Monthly Archives: February 2009

Winners!

Our Cell Keeper winner is: #26 Chris N. The winner of our first My Wonderful Walls contest is: #39 Rebecca from Living In Rainbow WorldNursery Murals Nursery Murals I’ll be contacting you soon!

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New and routine

It feels surreal I watch her bravery slip as her lips quiver and her eyes fill with tears while Nick twists and turns measures and adjusts Am I dreaming? Watching her stiffly walk as her hair moves in the breeze she creates assessing her mechanized steps for the smallest abnormality or trouble or quirk Isn’t…

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A Rare Disease and Hannah’s Fight

February 28th is Rare Disease Day: http://www.rarediseaseday.org/ For many parents having a child receive a diagnosis can be heartbreaking. But add the words ‘rare’ and ‘fatal’ to that diagnosis and heartbreak turns into terror. Where do you find doctors to help in your child’s fight for life? Are there treatments? Are there others out there…

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The Babysitter

I needed a babysitter, and I was at a loss. At the time, my three boys were eight, six, and one and a half. Finding a sitter for three young children is not easy under the best of circumstances, but since our oldest Matthew is autistic finding help was a tremendous challenge. Our usual choice…

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Expectations.

  Last week we went to Malachy’s IEP interview. We talked about reading and writing and comprehension and all the things that the teacher thought we wanted to hear about. Key learning areas that must be important to some parents but for us, for Mal, are the least of what we want for him. Mal…

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My Works of Art

I watched a lot of home improvement and home makeover shows on HGTV this weekend. I got many wonderful ideas about what I could do to my home, but unfortunately, I didn’t win the lottery Friday night to provide the funds for those renovations and decorating. But one thing I kept hearing repeated on most…

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The Problem Isn’t Really The Problem

Don’t get me wrong, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome presents itself in the form of many problems for my son and our family. But sometimes, well, sometimes the problem isn’t really the problem. We are a homeschool family and over the past year we have not seemed to accomplish much. It was decided that Lee was the…

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Special Exposure Wednesday.

  There are ways around being ‘scared’ of the swimming pool. Ivy makes the most of a hot afternoon. Got some fun times to share? Join in the fun at Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three Ring Circus    

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Things you wish you didn’t know

I would love to tell you that all went well with Peyton’s clinic visit last week. I would also like to tell you that I have no idea what complete heart failure feels like. However, either statement would be a LIE! Unlike the poor readers on my personal blog, I won’t make YOU all wait…

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Try This Tuesday #32: What Should I Try?

If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: What Should I Try? Share something that has you currently looking for answers or ideas and we can all help each other brainstorm. My planned guest post did not come about this week, so I…

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