Fallready

So summer went like *that* (finger snap) and it is Fall. Already.

I have my autismom calendar of events that confirm the paper Gregorian version in the kitchen:

• The back to school frustration of not enough communication from the school. 
• Feeling like the I need Homeland Security Clearance to get his schedule. 
• Beginning of school year IEP request and meeting, in which I try to understand where James will be physically at which time for each IEP service and what has been changed without telling me since the last IEP team meeting. 
• School pictures, once again in a red polo shirt. There no other Picture Day shirts. 
• Newsletters via a different delivery system. 
• Requests for money from the school. 
• First days of school missed due to cold AND flu that are "going around". 
• First homework makeup packet request and turn in. 
• First meltdown over reading assignment. 
• First sneaking of Crocs instead of sneakers to school. 
• Verbal stimming begins over a new teacher's name. 
• I try to commit a new aide's name to memory. 
• We set up new routines for homework and find The One Pencil that is tolerable for completing assignments. 
• Been called by the new school because the out sick message got lost. 
• Been called to leave work and pick him up because he was distraught. 
• Three evil bouts with constipation (and calls from the school or aide). 
• One email skirmish on why he was sent out for making noise / misunderstanding of what happened.

I have some more homework to do before meeting again with his team. After that, I intend to enjoy Fall with James and build up some fortitude before the return from Winter break sets off a new flurry of excitement.