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September 27 2015:
Morning walk with Thomas .. Awesome! Was not feeling good when I woke up this morning. Laid on the couch and went back to sleep. When Thomas woke up he put a blanket on me, got me a pillow, and set my books beside me. Then he took a picture of me sleeping .. Said I looked so cute. HA! Blessed beyond words that we chose one another as mom n son.
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September 27 2014:
Being a human means anything is possible! Great, heartwarming movie! Lillian says silly and crazy and Thomas says interesting! HA!
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September 27 2013:
Team TLC movie night … one night early. Team Member C gets to hang out with some adults tomorrow night!
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September 27 2013:
Thomas says he’s so full from lunch and so full of HappYness that he’s not hungry! Says he is so full of happy from our “weird” day! HA!
Finally leave the house at about 1:00 for some lunch, get to the place and they only take cash or check. Okay. So we head to a different place and we are all so hungry we eat absolutely EVERYTHING we ordered! Then go next door for gigantic gluten free cupcakes! Then stop at the Atlantis for the NCET Entrepreneur Expo where Thomas and Lillian get to meet tons of people who know them from facebook! HA!
As we are leaving one of the exhibitors gives Lillian two gigantic bundles of balloons! Thought she was gonna float away! That was interesting stuffing those in my car too! YES! That was a kinda weird day Thomas and I’m so blessed that it added to your HappYness! Now, for dinner! We are all so full I’m only making homemade garlic fries … and .. that’s … IT! Let’s hear it for DIFFERENT days!
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September 27 2013:
Team TLC got to see an amazing art show put on by Mother Nature last night! The art changed every few minutes! Absolutely beautiful!
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September 27 2013:
Finally off for a Team TLC adventure … One gigantic two hour Lillian meltdown later! All’s good now! Whew!
Yummy lunch for Team TLC!
Stopped by the NCET Expo … Thomas and Lillian got a few balloons … Ummmmmm … Good Gosh!!
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September 27 2012:
The boots and I are having a tooth fixin adventure …
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September 27 2011:
ST and OT adventures for Team Member L!!!
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September 27 2009:
Lillian drew this with chalk outside. I asked what’s the stuff on the sides of the heart. It’s a girl heart!!
Bday party for one of Lillian’s friends at Build a Bear in the mall.
So, since Ms. Lillian won’t touch stuffed animals, Thomas chose the animal and helped with the stuffin.
Lillian chose the name and the clothes. And this monkey, named Lilly, by the way is extra special. It has 2 hearts. One for Thomas & one for Lillian!
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September 26 2015:
Team TLC movie night … “Smile” …
Thomas says, “Good, awesome” ….
Lillian says, “Good, awesome, good music” …
I say it was okay. Had to skip a few sections of mature content.
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September 26 2015:
Thomas n Camilla September 2015 date day – part 1 … Lunch!
Thomas n Camilla September 2015 date day – part 2 … Mandarine orange cheesecake!!! Yum!!! Then Grassroots Books where we also turned in a bag of books. YAY!
Thomas and Camilla September 2015 Date day – Part 3… Went for a wonderful walk … I truly love going for walks with Thomas.
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September 26 2014:
During our walk Thomas was showing me the 3 main moves of fencing. I asked who had taught him that. Oh, remember when I told you I read all the encyclopedia’s in the classroom? It was in there …. Then I found an old modular quick jack, still in the package, on the ground during our walk. He was so excited to get home and examine this odd thing. I haven’t used a land line since maybe 2009. …. Then he told me that his comfort zone at school is with books all around him, researching and writing reports. Yesterday he wrote a report about Italy. Today was the Eastern Hemisphere. He’s so inspiring. I just love being around him!
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September 26 2012:
That moment when your six year old son finally understands all the things you have been telling him about happiness … That moment when …. that moment when time stands still …. That moment is when you acknowledge to yourself that YOU are the one that helped him understand and to turn his thoughts around.
For the past few weeks Thomas has been struggling in school. He loves the school, loves the playground and generally liked being there. But, every morning for the past few weeks he’s been unhappy with going to school. Says he doesn’t want to go, there’s nothing to do, it’s no fun, so and so isn’t being kind to him, the teacher won’t answer his questions. After I did some investigation, listening and chatting with the teacher, I came to the conclusion that this was coming from Thomas’ thinking. He had decided to be unhappy with his lessons in school, unhappy being there … just unhappy about the whole thing. He kept saying he was unhappy and it was no fun. I have been kindly and gently discussing with him that the way he is thinking about his day before he even gets there is why he is not happy. He is putting off an unhappy energy and being grumpy. I told him it is his choice whether he has a good day or a bad day at school.
Before I dropped him off this morning he told me that yesterday, he was happy and kind with everyone in his classroom. He said, that’s how it works right? When we are happy and kind, the people around us are too. I told him “You got that right!”. It starts with YOU first. Once we decide to be happy and be kind, it spreads to those around us and …… Then …. it comes back to us! I told him how proud I was of him for figuring it out!
This morning he got out of the car happy and smiling …. That moment when …. That moment when you are filled with so much joy that your eyes begin to sweat as your drive off …. That Moment!