Everyone needs a little Elmo.

Got all choked up reading your mom's words. My kids have a phenomenal relationship with my parents, and I can see that Simon has the same with yours. Just wonderful and sweet and so the best thing.

Hi Ali!
Thanks so much for sharing your journey with Simon. We have a 9 year old with Asperger's Syndrom (diagnosed when he was 6). He has come so far, but sometimes the reality of it all can be so much. It helps to know we are not alone. Today I found out he is hitting and kicking...really nice kids. I feel so lost and along, and helpless. Where do you go? What do you do?
{{Hugs}}

Family is so Awesome! Some of my best memories are of summer's spent with my grandparents, traveling around the U.S. Lucky Simon!

i always want to post links from itunes too. sucks that you can't.
the photos that your mom took are SO amazing! :) She is a gem! :)
Really inspired by your badge for Simon. That is really cool! :)

i love those photos so much. isn't it awesome to watch your parents with their grandchild?? it's a bit surreal to me sometimes.
i love your blog and work...i always find so much inspiration through you!
thanks!
Kim

Your mom is so cool! My kids and I just got back from spending the afternoon with my parents and it's just so wonderful to witness all that love. We are truly blessed by parents who want to be with our kids and nurture them just as they nurtured us.

what a sweet mom...

Sweet Post from your mom! Love moms!
If you have time: here is a link to a free art ezine..with contributing writers such as Claudine Helmuth and Lesley Riley.
http://www.studioastarte.com.au/refer/ais.html
Also this site..www.thepeaceofpaper.com. If you want a mindless thing to do with a peice of paper...sometimes I like mindless. HA!
Hope So. Ca. is on your list of TO DO's soon!

Thanks for sharing the photos. I am here in Virginia and my grandparents lived in CoosBay - I don't get there very often since they died. Beautiful country!
Denise

Get well soon! Dear Ali!!

Mums (yes, that's how we spell in in Asutrlaia) just rock don't they?
Lou

Mums (yes, that's how we spell in in Asutrlaia) just rock don't they?
Lou

lol that would be Australia....we can usually spell :P
Lou

ALI
YOU HAVE BEEN DRAWN ON :
{ThE fReNcH tOuCh}
http://prolix.typepad.fr
(to see the drawing of you it's on the blog, merci for looking)
Bonne journée!!!
Prolix

I don't know if you watch Anderson Cooper, but they shared a youtube video from an autsitic woman and I thought of you. The one they aired was My Language http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc
However her other videos are also so thought provoking and enlightening you might enjoy them as well.
I find your work very inspiring and your thought process about scrapbooks very modern and what I always wanted scrapbooks to be.

I loved the photos and it's now on my places 'to visit'! Isn't it wonderful when family can share their love with each other? We just returned from 5 days in Florida (Ft. Myers Beach) with our son and his family. Our grandsons have grown so much since we saw and hugged them last June!
Sue

Ali,
Your wallpaper (on your computer screen) matches mine!
(That must mean you're pretty cool!)
;)

Your mom ROCKS. Now it's easy to see why you're such a centered person, Ali. Like mother, like daughter!!
Those photos make me want to visit the west coast so badly!!

When I grow up, I wanna be a grandma *just like* your mom. :) I've already warned my kids. I told them the other day I was going to be one of those *all-up-in-your-bidnis* granmas...my 18 yr old son leaned over and gave me a kiss, and told me he couldn't wait. :)

Hi Ali! Love your mom's photos! I can see where you got your eye for photography. Just wanted to send you a link http://jodigoins.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/joy-one-week.jpg to a page I did from the first challenge (9 squares) in your book, A designer's Eye for Scrapbooking with Patterned Paper. It's the first challenge I've ever done. What fun! Thanks for all of your inspiration- not just with scrapbooking- but with motherhood and life.
Jodi