Category Archives: Family Life

Blogger Interview – Dream Mom

Dream Mom, the subject of today’s interview, describes herself as a midwest mom sharing and reflecting on the love for her Dear Son and the challenges of everyday life with a severly disabled teenager. Make sure after reading her interview, that you visit her blog, Dream Mom! I promise you will not be disappointed! Tell…

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Our song

Our winter coats scratched and chaffed as we settled into the truck for a night of running errands. Grocery shopping, store hopping, and errand running are at the bottom of the kids’ lists of “fun things to do.” Right down there with eat asparagus and vacuum the stairs. But, there were errands to run, and…

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Me Time — Christmas Edition

“It was the day before Christmas and it had been snowing hard all day. They began in the early morning, shortly after seven, large feathery flakes sliding down as if they were only playing. They soon grew larger, swirling fantastically, like children taking hold of hands, chasing one another through a fairy world, now this…

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Solving the Mystery of Bethlehem

Last weekend my husband, son and I attended an event at our church called A Night in Bethlehem. We usually tend to avoid large gatherings like this one, but we had talked about it, read the flyer and decided to give it a try. When we arrived, there were several people dressed as shepherds herding…

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Close up and personal

When I first started blogging and went in search of sites written by other parents of children with Down Syndrome, one of the things I noticed was a distinct lack of photos. Maybe it was fear of strangers seeing their children, or maybe it was just a level of ignorance about how to upload pics,…

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Christmas List

I’m not even going to try to convince my teenagers to visit Santa this year. I’m sad about that because I have their pictures with Santa every year since they were born/adopted. And every Christmas I bring them out and display them on the piano. But I learned my lesson last year – the year…

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All This For A Couple Of Links

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…

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Special Exposure Wednesday – dawn fairies.

  There is magic in the everyday. It’s all around us.  Hand in hand, Ivy and Noah greet the morning very early. Have you found some magic to share with us this Special Exposure Wednesday? Please remember your comment love at each link you visit.   Also blogging at Three RIng Circus    

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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…

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Blogger Interview – Stimey

I looked up the word ‘stymie’ in the dictionary and found the following definition – “a situation or problem presenting such difficulties as to discourage or defeat any attempt to deal with or resolve it.” Even though the blogger that is the subject of today’s interview goes by the similar sounding name of Stimey, I…

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