Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻

Always learning. Autism mom. Irreverent wife of a reverend. Keeper of cats. Swearing is my coping mechanism. 💜 Coffee. Books. Wine. Netflix. Sarcasm. Solitude.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

Good morning. My son has a 30 second message to brighten everyone's day. 😊

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

Checking in with a fun story from school... one of my son's teachers told me she thinks he's probably the smartest kid in the whole school.

She's probably exaggerating, but it does my mama heart good to know I'm not the only one who sees past the speech issues.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

@indafckitbucket Thank you for being such a great cheerleader 💜 He's doing wonderfully in school. A little smarty pants. Aces his spelling practice test every week so he gets free time when the other kids are taking the real test and they're sending him home with 5th grade math worksheets.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

Me: Good morning!

7: Good morning

Me: How are you feeling today, baby?

7: Happy

Me: Do you want to go to school today?

7: Yes, please

Me: Great! What do you want for breakfast?

7: Pancake and eggs and sausage

My (formerly nonverbal) baby conversing with me is EVERYTHING.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

@indafckitbucket Yesterday, when we picked him up, his teacher had a recording of him saying something to her she didn't understand... he was saying, "Do you want to play math bingo?"

It's how he asks for things. He phrases it like the question he wants you to ask him. But he's asking!

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

My 7yo can accurately name every NFL team by their logo if you were wondering how much we enjoy football in this house.

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When you tell my very literal autistic little dude to draw a picture, this is what you get.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

7 was not happy about stopping his computer games, multiplying 2-digit numbers and creating contractions, to do 3-digit addition and practice his spelling words (that he aced on the first try).

My 2nd grader is already bored with his 3rd grade homework.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

My 7yo playing his new favorite game. Little smarty pants.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

How did two introverts with a great respect and desire for personal space produce a child who likes to sit on people?

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

Unexpected comments from my son's teacher: We're trying to get him to stop sitting in the other students' laps.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

I sent my MIL first day of school pictures 2 hours ago and just received a text with a picture of one of them printed and framed already.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

@diamondgirl9876 Thank you!

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

My 2nd grader is going into a general learning disabilities class for grades 3-5 instead of the autism specific class for K-2! His teacher picked this Minecraft backpack for him. (We're very lucky he's in a school that provides backpacks and supplies)

School starts next week!

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

We did it! We made it through first grade! My amazing little dude adapted to every change and challenge. His speech and academic progress have him moving out of the autism class and into a general learning disabilities class... for 3rd-5th graders.

I'm so proud of this kid!! 💜

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

It's been a while since I've been active more than just lurking here. But I guess happy Twitter anniversary to me?

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

What it's like having kids.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

This is how 7 eats unpeeled apple slices. It's fine. Everything is fine.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

First day in another new class for my son. We haven't met the aides. The teacher changed the drop off routine last minute. There wasn't anyone there to take my son to his class like we were told there would be. I'm not happy. This is not okay.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

My husband complains about clueless husband jokes then uses 409 multi-surface to clean the carpet where our son threw up.

[Just another Mandy 🌻🦋🌻 @justamandy]

My son is obsessed with the number 19... so what's an appropriate age to introduce him to Stephen King's Dark Tower series?