2014....this is the year that Abra will age out of school in December. It is a trepidatious time for me wondering what 2015 will hold. Will Abra be living somewhere else and taking her first steps into life away? We have fallen into so many dysfunctional patterns here at home, I know driven wholly by her autism. The food she eats, her bedtime routines, her need for everything in certain plaes and in an exact way. I like to think that somewhere new for her to live will mean a whole new world of exploration away from the cloying necessity for all that is the same in my house. A liberation for her, for a short while until new patterns emerge.