if you could buy anything......

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Thu, 06-08-2006 - 10:36pm

If you could buy anything for your child, what would you buy?


Books, hippotherapy, stimulation equipment, duct tape? ;)


Also in this thread, give me an idea of what is in your house that you would not be able to survive without (regarding your child).


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Sat, 06-10-2006 - 12:00am

ROFL!


This is a great thread....not only am I getting ideas, I'm laughing a lot too.


I'm with ya on going organic and the cleaning person.

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Sat, 06-10-2006 - 12:13am

WOW! Only $300 to your yearly food bill? Where do you shop? Can I come?

OK, I have 4 kids who are great eaters (despite being slim) and go through food like there is no tomorrow. My organic-ish grocery bill is disgusting. I have had to back off on some of the organics because we just don't have the money. Back to regular cheerios and rice, etc. Still as fresh and organic as possible and my monthly grocery bill here in S. Cali is probably pushing 800 a month to 1K. Of course I have travelled cross country in the past few years and I know groceries in California are more expensive than other areas. We call it the sun tax or paying taxes on sunshine.

But overall I would say that even partial or mostly organic has pushed my grocery bill by at least 100-200 a month and that is a conservative estimate.

You may want to ask for more on that grant.

Speaking of which I have NEVER heard of a grant for raising SN kids. Where does one go about finding such a thing?

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Sat, 06-10-2006 - 1:33am

If money were object I'd buy the 5 acre plot down the street from my mom and landscape it with all sorts of sensory stuff. My kids like pools, but when we had one in our back yard they hardly ever used it. I'm thinking a play-in water feature with babling brook and a waterfall. They REALLY like those kinds of things. And I'd pay my AS DH to stay home so he could vollunteer at the charities he likes instead of getting overstressed at work and stimming his nights and weekends away. I'd also buy stock in Godiva, and maybe a Starbucks.

Things I can't live without? Bouncy Balls. I'm with ya'll on that one! Have three. Our second dining room table, really need the space... heaven forbid we interupt a science of craft project to do something silly, like eat dinner. DVD player in the living room. Found that out tonight when it died... after the meltdown began DH got the deer in the headlights look and made haste in transfering his from our bedroom out to the kid's TV. He said he was afraid for his life, lol. Then there's Poe doll(the teletubie), Strawberry Shortcake The Movie, my 25 lbs bags of flour (serious sensory play there), and my computer. Oh, and high quallity colored ink pens (not mine, my 11yo HFA dd's).

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Sat, 06-10-2006 - 10:47pm

Well, this is only for two people, lol.

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Sat, 06-10-2006 - 11:30pm

LOL!!!!!!


I know I would totally get in trouble if my DVD player stopped working.

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