Utah has the greatest snow on earth. I know this because just about every car in the state proclaims this very thing on their license plate. So, it’s gotta be true. I see snowboarders and skiers wearing shorts flying down the mountains in March even. Personally I feel that March is an obscene month to…
Category Archives: Day In And Day Out
It’s all great in theory
This weekend found us celebrating Peyton’s 5th birthday. Each milestone is still amazing to me. I know there is still fear in my heart that each birthday that passes could be her last. I celebrate a little harder. I want to make her big day a little shinier. I feel this need to make sure…
Try This Tuesday #21: Expected Behavior
One of my son’s biggest issues is the difficulty he has with taking another person’s perspective. Now this is perhaps not totally uncommon in six year olds (LOL), but because he has trouble figuring out what other people are thinking and feeling, it is often hard for him to know what behavior is expected of…
Choosing To See Beauty…
Parenthood. It all started out so simply. A blank canvas of wonderful plans, hopes and dreams. Nothing but a future full of potential — potential that I had filled with my own ideas of how it would be. But then something happened. And then something more. Shadows on my crisp white sheet of parenting plans….
Interesting news item about DS
Down’s births rise despite tests More Down Syndrome babies are being born [in the UK] than before pre-natal screening became widespread, figures show. The UK saw 749 Down’s births in 2006, up from 717 in 1989 when tests came in. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7741411.stm I think this gives us all a bit more hope in the world…
Wonderful Things I Wish We Didn’t Have
Our weekend was really ridiculously busy. We went to a hockey game where my older two kids got to announce the start of the game and we sat on the ice smack dab in the middle of the two team benches. We spent the after-game time meeting the players and letting the kids get autographs….
Acceptance Is Not Submission
This quote recently popped up in the little quote of the day gadget on my desktop and stuck in my head: “Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.” Kathleen Casey Theisen Not too long after entering the world of special…
The stress factor.
Stress is a part of our every day lives. When you have a sick child stress can reach a whole new level. I am stressed at the moment. I know I am really worried when insomnia comes to pay me a visit. Wipes it’s muddy feet on my doormat and sets about to stay for a…
Down Syndrome Barbie
Does the idea make you think, “Whoopee, where can I buy one?” or, “Oh God, my worst nightmare has just been realised.” Before you go clamouring to write to the papers expressing your outrage, or to Mattel to place an order, I should just say Down Syndrome Barbie is not currently on the market. Mind…
The Person I Was Meant To Be
Do you think parenting a child with a disability has changed you? Small changes or big changes? I believe I would be less patient. I would not be as assertive. I don’t believe I would find enjoyment in the smallest of things this world has to offer – real enjoyment, I mean – where I…