It’s been a long time, now I’m coming back home. In case anyone is wondering about the title on this posting, I quoted the first line of the song. It’s certainly been a while since I’ve posted and I have some updates and then some info about my blog for November.
First, the update. Avi is doing very well at his new school. He has begun to settle in there and he is beginning to buy into their token economy system (point system). He can earn up to 100 points each day and he can save points and use them to buy cool stuff at the school store. Everything in the store can be purchased with points that can be earned in a single year. They even have Nintendo DS and games for it! That is what he wants, although I think we are going to buy one soon and surprise him. The school actually likes them and uses them in social training situations in school.
He still has good days and bad days. We are starting with a new therapist and this doctor is tops in the area of behavioral psychology (at least based on his fees he better be tops J ). Marsha met with him a few weeks back and then he did a home visit. Then Avi met with him in his office and Marsha again. I have a phone appointment with him later today. And then he will begin to work out a plan for us and he will see Avi on a weekly basis for now. So things are looking up in that department as well (except we will go broke paying for this!)
On Columbus Day Avi was off from school and I was off from work also. Noam was in school so I spent the day with Avi. We went to the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange. It was just reopened after a few years of renovation. We had a great time and Avi was very attentive to me when I was explaining things. He was very interested in seeing all the old heavy machines that they used there in manufacturing Edison’s products. So again, I think things are looking up with Avi, although we are used to 2 steps forward one step back, but I hope in this case we won’t take a step back.
Noam and Shayna are doing well with little to report.
Now the news. November is designated NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month (at least by a bunch of bloggers) and my goal is to post every day in the month of November. The people at NaBloPoMo will come up with a theme for November, but it is not at all mandatory to post on their theme. Since this will be my first NaBloPoMo month, I am going to stick with my roots and make it a Beatles Month. I am hard at work listening to all of the new remastered Beatles albums and, at least for the beginning of the month, I will be posting reviews/comparisons of the stereo mix and the mono mix cds. Stay tuned!
In the meantime, I have written about the show Glee which is a favorite of mine. Tonights episode seems to have some Jewish content (I have not seen it yet). Here is an advance clip that I have seen.
Enjoy!