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Fifteen years of loving A&A

Happy Birthday Archimedes and Aubrey

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Doing the Hard Things

We left our seim a bit late today. We’ve been having a bery

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Squiddo is 16

Learning to weave Everyone else is making a placemat, 24 strands by 24. I’m doing 8×8. 16 strands will make a coaster. Small achievements still matter. Last night I was telling Inigo how proud of them I feel. “I’m proud of myself too”, was their reply. This year has been so challenging. I wish I could go back and tell my past self that this is where we are at 16. We made it.

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The Everything Book

I wrote this over lockdown for the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children, for their Tall Poppies Magazine. But since I keep losing the link, I thought I had better reproduce the article here so I maintain a copy of it. The Everything Book Tracking, scheduling, planning, without judgement Lara Nettle 01:06:2021 Neurodiversity and Executive Dysfunction Hi, I’m Lara, and I have ADHD. I’m…

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Winning!

Thanks to @fartmarbles on Tik Tock, I have successfully programmed my first nfc shortcut, to tell my phone I’ve taken my morning meds. A shortcut to tick off a recurring reminder when my phone taps the nfc sticker on my pill case. More public speaking, a completed assessment (not marked, just pass/fail, and I’m assuming a pass since no news is good news), finally got the paperwork to the lawyer…

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October Update

September brought a weekend away – my first knitting retreat since that world exploded on me. My first “respite” weekend, and a chance to see friends I don’t see often, and friends I’d never met in person before. On Thursday, I started to feel back pain. By Friday, I was depending on painkillers to keep me going. I wandered around Wellington and had as much fun as I was capable of. Any…

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September, 2022

Since the beginning of 2020, like many people, life has felt very contained, and slow, and measured. We’ve had wins and losses, but for us this weird period has been pretty gentle. So far, 2022 is shaping up to be a lot more, well, interesting. Inigo got accepted into the accelerated maths program at school, which has been a mixed blessing. They have had to spend a bit more effort getting to…

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Happy Pride!

It’s pride day at Squiddo’s school, so they needed the Non-Bunnary shirt I designed to be washed ready for wear. No other shirt would do. Non-Bunnary

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This is fourteen. The older this kid gets, the more authentically themselves they are. And we are so lucky to be surrounded by such lovely people. A call out to the Monday afternoon boardgames group, and we had an impromptu socially distanced picnic party. After three months of lockdown, pizza in the front yard was a massive deal. There will be a proper party to come, but today was perfect. Just…

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Happy Birthday Archimedes and Aubrey

Eleven years since we met. You’ve changed me profoundly. I love you. And that love barely hurts any more. Loving you has been the scariest thing I’ve ever done, and the thing I’ve learned the most from. Losing you has been the most profound, epic, and achingly raw experience of my life. But with that loss has come a richness and depth that has been one of the greatest gifts of my very…

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It’s Raining Them

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Grateful

Just had my first vaccination, efficiently and professionally administered. My vaccinator was happy to answer my questions (though she didn’t immediately know the answers, I like to keep them on their toes!).

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A visit from afar

Dad arrived from Sydney a few days before my birthday, and it’s been wonderful to have him here after about 18 months apart. He’s going home today. We’ll miss you Gonad!

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Family dinner I’ve just updated the firmware on my new coffee cup (thanks mum & dad!), and given up on thanking people for birthday Facebook messages. I’ve spent the day at work, with some of my favourite kids and people, being around such positive energy and happiness is a brilliant way to spend the day. I got some incredibly thoughtful gifts, some gorgeous cards, and as a bonus three kids…

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Tales from High School

Squid has just started high school in what is probably the most progressive high school in the country. He’s been giving his pronouns as he/him/they/them – and most are assuming he’s non-binary, despite him explicitly telling them he’s cis, but wants to be an ally. The fact that the teachers are supportive is great, but we have a lot more work to do. And yesterday, he said he’s noticed that…

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Day one, college

In his favourite shirt The powhiri was amazing and I cried. The school is the first in the world to enmesh the best of Māori cultural practice into the best of pakeha education. Where the school not only pays lip service, but genuinely reflects the respect all of us should have for the culture. Most of the speeches were in Te Reo, with apologies to those of us that don’t posses the gift that is…

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Tomorrow

This kid starts high school. Ready for anything He’s had three years away from conventional mainstream education, and I could not be prouder of the young human he’s become. With amazing support from Diana, Bron, and Andrea (and many others!), he’s decided he’s now ready to take a step back into mainstream and start high school with his age cohort. Our local school has a brilliant reputation,…

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