Summer is Over!
Summer is Over! Every parent and I mean EVERY parent enjoys the end of summer and the joys of children going back to school. This year was particularly difficult yet beautiful at the same time. Get...
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Count your blessings 1 by 1
Count your blessings 1 by 1 Someone I love called me to share that someone she loved passed away. He was a young boy with several disabilities who gallantly fought to live. Apparently physicians to...
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Who Are You?
Who Are You? A friend sent me an article on Brad Pitt. It was on his inability to remember faces. She recalled me sharing our daughter’s challenges with facial recognition for many years. Brad Pitt...
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Still Anxiety
Still Anxiety Travel was always easy for our family. We started early and made it a point to teach our daughter how to appropriate navigate airports, planes and the endless travel modalities that c...
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I feel SO Alive
I feel SO Alive Our daughter experienced a true first this week. She put her hands on a steering wheel, adjusted her mirror, checked her surroundings and slowly drove off. We were speechless. Our f...
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Can’t Believe the Progress
Can’t Believe the Progress Sooo 10 years ago we could never sit through fireworks. It was simply impossible. Our daughter could not stand the noise or crowd or stimulation. We hid in closets with n...
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Next Level
Next Level Time to celebrate! This week our daughter reaches a milestone- Sweet 16! When your kids grow rapidly before your eyes you cannot believe how fast the time flew by. Years of cries, diaper...
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Farewell to a Good Space
Farewell to a Good Space Our daughter has been privileged to attend a magical campground every summer for nearly a decade. This camp is a place of joy, peace and where one can find their place. Eve...
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Making THEIR own way
Making THEIR own way With every child there becomes a time when you realize they are not mini-versions of yourselves. It can be quite jarring to learn-even through we know this- that we are raising...
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Fiercely Independent
Fiercely Independent This was quite a week. Our daughter finished 10th grade successfully, passed entrance exams to attend college, participated in a fashion show and decided she would be ok with m...
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