I think I even surprised myself with how much hope I had put into this year’s educational plan. I wanted this to be the year that Parker made up the gap between his age and where he should be academically. Or at least pass off each of his IEP goals. Things started off in high…
Category Archives: Day In And Day Out
Try This Tuesday #36: Helping A “New” Special Needs Parent
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: Helping a “New” Special Needs Parent. What would you say to someone who has just learned that…
Please don’t pity me because I have a kid with special needs
Saturday, my friend Sharon called. She’s an old friend from college, we talk a couple of times a year. She and her family are coming to our area Easter Sunday weekend, and she was going to stay at our house. When I spoke with her last week, she thought that maybe our family and hers…
3.21.09 Celebrate Down Syndrome And Help Bring Kellsey Home
Around the world today people who love a child with Down syndrome are celebrating the beauty found within an extra chromosome. http://momseatofpants.blogspot.com 50 years ago most parents of a child with Down syndrome were told to hand their newborn off to an institution, because these children weren’t able to learn and would be nothing but…
Eardrop Loathing.
Every few weeks it’s the same. Ivy gets an ear infection and her ears start to discharge. One of the joys of being immune deficient, I guess. Her ear goop grows all sorts of weird and wonderful things, ranging form your stock standard Staph all the way to various spores and fungii. When your body…
Making a Difference
Have you experienced problems with a business or company that discourages shoppers with disabilities? Have you felt unwelcome when walking through the door of a store where the associates look down on you or your child with a disability? Would you like to take a vacation but have found it tough to travel with your…
Try This Tuesday #35: Disciplining Your Child
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: Disciplining Your Child. The person who suggested this topic specifically asked about the teenage years, so if…
The Head Banging. It Is Intense.
In the last six months Parker has gone from a quiet, sedate kid, to an independent, knows exactly what he wants kind of dude. I like a man who knows what he wants. But not so much a kid who bangs his head against the nearest, hardest thing to get it. Although, now that I…
Special Exposure Wednesday.
Ivy is wired for sound! Being wired up for a sleep study last night. Oh the things we do! Got something to share this Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three Ring Circus
Living With Cerebral Palsy Doesn’t Mean He Isn’t All Boy
It was an ordinary afternoon…sun shining, me doing laundry created by dirty boys…the boys outside playing and creating more dirty laundry…when I looked out the window onto our front lawn and saw the boys playing fetch with Ursula, our dog. Because you know, what is the point of enduring the pain and rehab of multiple…