aren't always celebrated in the same way. Explaining why people do what they do at certain times of the year can be a challenging task. But, our children know more than we realize.  And being the good parents that we are, we give them credit where credit is due. It's nice when someone, other than us, wants our children to have the same holiday experiences as neuro-typical children. It's nice when someone else sits back, and thinks, "Wow!  There has to be another way." It's nice when someone else finally realizes that our children matter. Well, sometimes that realization comes when you least expect it. If you're a family living with autism, and you just so happen to be in the (859), consider yourself fortunate. Your local YMCA has acknowledged your cries for help, and they are now offering FREE services! Many families with autism do not get the opportunities for soci...