I've been away from the blog for a few days due to some internet issues. We were having DNS issues. The amazing thing is that I didn't even realize we had a DNS until suddenly it was giving us problems. Apparently AT&T is having issues and this was our week for them. Whoo Hoo.
What I was not ready for was J's reaction to this issue. Now, J loves to be on the computer. He loves to create video games, play video games that other people have created, and watch clips of some of his favorite shows. The first day or so of no internet he came up with different ideas of things he could do on the computer but by day three he began to hit the wall. There were just too many things he needed to get access to that required the internet. I kept discovering him trying to discover a way to fix the DNS issue. He tried shutting off the computer, then he tried opening another window in the browser. He tried various other ways to access the internet (ipad, laptop, cell phone) but they either didn't work or didn't do what he wanted them to do. It was all a lesson in futility. I finally sat him down and tried to explain what the DNS was and how it was not something that we had any control over. We just had to wait for AT&T to fix the problem and there was nothing we could do to make it work any faster. We had a moment when he discovered that we could get internet access from the church in our backyard and I had to stop him from trying to carry the desktop computer into the backyard.
Whew, things are finally back to normal and the internet is restored but it really got me thinking. There was not a single thing we could do about the fact that we had no internet. We couldn't pretend it was working, we couldn't make our own internet, we also couldn't fall apart. Life went on and we just had to make adjustments. I had to wait to post on my blog, J had to be patient, Brandon had to go to work to do internet related work, and we all had to just be patient and creative in finding ways to do things we were used to using the internet to do. I realized that this is pretty much what has happened to us since we got the boys diagnosis of Autism. We've could have pretended it wasn't autism and everything was normal but that would have been silly, we couldn't fix them since no one knows how to fix Autism, we could (and for a while did) fall apart but there wasn't much use in that. What we had to do was get creative and be patient and that has pretty much been every day since then.
So, why would a faithful God allow the internet to go down for several days when it's such a central part of our life? Well, it taught us that there are other ways to pass our time and allowed us to learn some creativity and flexibility.
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