My husband and I have lived in Winston-Salem for about nine years with our son Harrison.  He is 10 and somewhere on the spectrum, with a lot of sensory issues and severe oral apraxia.  Fortunately, he's also hyperlexic and has been spelling words since about age 2, so he uses an aug/com device to communicate.  We have three cats (Skeeter, Angus and Bo) and a basset/lab mix named Jake-the-dog.  Harrison goes part time to a regular charter school, with the help of an aid.   He spends the rest of the school day at ABC of NC, a developmental center for children with autism.  He is the happiest person I know and the joy of our lives, despite the many challenges.  If we ever get 100% potty trained, I'm throwing a big party!  We're about 93% there, but I look forward to the day when that is no longer an issue. 

I've been a life coach for about 2 years and just completed my certification program with Dave Ellis's program called Coaching from Falling Awake.  I got into life coaching as a client who was looking for some and found that it really spoke to my skills as well as my interests.   It's a juggling  match everyday, but isn't life always that way?