Author Archives: Gina

Gina St. Aubin is a mother of 3, one diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy, PDD-NOS, Sensory Processing Disorder, and Landau-Kleffner Syndrome (a rare epileptic disorder causing verbal aphasia) . A former Victim's Advocate turned advocate for those with intellectual and physical challenges, Gina believes being a 'Special Parent' means to discover, embrace, educate, advocate, encourage, treasure and laugh.

A Home Crossroads

We’ve thought about moving. There’s nothing’s wrong with our house, we love it…but we felt trapped. Trapped with houses all around us, nothing to look at, no escape from the special kind of race we’re running, no reprieve, no privacy to speak as we will without the entire neighborhood in on our private conversations…if we…

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We’re at Camp – A Place I Never Thought We’d Be

Amid the chaos, we’re also off to camp. Today, is our second day here – third counting check in and the wine and cheese social that was planned for the first day…that was new. Camp is a relatively new experience for us. This is our second year, and we’re in the mountains of Colorado with…

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Stop Staring at the Screen

STOP LOOKING! …at that screen I tell myself as I watch the squiggly lines of blue, green and red make their mark on the EEG monitor. It’s not like it’s going to tell me anything. It’s not like I’m going to stare hard enough, long enough, likely drying out my contacts…and decipher electroencephalograms on this…

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I Am That Tiger

I originally posted this years ago when I blogged under the name “Mia Hysteria”…yes, you know, General Hysteria. Don’t go looking, that site is no longer up. I’ve since come to peace with our family’s life and what was that blog’s purpose is no more. Digressing…. But this piece still holds true for me. Does…

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Sleepless

I just noticed a not so funny thing about our home. Our routine has changed, our expectations or what can be expected in the nights shortly after we put our kiddos to bed, has changed. In the past, a pitter-patter of feet excitedly ‘sneaking’ across the floor could be heard within minutes of sending our…

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Summer will happen, if I can get my paperwork done

With spring comes the cleaning. Moving through closets, changing out clothes, making the donation pile, giving your kiddos the spray bottle and a cloth to clean whatever windows they can reach (a great way entertain them too). But it’s also the time for more paperwork. For our family, this means we’re looking at summer programs,…

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The Memory of When All This Began

Finding my desk seems to be a monthly routine. Find it. Bask in the warmth of my clean office, with my most favorite dinning table turned into desk in plain site, no longer engulfed with the bills paperwork…until the month comes around and I fulfill the same process again. It has its perks. This month…

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A lesson in strengthening a marriage

I think about the changes in our marriage. How I personally viewed it, treated it…not as I do now. Time has given me new perspective. The challenges we’ve faced have forced the change to be. There were times I thought he was just too crabby. Not having a good outlook, too negative, refusing to see…

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How far he’s come. How far we have to go.

She wailed that B had her popcorn. Popcorn being used loosely as the container that once held popcorn kernels, gladly accepted by her at its end as an addition to her kitchen belongings….this thing that B was handling in front of her (the nerve) with an item of his already stuffed inside. To keep my…

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My Angel

I knew that my body was giving everything to this little person growing inside me. I knew my life would never be the same; that our lives would never be the same. There were no words to express the happiness I knew my belly contained. I knew that this little being was my angel; my…

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