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            In the years since JR’s diagnosis, much has changed and most of these changes have been for the betterment of both JR and the healing of our family. JR is now ten-years old and goes to a school that specifically educates children who have autism. JR can communicate with us now using a system of pictures to build sentences. This has been progressing into a communication device of a computer nature where he presses the appropriate picture and the computer says the words for him. He is still for the most part without speech but understands everything that is said to him or said in his presence. The school has begun a reading program for him to see what he can read. Apparently, he has been reading for some time now. Everyday is a new developmental milestone that all though is severely delayed it is being mastered. And in the long run does it matter when he learned to tie his shoes or is it more important that he can tie his shoes?

             So yes, the changes that occurred in our entire family have been blessings in some ways and trials in others. Nevertheless, as a whole I think we as a family and probably because we are, still a family have weathered the storms pretty well. Now we see more of the glorious sunsets that God has to offer as opposed to the tornado known as autism. My personal perspective has changed as well. I went from a self-centered child to one who likes working with people of all ages. So much so that I volunteer two or three days a week at a local residential care facility for the elderly, I baby sit my little brother for my parents so they can have some alone time and go out occasionally. I have more understanding and compassion for the down trodden and the less than perfect of society. I have much less tolerance for those who make people feel down trodden and less than perfect.

            So the question in our home for sometime after JR was diagnosed was “if we could go back in time what would we change?” and the obvious answer then was we would take JR’s autism away. Now, I don’t think any of us would take away the trials of autism for the gifts resulting from it and from my brother, are more real and important than the losses we experienced all those years ago.

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I cried when I first read this, of course. Sam was just 13 when she wrote this and I think it is a perfect example of the maturity she possess, though doesn't always show :). She is a much more compassionate and sympathetic to others situations. And all though she doesn't get as involved in the cause as I do, she does understand why I can get a little "rabid" about it. She, her best friend and our surrogate daughter, Kayla and myself went to DC in June for the Green the Vaccines rally. Her picture (which is also on my yahoo group) from the rally is here:

I'm Samantha Storm (:

I like to laugh (so if you tell me a joke I'll be a happy camper), I like to have fun, I love to listen to music, and just chill out.

I've been called a Scene Queen, so I try to keep up my Scene Queen-eeness (:

Check back often and don't forget to comment my entrys, I love to hear everyones opinons. Any questions or comments? Email me at rain.is.my.thunder@gmail.com

Peace(:

-Samantha Storm

Et voila ce que je redoutais se produisit. Mais ce fut beau, classe et toujours aussi chic. Dans un final clairement parisien, j'ai quitté nos quatre new-yorkaises adorées. J'ai enfin comblé le petit bout de leur vie qu'il manquait pour comprendre tout le film.

J'ai enfin vu le visage de Charlotte York lorsqu'elle apprend qu'elle va être mère, l'émotion de Samantha Jones qui comprends qu'elle aime Smith, une Miranda Hobbes beaucoup moins sarcastique et une Carrie Bradshaw qui comprend enfin qui est LE grand amour de sa vie [jusqu'au prochain film bien sur...].

Alors que Clément m'annonçait une fin décevante due aux trois fins alternatives, j'ai eu le droit grâce aux DVD's à une et une seule version magnifique. J'ai bien entendu regardé les deux autres fins sur internet qui ont apparemment étaient faites à l'époque pour faire garder le suspens et faire circuler les rumeurs [Comme lors du tournage du film].

Après six années la série n'aura jamais perdu son humour et son émotion; même si la cinquième saison était plutôt décevante, la sixième, elle, était époustouflante.

Je n'ai donc plus qu'une seule chose à dire, vivement SEX & THE CITY: THE MOVIE 2!

O Binho mora no Rio, quase não temos contato, só nos falamos raramente pelo msn.

O Marquinhos mora aqui em Curitiba, temos uma relação muito legal, sempre saímos juntos para jantar e falamos muita merda juntos...adoro ele, de paixão...

A Stéphanie é irmã do Marquinhos, a raspinha do tacho, filha de velho...mimada, patricinha, linda, deveria ser modelo...um doce de menina, a minha paixão...sou madrinha de crisma dela e somos muito amigas...

A Cíntia é a prima mais velha, a cabeça da trupe...agora ela mora em londrina e nos afastamos bastante, mas é uma pessoa maravilhosa que eu gosto muito...

Só tenho um irmão e rezo todos os dias para meus filhos serem amigos como eu e o Dori somos...nunca brigamos, sempre fomos companheiros em tudo, até nas besteiras e depois que meu pai morreu nos unimos mais ainda...depois que ele casou ganhei uma irmã, a melhor cunhada do mundo, é quem sempre me ouve, me ajuda quando preciso e que sempre da corda às minhas maluquices...Dori é padrinho do Christian e Diana madrinha do Danilo...ah, sem contar que a família dela é como se fosse minha também...

Tudo isso só pra explicar as fotos abaixo:

Cintia ,Stephanie e Eu.

Dori, Diana e Danilo

But, we want a boy and we are naming him Harry Caray Wasson.

We already have Pixel Alouwishes Wasson (cat). He will be a year and a half old by the time we get the pup in October-November. Does anyone have any suggestions on integrating a puppy into a home that is already owned by a cat?

Hmmm... where should i start? Well, I met Sam when i was in Grade four. i didnt really talk to her. Actually i didnt talk to her until i was in the middle of grade seven. Now we are besties :D
I love how we use big word in are daily conversation like innuendo, affermative(geeks) and others... I also love how we are in to comic book( me and nick mostly but we will get you into them). I like hanging with you espicially when we go to the school or just play on your Wii or the Sims 2 but we always find something to do and we never get bored. But when we do get bored we usually do some stupid stuff like make movies or act like creepers...like when we made the killing vedio or the online radio thing:S wtf where we smoking weed or something i guess...Other fun times...Playing DDR, Lips of an Angel... you will have to get another mat and i will play against you and you will win but that will be okay:D ...hmmm what else to say??? i dunno Ahh yes Sam i also like how you help me with my homework like when we came over to your house and we studied in your basement and when i lost all my reviews and u sent me yours...i will make record when i am older and i will put you in there cause your are a saint to me..Ohh 'nother good thing came in my noggin how weird you are listing to all your weird music like Prince, MJ and all the other Child melester/ Creepos...but thats the way you are and thats the way i like it...but then again you do listin to some good music like some Nickelback and The way I Are...i think you listen to that song...but i dunnoo...Sam the letter your writting about me better be good cause this is some hard stuff this is...OHHH you also read some good books like Harry Potter and A series of Unfortunate Events. But then you read some weird stuff like The Uglies and the Vampire book...like wtf???:S T.V. shows House M.D. and American idol...which is weird now but...You also show me some cool stuff like Shoes and Txt Msg Brake up
By writing this i found that we have a lot in common and i dont know why we didnt hang out before that??? Notes...i love it when you write random notes to eachother...some times its expected and others...its random. but where cool like that. When were older wher are going to hang and you will help me with my school work even though you wont know wtf were doing..and were going to best friends till were 10000000 years old and we will have dinner parties meet for lunch, help each other for meratal problems (espicially Nick :S) and do all those thing. Basically if i were to sum you up in a paragraph to some that hated you and i had to wright something that would make them like you it would go something like this:
Samantha Marie Edgar is one of the coolest people i know. She is funny,but sometimes earnest, artistic, interesting, smart and very good at talking pictures as you can see in the ones shown. Basically if you dont like Samantha Edgar then i dont like you because that means your a boring person and you dont like uniqueness because thats exactly what Samantha is and if you dont think so you can kiss my ass.
Well im pretty sure that would be very good at making someone like you because it is very demanding. Well Sam im running out of things to say..which i dont know how because your that interesting...

Emmelene Couture:

Some pretty good time togather Emma. Like the sleeping bag. Never forget. It's going to be hard to write a lot about you because we hardly ever talk...but yet your one of my best friends :S.  I dont think i have a picture of just me and you but one day we will take one and i will be able to add more to this blog.

Joseph Labute:

Joey. Some pretty good times in Chicago. I think we should have done all that stuf to David like we said we were going to...but then you had to share a bed with him and...yah would not be a good situation. I say when we go to New York next year (if me and Nicholas end up going) the room arangements should be Me Nick you and Clinton. if that works out.

Lindsey Mihoren:

So many good time together.  Jell-o buds for life! We have jsut had so many good time togather i dont know what to write. Well maybe thats because i suck at writing and english and all that but i like to do it anyway. Im trying to write a lot because i wrote a lot for Sam. But i wrote that on facebook and just pasted it here. So technically i didnt write anything special about her.

Brianna Cernanec:

Well i did write that thing about you on here...that was kinda awqward. but i got 78 people to come on my blog because of that one post! Some fun times watching corney movies and eating Tacos...lmao. I will write more as our relationship progresses...

Nicholas Béchard: 

Nick is my twin brother and probobly one of my best friends. We have so many good times togather that most people proboly don't even know about. Like the Thriller dance, making music togather, playing video games, reading comics and other things.

Was it worth it? I'm not really sure. Maybe I should have just went home that night. I wonder where I'd be now if I had just said no to a friend.

My laptop died over the weekend.  It was having problems the last few weeks.  Friday night I turned it on. It lit up, then ...........  nothing.  It gets to the point where it needs to do something besides turn on all the lights on the buttons and it just quits working.  Sounds like a big problem, not a quick easy fix.  So, posting to the blog might be a bit spotty.  You can take away my phone. You can take away my tv.  You mess with my internet connection, you're asking for trouble.  Is there a 12-step program for people addicted to their computers?

The kids did great this weekend (as opposed to last weekend when they were both sick).  I'd post some pictures, but hey, the laptop is dead (or mortally wounded) and I don't have the time after work to futz with getting them downloaded to Matt's computer. So take my word for it, they're getting big. And cuter by the minute.  Their hair is growing in nicely. Sam's got great big curls all over and Jessie has pretty, thick blonde hair.  Sam'sg got two little teeth on the bottom, Jessie's got two on the bottom and four enormous teeth coming in on top.  Just ask Sam. She stuck her fingers into Jessie's mouth Sunday evening and Jessie thought they were a teething toy.  Oh, the tears, the drama.

Jessie climbed onto one of the footstools for our living room chairs this weekend. It's part of our corral system to keep the babies in one section of the living room so that we can see them (and so they don't go eating the dust bunnies on the other side of the room).  Just climbed up on it.  Like she's not a baby or something. Don't know what goes through that kid's mind.  She also treats anything in her way when she's crawling as a minor speed bump.  Including Jack. Just crawled right over him on Saturday. Lengthwise. Jack was dumbfounded.  He was expecting a little fur pulling, I guess, but not being crawled over.

Sam is crawling now. Did I mention that earlier?  She motors around nicely, although she's fairly inefficient and not nearly as speedy as Jess.  She's got her own pace.  Anything that get in her way just gets tossed over her shoulder like yesterday's garbage.  It's pretty funny to see this tiny little thing whipping toys over her shoulder.

Nope, I'm not drying off as fast as I wanted.  Time to hunt down a blow dryer.

Na primeira semana de férias fomos até Londrina, na casa daquela tia que falei em outro post...ficamos só 2 dias, mas valeu, matei a saudade dela, rimos bastante e renovei um pouco as energias...Tia Célia continua a mesma figura de sempre...

O Christian passou uma tarde inteira brincando no parquinho do mc donalds, comeu sorvete, se lambuzou e cansou...

Semana passada tirei um dia só para ele brincar no shopping, quebrou o cofrinho e fez a festa...comprou brinquedo, brincou no fliperama, brincou no parquinho, comeu Mc Lanche e aproveitou,fomos assistir Kung Fu Panda, comeu pipoca...dessa vez ele entendeu o que é FÉRIAS...

Danilo curtiu tudo junto com o irmão, sem entender muito bem é claro, mas nos acompanhou em todas...

Eu começo a aula na faculdade hoje, ate esqueci de contar, mas apertamos as contas de casa e vou conseguir fazer a faculdade que falei...to super feliz...tentei esgotar o peito pra deixar pro Danilo mamar, mas não consegui tirar muito não, hoje vou deixar ele tomar o Nam e durante a semana vou procurar um banco de leite, para pegar algumas dicas e conseguir deixar leite pro meu bezerro mamar na semana que vem...

Minhas esperanças estão renovadas, temos em mente algumas mudanças e se isso acontecer minha vida irá melhorar muito...ainda estamos providenciando as coisas, por isso prefiro não comentar...mas peço que rezem por mim, para que tudo de certo...eu to cheia de esperança e tenho fé que nada sairá errado...

Hoje é meu aniversário, 25 aninhos, quase uma criança ainda...um dia normal, com pedidos de vida saudável e que sempre melhore cada vez mais...

Que coisa mais linda!!!

Coisa mais linda parte 2!!!rss

Fazendo cavalinho no irmão!!!

Dinda Diana danho banho(detalhe, a banheira da casa dela é rosa!!)

No colo da mamaãe!!

I took Samantha to ballet this past weekend.  Mothers and fathers running after their girls, trying to get them to imitate the teacher.  The only way they know how is to copy the teacher themselves.  So you see adults trying to plie, kids trying to plie, and the teacher smiling patiently.  And for one moment, you think they got it so you sit down, only to have them run back to you, clinging onto your legs, asking for water or just plain refusing to do another ballet associated event.  *sigh* at least she looks cute in a tutu.

Some may say that I was totally crazy for deciding to come home again to small town suburbia for the second summer in a row but it has actually been one of the best things that has ever happened to me. I always knew that I had friends from high school who, whenever I came home, would always be there to see but honestly I never knew why.

See for my junior and senior year of high school and into my freshman year in college, I had two serious boyfriends. I was literally only single for six months between the two relationships and during those relationships my life was really about me and my guy. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t change those experiences for the world however, I realize that I made huge mistake during those years. I was so focused on my relationships, I truly put my friendships somewhat on hold. My friendships with some of my best friends did not grow in the ways they should of. To put it simply, I missed out. Yet somehow, I have been blessed because, those friends stuck around through it all.

After my last serious relationship ended, they were there for me. During one of the most difficult summers of my life, they let me cry over and over again. I specifically remember one night when I drank just a bit too much at a party where my ex decided to show up. I got frustrated and decided to go for a walk. I was “fine” until one of my best friends came running after me. The second she reached me, she threw her arms around me and allowed me to break down into tears. Since I was a bit intoxicated, I proceeded to cry for about two and a half hours! However, through all of it every single one of my friends was there for me to be a shoulder to cry on. Friends I probably should have lost in being such as self-absorbed, relationship centered b*tch but no. They were there 100%.

Since that day, they have been there and I have been making up for lost time. I have been reconnecting and rebuilding friendships with the girls who know me inside and out. They know everything! Even when I try to hide things from them, they see right through me. They scarily can recall even the littlest embarrassing things I have tried to forget. And while they may drive me crazy for calling me out on my shit, I wouldn’t have it any other way. I am truly blessed to have “my loves”.

So as summer starts to draw to a close and we all go our separate ways, I am so thankful for the times we have shared. I know that this summer will be the last we are all together but I now know the friendships I have re-built will last a lifetime. I am also calmed and excited by the fact that I get to go back to another group of bestest friends, the wifeyz. The wifeyz are just as much of a blessing as my friends from home and I could not ask for a better group of girls to share all my college days with. They are beginning to learn all my quirks, habits, and secrets and have truly embraced me for the person I am. I am so thankful to have both of them by my side.

O relacionamento de Lindsay Lohan com Samantha Ronson tem todo o apoio de Dina Lohan, mãe da atriz."Adoro a Samantha. Ela é como uma filha para mim. Elas são grandes amigas e desde que minha filha esteja feliz e saudável, que seja como tem que ser", declarou Dina, numa festa de cosméticos nesta quinta, 17, em Nova York.

Nesta mesma balada, Lindsay apareceu com a namorada Samantha , que foi discotecar no evento. Na saída da comemoração, elas saíram rapidamente de braços dados.

Fonte: EGO

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