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[matril]

I'll get to my drabble in a minute, but first of all, I've had a rather interesting day. This morning I finally got to a support group for parents of autistic children. I've been wanting to go, but having no car during the day made it pretty well impossible. However, today my mother-in-law was able to drive me up there. It was a good meeting. Only four other people there, which kind of surprised me - I'm sure there's more parents than that in the area who need support. Most of them had some pretty challenging situations - single parenthood, multiple children with disabilities of some sort of another - it was illuminating. I know I have many challenges ahead of me with Luke, but there's always hope that he'll progress to some extent. And just seeing Emma learn to talk at the typical age is a blessing, knowing that she could just as easily have faced the same delays as her brother.

Then I got home and found two messages from the school nurse. Darn. Luke has a minor cold, but more than that he woke up far too early and was so tired he fell asleep on the way to school. He was too cranky when he woke up. So I picked him up, brought him home, and actually got him to take a nap. Emma napped too. I could have gotten many things done then, if I hadn't also fallen asleep myself. :P This afternoon was naptime for everyone, I guess. It's already dark now, which is kind of a bummer. What happened to my day? Oh, well. Time to write my drabble. Lucky 13!