Theme me

I've come to the conclusion that I am rather disappointed in my blog. It has no theme! I am a creature of theme. It provides me with structure. I crave themes! Every party I ever threw had a theme, even if it was so subtle that only a select few noticed... it was there.

So my blog needs a theme. At the moment, this so-called theme appears to be chaos. *eye roll* which isn't such a bad thing, but I'm becoming bored with it and need to move on.

There are some great blogs out there, like PINK IS THE NEW BLOG http://trent.blogspot.com/ and then there is POSTSECRET http://www.postsecret.blogspot.com/ My sister-in-law has an awesome blog too http://iamaloverofchaos.blogspot.com/ Now I'm not saying that I want my blog to be up there in the list of awesome blogs.... but I want a purpose!!! The Realist http://realist.liberalsonly.net/ had purpose... Shakespeare's Sister has a purpose http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/

So what should my focus be on? Motherhood? Politics? Art? General hobbies? .... sigh...

I think I'll stick to chaos for a little while longer.

La la la

I am so tired. I have so much to do, but I'm just too tired to do anything productive. LOL I've been fighting a cold for over a week, and I'm feeling a little on the lazy side.

I have reports to write, service coordinations to complete... a closet to clean before it swallows me one day... magazine articles to read that remain sitting on the table, covered with more articles, books and magazines that I would love to one day read... maybe during Spring Break.

Yes... spring break can't come soon enough! Maybe I might actually return to drawing or painting even... HA. Yeah, I know, that was funny... LOL

Above is a photo of Julius, snoozing in our bed... he usually joins us with his pillow around three or four in the morning...

Hi there!

It's been a little while since i've updated. Let's see... work has been draining the life out of me. I have a yucky cold... oh, and I just recently had a birthday! Yay Me. I'm 28 :)

So we've been working on Best Practices for children with autism spectrum disorders. That's been very exciting. I'm really happy to be a part of this decision making process. I presented what we've done thus far at a teacher meeting a few weeks ago. I got a lot of nice feedback.

Do you know that 1 in 150 children under the age of 8 in the USA have a diagnosis of autism? And that in New Jersey that number is 1 in 94?

For more information, you can check out:

The autism society of america http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer

cure autism now http://www.cureautismnow.org/site/c.bhLOK2PILuF/b.1021889/k.BFD8/Home.htm

NIMH's brochure on ASD http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/autism.cfm

Autism Speaks http://www.autismspeaks.org/

Tenple Grandin http://www.templegrandin.com/