It’s taken 3.5 years to work with my son to learn something so simple, but that is what special needs looks like. Today we celebrate a BIG STEP DOWN with Down Syndrome.
Category: Marginal Parenting
10 Years of A Family Costume Rule, And What We’ve Learned From It (In Pictures)
For 10 years our family has dressed as a group, growing from 4 characters up to 9 at the most (including foster children)! See it all in pictures, and hear some things we have learned while dressing as a family team and theme. It’s so difficult in today’s world to find consistent connection with your family. We do it any way we can, including things that are awkward like dressing up a family of 8!
18,629 Days and Counting- A Letter to My Parents
He mentioned it again today. Let me explain. I decided, with a heart full of passion and drive, that I was destined, CREATED, God-breathed into being for the purpose of being a writer. I decided this when I was 9 years old, and the first person I told was my father. Boy
The Up-shot Angle of a Child’s View
Lil Bit: Mama, I made you a bowl of soup, so you don’t forget to eat lunch. I made the chips look like a rose! Sometimes we underestimate their awareness, the small things that they take note of. It is as if from that lower vantage point they see us
The Knock That Shook Our World
We thought it was an Amazon Delivery, of all things. I had just returned home from a long needed night out with a good friend, a fellow mom of many. My daughter and I bounded to the door, excited to see which of us got to open whatever it