My Green Family. ramblings of one family's journey to green living

Happy New Year!! Yes I know it’s a little late for that. But already 2010 has been a busy year for the Green Family and as a result I have neglected the blog.

Odum is feverishly finishing his Master’s thesis and will defend it before March. So as a result we are moving. Where? you ask. Well that’s the million dollar question. Odum has to get a job first so we’ve both been job hunting for him. So not only is the poor guy writing a thesis he’s also looking for job. And I am trying to get our house packed up since we have to be out of here by March. Let me tell you how fun that’s been with two crazy kiddos running around!

In addition to all this, Tristan has IBI therapy at least once a day, sometimes twice. We found out he has yeast overgrowth in his tummy, so we’ve been doing an anti-yeast protocol, which requires three different supplements (making the grand total of supplements ten!) that have to be taken at different times during the day. And he started a playgroup at Kidsability with three other kids with ASD. The result is a huge blossoming. Tristan is now onto three word phrases, he has been incredibly affectionate with everyone, especially Maya and he is playing functionally with his toys. It’s incredible to see this change in him.

Maya is also a going concern, back at the end of November she decided that at 16 months she was ready to drop her nap, so no down time for me during the day to attend to blogging and all it encompasses. The up side of this is that she finally started sleeping through the night, and it only takes about half an hour to get her down, giving me more time at night. She is blossoming as well, new words every day, playing with her Little People house, and asking “What’s this” about everything she lays eyes on. It’s wonderful!

I’ve also been contemplating the tone of our blog, as I’ve realized that most posts are about autism and not too many about going green. And I’ve felt a bit bad about that, seeing as the blog is called My Green Family. But right now our life is so centered around autism I really don’t have time to write well thought out, well researched posts about green living. Make no mistake we do live as green as we can (we still don’t have a car!! and we’re making an attempt at a veganish lifestyle) I just don’t have time to write about it. Talking about autism and sharing our journey is more my focus right now. I recently met another mom who is just about where we were with Tristan a year ago. They don’t have a diagnosis yet but she was really interested in what we were doing with Tristan and the success we’ve had. I realized that it would have been great to have another mom to talk to when we started out on this journey. About what happens at assessments, at appointments, what different bio-med protocols are like and other things to expect. So that’s one of the things I’m going to endeavor to write about, that and talk about some autism related issues, like the neurodiversity movement.

So that’ s been our 2010 so far, whew! I hope yours has also started out well!