April is Autism Awareness Month. Here is my first contribution to raising autism awareness in April of 2008. The faces of autism spectrum conditions in my house. I have never posted a picture of my children before on this blog, meet my two sweethearts.
Easter fun with the cutest little Basset Hound puppy watching.
On a marathon hike with Pops checking out some local wildlife (non-venemous of course).
A lot of media attention this month will play to those that “suffer” from autism. Autism can most definitely be trying for parents and those dealing with the condition however I wanted to put a happy face to autism.
Today is April 1st, also known as April Fool’s Day. I rarely play any jokes on this day anymore. This is because everyone that knows me, except for maybe my nephews, knows better than to believe anything I say on 4/1. A few years ago, when my nephew was about six months old, I made my parents, sister and ultimately my brother-in-law pretty mad.
I was sitting at work and was rather bored so I had some idle time to think of an April Fool’s Day joke. I ended up calling my sister and told her that I was on the website Babycenter.com (this was my pre-mommy days so I wasn’t aware of natural parenting). Anyhow, I told her that I had seen a Gerber ad and the picture was my nephew! I told her I had submitted his picture as the new Gerber baby. Well she believed it. LOL When I told her it was April Fool’s Day she was not exactly pleased but evidently not too upset because later in the day she used the same line with her husband. He was not amused though. hehe
A bit later I used it on my dad and he was all excited until he figured out it was a joke and told me in no uncertain terms that he did not find it funny. I managed to get to my mom before anyone warned her and again once she figured out it was a joke she wasn’t happy. She actually said a bad word and hung up the phone on me. LOL Everyone laughs about it now but my nephew was the first grandchild so the sun rose and set on him.
So my family knows not to listen to me today but I did manage to get a jab in with a body repair shop that has my car. My mom backed into my car in her driveway about a month ago and the shop that is fixing it also fixed my car last year after I had a meeting with a concrete wall on the freeway. The gentleman in charge of the repairs is a great guy. He called yesterday to tell me my car was ready so I called him back this morning and told him I wouldn’t be able to pick it up for two weeks. I only let him stammer for about 20 seconds before I felt bad and told him that I’d be in tomorrow morning as we originally planned hehe. Evidently he’s been the recipient of a few April Fool’s Day jokes this morning.
So thinking back, I decided to do a little search on the history of April Fool’s Day and ran across the April Fools R Us site. Here is an excerpt from the site:
The history of April Fool’s Day or All Fool’s Day is uncertain, but the current thinking is that it began around 1582 in France with the reform of the calendar under Charles IX. The Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year’s Day was moved from March 25 - April 1 (new year’s week) to January 1.
