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My brother and sister in law gifted me this Lily when they visited me in June. The hardest part of growing a plant is not killing them. I was surprised how big this had grown inside a greenhouse in a botanical garden that I visited last week. I think it is time for me to…
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What do you love about where you live? To raise a special child, environment is very important. It is more than inside the four walls of the house. We have created an atmosphere that my special boy thrives. But we are blessed to live in a community that accepts my son. He is accepted at…
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Today my walk with my special boy was at Presque Isle Bay. I seem to stumble upon wonderful things when I walk with my boy and today too proved to be one. My husband rested himself on a park bench while I took a 2 mile hike along the trail. I saw the above information…
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One of the best things we do as a family is visit zoos. It is a great place to spend time as a family and learn new things. My special one loves to pet the animals at the petting zoo and feed them too. But the one thing that I am scared of in a…
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What brings you peace? Sunday night, after my family went to bed I sat and switched on a mindfulness music that my Fitbit app provides for free. Sometimes it would just be music, or sound of nature or a person giving some motivational talk. That day, it was a five minute positivity talk and just…
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As I take my walks with my boy I have started noticing more of these wild flowers. I do not have much time since my boy can walk away from me. So I take a few shots and come to see what they are on my app. I try to post atleast once a week…
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For the past year, My younger one kept saying he wanted to bike on the Great Allegheny Passageway. The 300 mile trail runs between Pittsburgh and Washington DC. His goal was to bike from Mckeesport to Ohiopyle a distance of 60 miles. After many many hiccups, he was able to accomplish his goal today. We…
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If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? I am not a business person. I also do not like to take risks. So this would just be a hypothetical answer. I love flowers. So I would love to open a flower shop. This means I have to learn a lot…
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What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? There are 31 million active bloggers who are posting on the internet atleast once a month in the United States. There are nearly 600 million bloggers world wide. Looking at the above statistics our mind may think, what would my…
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Describe your life in an alternate universe. We moved to this country when we were in our twenties. So we always talk about how life would have been if we didn’t move. We had a very special boy. We talk about how our life would have been if he was a neurotypical person. We didn’t…
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What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it? For our Twenty Fifth Wedding Anniversary we drove to Herndon, Virginia to eat at an Indian Restaurant called Adayar Ananda Bhavan. We began our married life in India and it was that time this chain of restaurant was becoming famous. So…
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Yesterday I wrote a blog and said one of the things that make me happy was spicy food. My husband has been on a soft diet and due to my laziness we all ate what my husband ate. Technically I would call it baby food, with not much oil and no spice. So today was…
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List 30 things that make you happy. I woke up a bit early and was surprised to see a video like from my son’s music teacher. We made that video for a program and he received certificate in the instrument category. We had so many technical difficulties the day we recorded the piece and I…
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When we bought our house 12 years ago, we just had one light Swamp rose mallow or hibiscus plant. Just this white pink one. Then few years down the line, we were surprised to see these dark pink ones. A busy bee had pollinated from our neighbors. Then at a fund raiser a few years…
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This looked like a long week with my husband recovering from a minor surgery that happened on Monday. He is doing great but to err on the side of caution he is taking plenty of rest. But life continues and my special one has stepped up with watering our garden. Then I have a beautiful…
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Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone. I think I am going to use this opportunity to request people to be considerate when they see an adult or a grown boy with autism with his Mother in a ladies bathroom. Recently a 15 year old autistic boy and his Mom were…
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I wrote this blog nearly 3 years ago, called Pandigai (festivities), so I just copied it today and did some editing. What traditions have you not kept that your parents had? Twenty two years back my Mom made her first trip to USA. My special one was 3 and half years old and was a…
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Was today typical? Yesterday my husband had a medical procedure that became a minor surgery. He is doing great now and on his way to recovery but it is not a typical day for us. In fact as a family handling an young adult on the autism spectrum every day has it’s own challenges. But…
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Rita the rabbit was too happy she built a safe little home. Her sisters Rina and Richa were also going to live with her. No huffing and puffing by Pat the Cat was going to break their house. They had a made a safe tunnel to their neighbor’s vegetable patch and that would provide them…
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The butterfly bushes are in bloom and the monarchs have arrived, fluttering their tiny wings. As the early morning sun hit my eye, “Is the whole community here” I ask myself. “No”, just one! For FOWC with Fandango : Arrive For RDP Sunday: Community For Cee’s Flower of the Day For Sammy’s weekend writing prompt…
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