And so it begins. It feels like we’ve been waiting for the beginning of the action portion of our diagnosis forever instead of since, well, the diagnosis. There’s a profound statement for your Monday morning.

Food. Should be simple enough. It's one of the basic needs all of us humans have. Yet, it is becoming clearer and clearer to me how crazy food has become. I mean that literally.
Yesterday, a co-worker asked me if I had thought of doing a food journal for Jacob. A what!? Lady, do you not realize that I work full time, go to school part time, have three kids and a husband? I blog, woman. Whatever this food journal is that you speak of is NOT FOR ME. Well...

This is taken from our Blogger blog (www.perspectiveadventures.blogspot.com) and was origially posted on December 31, 2009.
Per Aspergian ordinance, Jacob doesn't have too many friends. The friends that he has have been "built in" for him since infanthood. A couple neighbors, friends' children and a cousin make up his list of those children that he can freely interact with and enjoy the company of.

This is taken from our Blogger blog (www.perspectiveadventures.blogspot.com) and was origially posted on December 29, 2009.
When we sat in the room receiving the report on Jacob’s diagnosis our first question was, “what now?” It was a little disconcerting when the response didn’t include a list of our next steps. It seemed that adjusting some medications, joining some support groups and hoping for the best was the course of action, and I wasn’t at all comfortable with that.

This is taken from our Blogger blog (www.perspectiveadventures.blogspot.com) and was origially posted on December 28, 2009.

This is taken from our Blogger blog (www.perspectiveadventures.blogspot.com) and was origially posted on December 21, 2009.
The naming of this blog wasn't easy. I didn't want to use any of our recent diagnosises in the title because they might change along the way. The other creative names I came up with were already claimed by other Blogger bloggers. I wanted to use the word 'Adventure' because this is a spin off of our family blog and the word 'adventure' implies a little bit of fun. So, here you go. Welcome to Perceptive Adventures!