Category Archives: Daily life

Happy Mother’s Day! To every mother who knows what it’s like to love until it hurts, I salute you. You didn’t know you could love this deeply, protect this strongly or fight this hard. But you DO love, protect and … Continue reading →

Well Lucas, here we are.  You’re twenty two years old today. Wow, what a time it’s been.  You’ve gone from being a running, shrieking, unresponsive kid to being a young man who takes care of his own dog and helps … Continue reading →

Lucas loves the Titanic. He loves the size of the liner and he seems to be fascinated with the huge engines, the boilers and enormous smoke stacks. He’s also fascinated with the story of this most famous of ocean liners.  … Continue reading →

Someone challenged me to write about ‘random acts of kindness’, but there’s not a lot of ‘random’ in the world of autism! Most things need to be planned out; life goes much more smoothly that way. But we DO encourage … Continue reading →

I was going through our photos, and came across this one of Lucas with his dad. Because he got into EVERYTHING, Alan took to putting Lucas on his shoulders whenever we went anywhere. We used this technique when we went … Continue reading →

Well, this has been a really busy year for us (the reason I haven’t updated in so long!) Since I last checked in, we’ve had several life changing experiences happen to us; always a challenge in the world of autism… … Continue reading →

Lucas was watching “Jurassic Park” today. During the part where they were lifting a cow through the air to drop it into the Velociraptor cage (kind of in a sling, at the end of a crane), he said, “Look Mom, … Continue reading →

Geez, how is it possible that it’s already the middle of January!  Christmas and New Year’s went by WAYYY too fast, and the start of a new year is always a busy time for our LucasWorks business.  We’ve also been trying … Continue reading →

I said I’d write about gym class and Special Olympics.  But we’ve had a ‘lunch crisis’ compounded by other stuff, and if I don’t write about it now I won’t get to it (life is moving REALLY quickly these days!) A … Continue reading →