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.
May 12, 13 by Leave a Comment
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
May 10, 13 by 2 Comments
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]
Home
Apr 16, 13 by Leave a Comment
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]
What every child with special needs should come with.
Apr 9, 13 by 4 Comments
It’s been over eight years since I’ve joined this special needs club. Seriously? I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Yes, there have been hard times. Yes, there have been stressful times and some times when the fear has seemed overwhelming. Yet even with all of that I can look you in the eye and… [Continue Reading]
