Movie Season & Life Ahead

Ok,Ok, i failed the blogging pledge & i have a mouth full of dirt at this very moment. ( if your confused read previous blog post ) I am really trying my best, but man i got alot goin on. Summer is almost here and that means kids movie season has begun. We have already been to Shrek & Marmaduke both relativley funny movies but really the whole movie season revolves around Toy Story 3. We have bought endless mini figures @ $10.00 a pair - while at the movie theatre the past two weeks i have bought kids combos @ $10.00 a piece - they come with a free voucher for ToysRus to get exclusive Toy Story wind up toys . This is MY LIFE people MOVIES & MOVIE TOYS ! Aaaaaaaah ! Some days i could blow a gasket if it were not for the little man with the cute face who can't live without them. No really i have created the monster - i know it, i know it... sigh I do have to say out of all the movies playing this summer Toy Story is one i look forward to. Besides movies we have been muddling through on the homeschool thing - man i am not cut out to be a teacher - do i have RESPECT for the good ones out there. As for me - I'm working hard on my book, and may start teaching some seminars the end of this month. All in All Life is moving on.

The Life I Was Dealt

Obviously i don't get this blogging thing - i believe your supposed to blog regularly - but can you give me a break? I was just new to it all and i didn't know. I promise to take the blogging pledge - Raise your right hand and say - " I Bridget will try to blog at least 3 times a week or eat dirt" - what? NO that doesn't sound good... Alright seriously now - LIfe has taken me over and i have honestly been trying to figure it all out. Ryeder started grade 2 and let me tell ya that was hell from 1-10.
He was attending a Private School because the classroom size was small and i felt it would be a better fit for him than the public school system - only 11 kids to 1 teacher. It worked okay for grade 1, we had a few bullying issues but he liked it and he was learning and growing into this crazy World we all accept as normal.
Grade 2 has been a whole different story - started out with the same kid bullying him again, a teacher administration that didn't want to address it as bullying, the teacher not communicating with me on any level, meetings with teacher, meetings with administration, till their answer was put him back into grade 1. I was blown away!
He is a brilliant child but definitely wasn't getting the time and attention he needed. So here i am homeschooling him until the end of the year trying to write a book and keep our heads above water - ya know? He is doing great and learning to read - something they struggled with teaching him. Through it all i have grown as a mother and a person and i believe the Universe is directing me down the path i need to be on. For this is the life i was dealt and I"M gonna make the BESTof it.

NYC or Bust

well we finally made it to the Big Apple & Ryeder couldn't have been more excited 2 see his beloved "Statue of Liberty" aka "Lady Liberty". It was a long & tiring day but it was definitely worth the 2 hr wait 2 see his face "smiling" through it all. He got 2 go 2 ToysRus in Times Square: saw the mechanical TRex - Ferris wheel - bought a new talkin Woody ( Toy Story 3 comin out next summer) Went 2 FAO Swartz : danced on the big floor piano (felt like Tom Hanks in "Big") went through a mini Hurricane while at the Bronx Zoo - that was fun! Rode the subways & took lots of Yellow Taxis - that was another must do 4 Rye. All in All had a great trip - going back 4 Macy Day Parade in November & of course a few Broadway plays. I was a little concerned about how he would react 2 all the people & noise in NYC but 2 my surprise the excitement of all the new things 2 see & do seem 2 over rule all that. He decided we should move 2 NYC because "it's not boring here at all" & there was just so much we still need 2 see "so it would B better if we just move here". That's my guy always thinkin ! LOL

the "Horse Boy"

sorry i haven't been blogging lately, i have been sooo tired and Twitter has been taking up my time - it can be sooo addictive! i have been reading a new book or two (ten) The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson is wonderful and heartwarming. The love and devotion of a father trying to find a way to heal his Autistic son; the journey they take half way across the world becomes a journey of true Love - it is absolutely beautiful - a must read. Back on my home front: Ryeder is anticipating the end of grade 1 with true excitement of not having to wake up sooo early for a few months; and grade 1 being finished forever! we are taking him to NYC this summer so he can finally see his beloved "Lady Liberty" he has been anticipating this for three yrs now - it will be great to see him light up when he see's her. more to come on that trip in about a month. anyway i have to go - you can catch me on Twitter @birdb anyday of the week and i will be back here soon - hopefully with something interesting to relay.

Doc 'walk a mile in our shoes"

I watched Jenny McCarthy, DR. Jerry Kartzinel and J.B. Handley on The Doctors show yesterday and it was sooo hard to watch without tears. J.B. Handley got very heated in the discussion, then one of the Doctors got heated back, because he took it as an attack on him personally. How i see it is this: Handley gets frustrated when he hears Doctors say that the studies have been done on Vaccines. When anyone can Google vaccine studies and see that clearly not enough has been done to rule out the link between Autism and Vaccines. Most importantly J. B. Handley is a parent who lives with Autism daily, hourly, by the minute so if you don't live with it Doc you really can't feel the frustration we all feel about this subject. I think that Doctors have to start listening to the parents; when you've got so many of them telling you the same story day in and day out. Their child was speaking and after X amount of vaccines they woke up to a silent child... It's not rocket science Doc - just listen and learn - there has got to be something there that you all are missing. Jenny, Jerry, and J.B. are not saying that vaccines are causing Autism - what they are saying is: vaccines could be a one important factor that is affecting our children, they are saying : clean out the toxic preservatives in them, reduce the amount given, stretch out the schedule, do more thorough studies; so that we can either connect them or remove them from the equation. As a mother of a child living with Autism, I can't tell you just how much the RESPECT i have for Jenny McCarthy. She is a Warrior for all of us living with Autism in our lives. She cares about our children and wants what all of us want - healthy happy children. I believe she wants to awaken everyone to look more carefully at everything related to Autism and what could be causing it - and that to me is "above and beyond"what we could ask for. To all the Doctors out there who feel as though we are attacking you - you could not be farther from the truth- we are trying to make you be "the best that you can be" by opening your eyes and your minds - so please hear our call.

the Big Guy speaks

I'm a little behind on this story by a week but if you haven't read it yet - here it is: Jim Carrey ROCKS!!!

ryeders month

hello i'm back to blogging and this is a short one but check out these links for autism awareness month: Larry King Live Tonight: Jenny     Mc Carthy & Jim Carey,  from movie Greece, Didi Conn