the start of our holiday letter. Might as well say it like it is. :)

[Guest guest]

It has now been 1127 days, 7 hours, 3 minutes, and 26 seconds that we have been homeschooling XXXXX. YYYYY remains at school and started the 6th grade, junior high, this year. Both kids are doing very well, although as parents, we are now in the late stages of autism parental burnout. APB is closely related to the psychological condition known as learned helplessness and explains our continual glazed over, expressionless faces and lack of attempts to escape our house any longer, invite others over, or answer our phone. Similar to the 1967 Seligman and Maier experiment in dogs, we have gradually become habituated to our situation. Please take this into consideration if we have ignored you my dear friends and family.