Adventures in Autism

This weekend B is with his father, so I am childless and carefree!  Being a single mom, I absolutely cherish the downtime I get when my son is visiting his dad.  I love that he gets to bond with his father and that I get a little respite from the intense parenting experience that goes along with being B’s mom.

How do I spend these child-free weekends?  Good question.  I’m afraid the answers are not that exciting.  B cannot stand it when I wash his clothes.  He thinks the washing machine is an instrument of the devil and flips out anytime I place an item of his into the washer.  This means that every two weeks, I do all of his laundry.  I also try to meet up with friends for lunch, dinner, or a movie on occasion.  I run lots of errands as well.  There are several places where it is just not easy to take B, so I try to get those errands run on the weekends without him.  He does not do well in malls, so my mall shopping is now done exclusively on dad weekends.  Oil changes, stores with mass quantities of breakable items, and hair appointments are also done on dad weekends.

Occasionally I sneak in a date here and there, but that’s a topic for another post sometime in the future.

This weekend I have an action-packed set of clothes to wash, and I will take advantage of my built-in alarm clock being gone and sleep in a bit as well.  My life is so exciting, I know you all wish you could live it with me.