As I am typing this Winter Solstice is winding down and I am rejoicing, not in the pagan holiday sense, but in the “Hooray! Days will start getting longer again,” sense. I have been considering the “seasons” that our family goes through each year. Of course we tread through the normal calendar with everyone else,…
Category Archives: Education
Report Card
For some students the words “report card” are stress inducing. I only remember being worried about my report card three times in my life: sixth grade (I was worried that I wouldn’t make the cut for middle school), the year in high school that I took geometry (my lowest grade ever), and my first semester in…
My dream…
I have this dream for all of us, I dream that one day we all can walk in to “Our Toy Store” and find our kids playing in the aisles. That there are toys available to try and see if they’d work for our children. Where we’re not ordering from catalogs at home, but instead…
Inclusion Runs Deep (Or It Should, Anyway)
For those of you who don’t know my story… yet (and for those who do, sorry, you’ll have to suck it up and read it again), My beautiful Boys are a matched pair who also happen to have an extra copy of the 21st chromosome. Yes, my amazing 5-year-old identical twins have Down syndrome. That…
Savor the Simple Things This Holiday Season
It is late in the evening, my daughters are tucked into bed, the house is restored to order and the lights are turned down low, I am weary from the physical act of being in motion all day- spread thin between appointments, a desk buried with work, a home that needs tending and Zoe’s constant…
An Introduction to an Out of Tune Mom
My hopes are that you find this worth reading; my hopes are you come back and read again. My hopes are that this blog will not only give you a picture of our life…as we live it…but also picture of what has worked for us. I am married to Steve (15 years), and a Stay…
Life as we know it
(reposted from the HennHouse) We’ve traded late night, happy hour dates for early morning mini conferences on raising spiritually healthy special needs kids. And we wouldn’t change a thing… We’ve traded Big Ten athletic events for seventh grade basketball tryouts. And we wouldn’t change a thing… We’ve traded philosophical discussions about politics and superpowers for…
Advising New Parents
It’s that time of year again – time to buy school supplies, Fall clothes, and healthy snacks for the school lunch box. It’s time to pay the exorbitant school fees for our children’s FREE education. And it’s time for parents of children with disabilities to see if they will face more battles with their school…
Preschool Decision
My husband and I are pretty conservative–I’m not talking about politics (I almost never am)–but just our general life decisions. We prefer things cooked from scratch–we don’t even own a microwave. I stay at home and my husband goes out and earns the money. Even before Charlie was born, we thought that I might end…
Satisfaction
I’m sure that every mother has things that make her proud of her mothering skills–some activity or item that causes you to pat yourself on the back and say, “Good Job.” Perhaps you feel especially good if you manage to get the whole family seated around the dinner table. Maybe a spotless bathroom fills you…