First Post!

I have been waffling back & forth over starting a blog for the past few months..... at the New Year seems as good a time as any, so here I am!

Some more background (essentially what had to be dumped from my "About Me" section because it was too long- can you say "newbie"?):

I decided to blog because I have enjoyed reading other blogs (particularly Diane Duane's "Out of Ambit" http://outofambit.blogspot.com/) & have also decided that writing on a regular basis would be a good discipline- maybe good therapy, too! My main concern in life right now is, with my husband, raising our son who has Asperger's Syndrome, as well as Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder & Tourettes Syndrome. Some long names for our young boy! In this blog I plan to talk about how we are trying to raise our developmentally disabled child to be the person he hopes to be, while still maintaining our sanity in a crazy world. I certainly couldn't do this without my husband/life partner! It all dovetails pretty nicely with the Jedi philosophy, too..... perhaps helped to midwife it. Meaning that I'm not sure I would have thought very much about what Yoda would be doing in my situation if life weren't so challenging at times. Plus, as my beloved B has gotten older, I've been able to share some of the movies & my philosophy with him bit by bit..... which has made me look more closely at what I do believe & where I find inspiration. It all sure is intertwined- like the Force!

This blogging is going to be a learning experience for me..... I'm still figuring out where everything is. May the Force be with me! :)