I have been absent.  Not only from my blog, but I feel like I’ve been checked out of parts of my life for more than a year now.  Maybe it was self preservation?  Life finally caught up to me.  I wasn’t being honest about the burdens I was bearing.  I wasn’t asking for help – […]

It’s taken me over a week now to clear my brain and feel like I might be able to attempt the words needed to tell this story.  I have never in my life been so completely floored and blown away by the generosity of others, and believe me that’s a hard feat – we are absolutely surrounded […]

Harry has always been a good sleeper.  It was a little dicey in the beginning (which I would assume in the case with most newborns), and I vividly remember a period of time where he would nap nowhere else but on me, but for the most part it’s been cake.  Currently he is a four-year-old […]

Last year we replaced our very old carpet in the bedrooms of our home.  We went middle of the road – nothing too expensive, nothing too cheap – but I like what we chose.  About a month ago, I was putting away my flimsy box that held all of my nail polish bottles away, when the […]

If you know me, you know I like to keep moving.  Look forward at the next step, move toward it, stay in motion.  This quality has done me wonders after having a special needs child, it has become my safety and my coping mechanism.  Even with a child whose diagnosis has no treatments or cures, […]

Hi friends!  We are back from our very first Disney vacation and I am so excited to tell you all about it.  We were able to go because hubby’s work did a conference at the Disney Swan and Dolphin so the hotel was paid for (for some of the trip).  This is not a vacation […]

Nostalgia hit me hard this week, and it was so, so strange.  I had some time off from work (I worked the beginning of last week and I work the end of this week), so in preparation for vacation and a new job I spent most of the week running around doing this and that.  […]

So if someone out there could figure out the answer to this question, I would greatly appreciate it.  You expected some great wisdom in here, didn’t you?  Well I honestly thought in writing that title, some epiphany would come to me, but here I am still waiting! I write a lot on this blog about parenting […]

    I am a runner – as crazy as it sounds, this phrase still shocks me.  I never thought I could be a runner, or that I wanted to be a runner.  It seemed to out of reach, really because I had put it out of reach.  But here I am, a runner who […]

Parenting is tough, no matter what your situation, and I give all the parents out there some major credit.  This job is challenging, to say the least!  But to my homies, my special needs parents, I’ll give you a little something extra – you guys rock.  This is a crazy club to be a part […]