Aging out

My little guy turns 3 next week & will officially age out of the Early Intervention program. He's progressed so much recently, but verbally only still says "mama" and "baby." It was always difficult to come straight home from work & have the therapists waiting right when I get home. Now that it's over, I feel so vulnerable and like I'm facing this alone.

Podcasts

A list of podcasts I like, all available on ITunes:

A Quiet Mind
Autism Podcast
Autism Research Institute
Green 960 - Rachel Maddow
Irish & Celtic Music Podcast
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Reviews
Meditation Oasis
NPR: All Songs Considered
NPR: Most E-Mailed Stories Podcast
NPR: Story of the Day Podcast
NPR: World Story of the Day Podcast
RTE - Morning Ireland
The Bugle - Audio Newspaper for a Visual World
The Onion Radio News

Lloyd's

Going to meet an old work friend I re-connected with through Facebook. We're having lunch at Lloyd's on Wacker. I remember last time I was there, the seafood was very fresh & well-priced, hard to come by in Chicago. That said, the last time I had lunch there my firm paid for the lunch. For a while, I was the welcome wagon for new employees & one of the perks of that was to take them out to lunch on their first day. In this economy, we haven't hired anyone new in quite a while.
A sad side note, I wore makeup today - I'm not sure my friend will recognize me in my usual daytime state as the last time we saw each other was before I had kids. :)