A Little More of the Same

Sam was on vacation last week. Usually, I try to take a day off and spend it with him and I try to do something special -  to make him feel a little special. But with all of the time I’ve been taking up dealing with these other “behind the scenes” things, and all of the time they take up, I didn't feel I could afford a day off.

I feel kind of bad about it. Sam managed to make it out for an ice cream, so I guess that was good. I sure that's no problem as far as he's concerned. He loves being nothing more than being home. But it’s good for him to get out and a vacation should be a little more than that.

But he’s back to school this week and unlike me at his age, he seems fine with it.

For me, the last few days have been more of the same - lists of phone calls, and setting up, or trying to set up, meetings.

Yesterday, it was a phone call to the Special Ed director (IEP time is fast approaching) and a phone call to the person in charge of the program that I’m hoping to get him into next fall. Or rather, it was a call their voicemail.

Other than that, it was pretty light on the Sam front - just an evening of trying to weed through, and organize the mass of paperwork, after getting him some dinner. That, and trying to fight off sleep until a more acceptable nine o’clock.

Today, I managed to squeeze in another phone call to Sam’s special Ed Director (with some additional concerns and comments about the upcoming meeting), and I had a long, but inconclusive conversation with a lawyer about guardianship.

I have more calls to make, but for tomorrow, I’m hoping to keep it to just one. That one will be to the MRC - to let them know that I finally got all of the DDS forms filled out and sent out in the mail, and to see if we need to arrange another meeting.

And then I hope to be able to take a break for a day or two.

I still feel bad about that vacation - like I let him down. But at least, in a couple of nights, it will be Monk Night. That’s something we both look forward to. Then it will be another Saturday of running errands together and maybe we'll pick out another weekend baking project. It's not quite a vacation, but it's not too bad, either.