I catch myself…staring out the window at the way the sun reflects off the wet grass, or how the moon seems to look like a smiley face tonight. My mind wanders and I think….(what should I cook for dinner, I need gas in the car, we’re out of diapers, my parents arrive on Friday, there’s…
Category Archives: Day In And Day Out
Dealing With Stress
How do you deal with stress? It’s obvious that most parents of kids with special needs deal with more stress than the average parent. But how you deal with it can make all the difference in the world. Internalizing it? BAD. Finding a healthy way to release it? GOOD. How do I deal with stress?…
If We Build It…
Tying in with last week’s playground challenge, I thought I’d take a moment to tell you about a project I’ve been involved with since last September. This is a “to be continued…” post since the project is not complete yet, but I wanted to get started on the story. A friend of ours is an…
More Sex Talk
Today we continue our conversation from last week regarding sexuality and special needs adults. This installment will covers “having the talk” and “safe sex and contraception”. Even if your child is young, this is information that you should want to know as a special needs parent or guardian.
What Do You Do “Just In Case”?
I’m getting ready to take a trip. Before you start dreaming of vacations in far off sunny places, it’s not that. It’s an overnight trip, rushing a visit that would be unthinkable not to take, to pay respects. Yet, as I ready for this, ready for the week, looking forward in our family calendar to…
The thing that scares me more than anything
Today’s post is hard to share, because it’s about something that happened here, on this site, last week. We all deal with judgment from outsiders as parents of special needs kids, but judgment from one of our own – from another parent facing those same hurts – brings up a whole new set of fears…
A School Day or Sick Day?
Send ’em? Keep ’em home? Send ’em? Keep ’em home? You recite the words over and over again as you pluck the petals from the cut flowers sitting in the vase? (LOL, there’s a luxury I don’t enjoy often!) Eeny, Meany, Miney Moe? Paper, Scissors, Rock? Or with the flip of a coin? How do…
Treatment in the dentist office…
So sorry, this week has gotten away from me & I didn’t even realize it was Saturday! So I hope you like this I posted on our Blog Last June… ok, pet peeve so you may want to skip this post. It may seem like a tiny, small, insignificant to you but it urked me…
He Has Feelings Too
This was originally posted on my blog but I wanted to share it here. I am interested to see how many of you has experienced something similar to this. I am hoping not too many, but sadly, it’s more likely that you have encountered this in one form or another. A few weeks back, my…