The worth of my son with special needs.

When Parker was just a baby, we took him to an Endocrinologist due to his growth issues.  She looked over Parker’s records and then looked at me.  As she stared me straight in the eye she tole me that Parker was a kid not only with severe pulmonary hypertension, but also a kid with Down… [Continue Reading]

An authentically inspired life.

It is important me that I create an authentically inspired life in a world where she who dies with the most toys wins.  I know I can’t do it all and need to seek contentment and find a more simple way of living that my meets my definition of beautiful, regardless of what anyone else… [Continue Reading]

Life doesn’t come with a manual, it comes with a mother.

I am blessed with a wonderful Mother. I’ve also been blessed with other women who have loved, mentored and mothered me as I’ve gone down this path of raising a medically fragile child with special needs.  Women who have allowed me to cry on their shoulders, share my fears and have offered up grand counsel… [Continue Reading]

How to Catch a Rainbow Trout

Parker went to his end of the year class party.  The theme?  How to Catch a Rainbow Trout.  Okay, so that wasn’t really the theme, but fishing was the activity of the day.  Just a few minutes from our house is a fantastic public park with a stocked trout pond, complete with ducks and a… [Continue Reading]

Somehow. One way or another. A story of bullying and love.

My oldest daughter, Bailey is really one of a kind.  When she was little she’d give away her toys to anyone who asked.  She welcomed anyone who wanted to play.  She was happy and beautiful on both the inside and the outside.  Then came the bullying. Bailey had a rough time growing up.  She dealt… [Continue Reading]

Home

Last night Reed took down all the blinds and window treatments from the windows on the back of our house.  This morning I began Spring Cleaning 2013.  I cleaned the inside of our windows top to bottom and in between.  I’ve decided not to put the curtains/valances back up.  I’ve become a minimalist in my… [Continue Reading]