One of my husband's nicknames for me is "Honest Abe" as in Abraham Lincoln. During the summer, while I was in my kitchen, I heard what sounded like a lawn mower. After looking around at my neighbor's houses I figured out there was a lawn guy mowing OUR lawn! I went outside and asked the guy what he was doing. He was like, "don't you use a lawn service?" I said, "no, I do it myself." I guess I could have let the guy do our lawn, but then my neighbor who did pay for his services would have got the bill and not had their lawn mowed! Yesterday, we got an envelope in the mail. We didn't recognize the return address, but opened it up anyways. It turned out, somebody found something of ours that was lost and they took the time to mail it back. That really meant a lot to me. This morning Lauren and I were talking about Christmas presents. A month or so ago she had told me there was a certain book that she wanted. I guess as a "gentle" reminder, she was telling me this morning, "if you haven't already bought me any Christmas presents, there's a book I want." I said, "well, I'm not going to tell you whether I bought it or not." Lauren took one look at me and could tell by my face that I had already bought it and said, "you're not a very good liar!" I think honesty is a good quality. It's definitely a trait I try to teach my own children. I remember once my grandmother (my dad's mom) telling me she didn't "trust" one of the guys I was dating. She also used to tell me if I had pimples. At the time, I thought she was being a little too honest!! I'm glad I listened to her about the old boyfriend though :) One of the definitions of the word honest is genuine. My friends and family know that what you see is what you get with me :) It makes me sad when somebody will say one thing to my face, but says something else behind my back. I guess I like to try and see the good in everybody!! Do you think it's possible to ever be too honest?? To me, honesty is always the best policy!
When Dominic was diagnosed with Autism at 2 1/2, I went to our local library and took out every book I could find about Autism. Sometimes I would bring back 20 books. This was 2006, so a lot of the information was very "dated." I guess I was looking for a book that would tell me what I should do next, like a "manual." Autism doesn't quite work that way! The saying is, " if you know one person with Autism, you know one person with Autism." Every mom to an individual with Autism follows their own "path." I think as moms, we judge ourselves much harder than anyone else does. I was 41 when I had Dominic. Did he get the diagnosis of Autism because I was an older mom? because I drank a lot of pop? I could sit and think about that every minute of every day. I am pretty integrated into the Autism community around Lansing and have told more than one person that it took me about two weeks to come to terms with Dominic's diagnosis. It is so incredib...
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