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Sun, Jun. 29th, 2008, 07:29 pm
Visiting Tom
Tom, our severely autistic younger son, has been living away from us for the last two years. We go to visit him most weekends. Today I went to see him.
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Current Mood: 
pleased
pleasedSat, Jun. 7th, 2008, 07:49 pm
The weekend so far
( Friday night )
( Saturday morning at home )
( Farmers' Market )
( Visiting Tom )
( A little shopping )
More later....if I get a chance.
( Saturday morning at home )
( Farmers' Market )
( Visiting Tom )
( A little shopping )
More later....if I get a chance.
Sun, May. 11th, 2008, 10:03 pm
Chicago in the Twin Cities
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Current Mood: 
nostalgic
nostalgicSun, Apr. 20th, 2008, 09:14 pm
On the Roller Coaster
Sun, Apr. 6th, 2008, 09:14 pm
Taxes--2nd pass
As I wrote previously, our 2007 tax situation was chaotic. It now looks like we will be getting a record refund from the Feds and paying a record amount to the State. Still, that works out in our favor.
Our son J has a separate tax return, but I am stuck on that, He is getting Social Security Disability payments, but we do not yet have the SSA-1099 for him.
While writing this I realized we have a similar situation for our younger son, Tom. We will be contacting their social worker.
Our son J has a separate tax return, but I am stuck on that, He is getting Social Security Disability payments, but we do not yet have the SSA-1099 for him.
While writing this I realized we have a similar situation for our younger son, Tom. We will be contacting their social worker.
Current Mood: 
okay
okaySun, Mar. 2nd, 2008, 03:12 pm
Tom Update
We saw Tom yesterday. We decided to treat this like our regular visits since he moved out of our house back in 2006. So we picked him up from where he is now staying, the crisis center in West St, Paul, and took him to lunch at the Highland Grill. This worked out very well, although Tom was very hungry. We saw once again that Tom likes quite spicy food, and despite his food allergies, has a much wide range of taste than his brother. Afterwards we took a walk around the neighborhood, a very pleasant part of St. Paul. It had a delightful sense of normalcy. Tom was in good spirits and seems to be doing very well at the Crisis Center.
Current Mood: pleased
pleasedThu, Feb. 21st, 2008, 06:35 pm
A long, successful, and exhausting day
( Moving Tom out of the hospital )
Current Mood: 
drained
drainedWed, Feb. 20th, 2008, 10:29 pm
Latest on Tom
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mia_mcdavid: King of all he surveys.
We are doing better: We have a problem, a very serious problem. But we no longer have a crisis.
mia_mcdavid: King of all he surveys.We are doing better: We have a problem, a very serious problem. But we no longer have a crisis.
Tue, Feb. 19th, 2008, 09:58 pm
Tom and work
mia_mcdavid just wrote about what is happening with Tom. I will be taking the day off from work for this. Fortunately, my cred at the office is pretty good right now. The weekend's server work was way more exciting than I like--there was a really obscure problem with different versions of Microsoft software, but in the end we opened for a normal business day this morning (as a branch of government we were closed yesterday, although I was still working).
Mon, Feb. 18th, 2008, 09:39 pm
Tom Update
Sat, Feb. 16th, 2008, 07:38 pm
Updates on Tom
From mia_mcdavid:
mia_mcdavid:- Today (Feb. 15)
- The thing about beating your head against the wall... (Feb. 16)
Current Mood: relieved
relievedThu, Feb. 14th, 2008, 08:43 am
Preoccupied
Thomas, our younger son, has been hospitalized. Mia has been writing about this:
On a totally different front, I have to work on Sunday, thereby missing the second day of![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif)
colgaffneyis at the St. Paul Scottish Ramble. I have two big system implementation projects to complete. These are the sort of thing that can only be done outside of business hours, and require extensive coordination with my co-workers. So scheduling is always hard, and compromises have to be made.
- Worried about Tom (Feb. 11).
- Tom update (Feb. 13).
- Today with Tom (Feb. 13).
On a totally different front, I have to work on Sunday, thereby missing the second day of
colgaffneyis at the St. Paul Scottish Ramble. I have two big system implementation projects to complete. These are the sort of thing that can only be done outside of business hours, and require extensive coordination with my co-workers. So scheduling is always hard, and compromises have to be made.
Sun, Jan. 27th, 2008, 09:27 pm
Good Weekend
Late last week at work was difficult, and when I got home Friday night I was in something of a funk about all I had to do. However, I settled down to what had to be done, did it (insert Powdermilk Biscuits commercial) and had a good time.
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Mon, Dec. 24th, 2007, 10:00 pm
And while everything else is going on....
Sun, Dec. 23rd, 2007, 10:17 pm
Icons and visions
A remark by the rector of our church, in this morning's sermon, reminded me of visit I made in 1973 to the house of the Order of the Holy Cross in Santa Barbara, California. There I met Fr. John Walsted, who is an icon painter. Our talks made a deep impression on me, which sustained me through the dark years when we were realizing the full extent of our son Tom's disability. I had the good fortune to meet him again in 2003, and to thank him for what he had said, and shown, three decades earlier.
Sun, Dec. 16th, 2007, 08:31 pm
Lessons and Carols, followed by dinner
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Current Mood: high
high