S^$&T Happens!

Posted in August 11, 2009 ¬ 5:13 pmh.admin1 Comment »
BEFORE

BEFORE

As far as I can tell, everyone I have known to come back from the Option Insitute (the home of the Autism Treatment Center of America and the Son-Rise Program) is a changed person. In a great way of course. My husband was no exception. Since I’ve known him, Kevin always has…well…how do I say this…taken the long way to making a decision. This has never been a big deal to me, truly, but he always consulted me…his Dad…his mom…his colleagues…the grocery store clerk…everyone…before he would go forth with a decision about something.

Well, when our little master bathroom toilet blew up and ruined the floor, it couldn’t have come at a worst time, but  the change in Kevin became GLARING! All of a sudden, contractors were in and out of my house…and Kevin didn’t ask me, or anyone else for that matter, what we should do about it. WOW! It was great!!

“TGFI — Thank God for Insurance!” That’s all I have to say!

 

Check out the hollywood light!

Check out the Hollywood lighting!

But the change was apparent with both of us. First of all, they came and tore out everything and replaced it with what I called the “Mack Truck.” It was this huge humidifier that was the loudest thing I’d ever heard. It took four days for it to dry out the floor so we slept on the couch and LazyBoy because it was impossible to sleep anywhere near the bathroom! And let’s face it, having all these people coming in and out of your house and making all kinds of weird, loud noises is the ultimate in inconvenience.

But we took it all in stride. I really wasn’t bothered by any of it. Even having to use the guest bathroom (which only has a bathtub) didn’t phase me! I just kept thinking how great it was to 1) have an extra bathroom and 2) getting the bathroom I wanted when I first moved into the place, but ran out of time, energy and money to make it happen. And, it certainly came at a time when, financially, a new bathroom just wasn’t in the budget…but we saved a ton of money just repainting some things and getting some new pretties at places like IKEA and Marshall’s.
Now that's more like it! TGFI (Thank God for Insurance!)

Ahhhh...much better!

It just hit home to me that happiness really is a choice. We can choose to let things bother or frustrate us or we can choose happiness. This applies to little things like bathrooms or big things like autism. For those of you that want to find a path to happiness, The Option Institute offers much more than Son-Rise. It’s the Option Principles that led Barry (Bears) Neil Kaufman and his wife Samahria to create the Son-Rise Program to begin with.

This is yet another reason I feel that autism has blessed my life…I doubt I would have ever found this personal path to JOY! Certainly not over a toilet!!! S&^%T happens! Hurray! 

Love, Lorna

P.S. Isn’t my little bathroom just beautiful?!?!?!?

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  • kimberly says:
    September 10, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    Hey Lorna,
    Thanks for giving me your website to check out. I think it’s wonderful and I look forward to working with and getting to know Ross!
    -Kimberly (the new music therapist)