Welcome to another Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Nurturing Your Relationships. How do you make the time to connect with other adults and maintain the…
Category Archives: Day In And Day Out
What Parents of Refluxers Daydream About…
A family room with wall-to-wall linoleum, a hose reel and a drain. So Now You Know… 😉 Find out more about Michelle Read Michelle’s weekly column Meet Michelle here each Monday for Magic Marker Monday Questions? Please feel free to email Michelle at childlif[at]gmail[dot]com or come and visit her at In The Life of a…
The Aspergian Teenage Mind (in all of its wonder)
Hi! My name is Shash, and I write at Diary of a Crazed Mommy. My son, Spiff, is 14 and is an Aspergian teenager in middle school. I thought it would be a great way to get to know him better if I kept him up past his bedtime (non-medicated, and on a school night,…
My “reality hits” moment that I had a special needs child
 We have known for a few months now that our 8-month-old Hannah has this neurodegenerative brain disease that was likely going to take her away from us in a few years. We know what the symptoms are, we know the process it is going to take…we know all of that. We know she is…
Somewhere In Between…
I don’t know this place well — this place of no eminent crisis. This place where it’s safe for me to relax my guard just a wee little bit. This place where relative security still doesn’t quite equate with “normal”. Whatever “normal” is. This place of in between. I know how to manage a crisis,…
A One Pound Miracle from God
 I would like to introduce to you, Kayleigh Anne Freeman (A One Pound Blessing from God)  Death or Life. Which would you choose when several doctors tell you there’s nothing you can do to save your unborn child’s life? Have you ever held a 13 ounce baby in the palm of your hands…
Conversations Without Words
Dear Parker, Today was quite the day for you. You started learning how to climb up the stairs. It was hard work. You were a such trooper too. Right until you had had enough and let us know it by looking your PT straight in the eye and waving ‘Bye-Bye’. Which actually translated into “Don’t…
Try This Tuesday #37: Having a Little Fun
Welcome to another Try This Tuesday. For details on how to participate, please check out the welcome post. If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Having A Little Fun. Is there an activity you’ve done with your child or something your child…
The Things We Do For Our Children…
Once upon a time, there were certain things I never would have seen myself doing. Some of them were typical parenting things that I was yet blissfully unaware of. You know what I mean. Fishing peas out of nostrils, scrubbing Desitin out of cat fur, wiping peanut butter finger paintings off of walls — that…
The Concept.
Last week our dog died. It was all pretty sudden. One day Nelson was there and the next day he wasn’t. Explaining to a three year old about death is not an easy thing. We talked about how he was a very sick puppy and that he had to go to the vet but the…