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  • The Three Wise Monkeys – Aspie style

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    Heather Holbrook
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    We toured the ice sculptures created for the annual St. Paul Winter Carnival this past weekend. The carnival was started about 120 years ago in response to a reporter from the East Coast writing that he couldn’t understand why anyone would want to live in such a frozen tundra as Minnesota. I think of it…

  • How to survive in the center of the sun

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    Heather Holbrook
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    Wear lava-proof underwear. I learned this imortant information today from my 10-year-old Aspie during lunch, and thought I would pass it along. He is learning about volcanoes in science class right now, so asked Friday if we would be able to make some lava at home. I had to inform him that, unfortunately (thankfully!) we do…

  • Quote of the day!

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    Heather Holbrook
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    This from my third-grader, after unsuccessfully trying to entice our four-year-old cat, who is hiding under the dining room table, trying to escape the energetic playfulness of the 7-month-old kitten, to eat a treat: “Cats take things way too seriously!” And so do people with ASD. Actually, just like cats, we take the wrong things seriously, and don’t…

  • Thank God, I’m terrible!

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    Heather Holbrook
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    For some months now, my son’s piano teacher has been asking him to learn to play Christian worship songs using just chord sheets. My husband and I didn’t push him over the summer – he got the summer off from lessons (Actually, I got the summer off from listening to him complain that he needed…

  • Why are we here?

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    Heather Holbrook
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    Devotions for kids on the spectrum An eight-year-old I know, who has ASD, asked her mom, “Why are we born, if we are just going to die?” I remember thinking about similar things when I was young. This is what I have come to learn. God created us to be His friend. He wants to be friends…