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Monthly Archives: January 2012

our spd life: z’s engine.

26 Thursday Jan 2012

Posted by Mrs. D in sensory processing disorder, spd, spd tactics, z

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Living with a child who has Sensory Processing Disorder can mean a number of challenges throughout the day. One of the biggest challenges is to find a way to calm him down when his nervous system goes into overdrive.

One of my favorite phrases our OT uses when talking to Z is “it looks like your engine is fast/slow/loud/quiet/busy.” Any one of those things can describe how his body is acting at any given time. And it can literally change from moment to moment.

The amazing thing to me is that Z actually understands what it means. That understanding has made a world of difference on a daily basis. We have gotten into the habit of frequently asking him what his engine feels like. Some of his favorite answers are “loud” and “quiet” though we get the occasional “grumpy” or ‘sleepy.” When he is feeling loud or fast or grumpy, he is starting to be able to stop and think about what he needs to do to feel quiet or slow. Which is amazing. I can’t even describe how much easier it makes day to day life to have him realize that he needs to stop and calm his engine. When he realizes this, he’ll stop and climb into my lap and take big breaths while I rub his back, lie on the floor in turtle pose, or find some sort of soothing activity (like Legos or his bean box).

His engine is still revved up enough times each day that leaves Mr. D* and I exhausted and his brother and sister frustrated after being jumped on/kicked/hit/etc., but at least we are making progress. It’s the small victories throughout the day that make it all worth it.

lucky me.

24 Tuesday Jan 2012

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So, 18 years ago today, this really cute boy took me to the symphony. Then we went to watch To Catch a Thief with some friends. He has now stuck by me for half his life. I think I’m pretty lucky…

preach it, sister.

22 Sunday Jan 2012

Posted by Mrs. D in articles, faith, family

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I should probably start this post by apologizing for the fact that I am going to upset/offend half of my meager readership. Except, the truth is, I’m not sorry. I’m quite happy to have moved past that closed-minded, judgmental, Baptist girl of yore. (Not that I don’t love or respect Baptists. I’m just glad I’m not there anymore. Very glad.) God has brought me to where I am today and I am good with that.

There’s this blogger named Glennon who I discovered this week, thanks to the Huffington Post. If it’s possible to be in love with someone I have never met, then I am definitely in love with her. And the way she writes. And the way she writes what she thinks, no apologies. I initially read this article that was posted on Huff Post and I almost started crying. Or jumping up and down screaming “Hallelujah.” Then I found her blog and I found this post that blew me away. And I haven’t been able to think about anything else since. I have to admit that I’m a bit jealous that she beat me to this. Because, if I was going to write a letter to my kids about being gay this is exactly what I would write. Exactly. Wouldn’t change a thing. This is my favorite quote from the post:

And I better make sure that my children know beyond a shadow of a doubt that in God’s and their father’s and my eyes, they are okay. They are fine. They are loved as they are. Without a single unless.

Amen, Sister.

thank you, gop.

22 Sunday Jan 2012

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Newt Gingrich takes the South Carolina primary, huh?

In all honesty, I love the GOP right now. I mean, really. The crazier this primary gets, the more of a sure thing Obama is.

Obama 2012, friends.

(And apologies to my Republican family. I love you.)

i want to go to there. again.

20 Friday Jan 2012

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Italy 2004.

(Also, I wish my stomach would look like that again. Sigh. #3c-sectionslater)

the latest from z

17 Tuesday Jan 2012

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Me: “Z, you need to share that, please.”
Z: ::big sigh:: “Mom. You worry about you. I’ll worry about me.”

After dropping some Legos on the ground: “We are crying out loud for crying out loud!”

“I just want to shake my bootie!”

 

a great morning.

14 Saturday Jan 2012

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LK here to visit, sunny day at the beach, and a bowl of hot chocolate with my favorite girl:

♣ this is carmelita*

mom of 3 stellar kids. wife of mr. d*. coffee addict. jesus follower. book lover. baker. traveler. wine lover. wannabe photographer. michigan football fanatic.

*Not my real name. Or his. Ask me about it.

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♣ the grownup reading list

  • a farewell to arms
  • beautiful ruins: a novel
  • devil in the white city
  • extremely loud and incredibly close
  • gone girl
  • hateship, friendship, courtship, loveship, marriage: stories
  • imperfect birds
  • interpreter of maladies
  • sarah's key
  • the casual vacancy
  • the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society
  • the paris wife
  • the postmistress
  • water for elephants
  • where'd you go bernadette
  • zeitoun

♣ the ten and under reading list

  • 13 gifts
  • alexander and the terrible, horrible no good, very bad day
  • chomp
  • curious george in the snow
  • danny the champion of the world
  • gansta granny
  • harry potter and the order of the phoenix
  • how i became a pirate
  • lego star wars: the visual dictionary
  • mom and dad are palindromes
  • pie
  • splat the cat sings flat
  • the adventures of tin tin
  • the diary of a young girl: anne frank
  • the giants and the joneses
  • the hobbit

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