Monthly Archives: February 2009

Ashley and The Short Bus

A while back I was asked a question by a remarkable young man named Jonathan Mooney. The tag line on Jonathan’s website is “Author, Public Speaker, Different”. The publisher of his two books describes him on their web page: A young man, once called unteachable, journeys across America to investigate the lives of those, like…

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No Umbilical Cord

A small square room with four chairs, a desk with a computer and office chair, one window with blinds, bookshelves, a couple of plants. One psychiatrist, one mom, one child. The things unseen are indescribable. Not one person in that room can feel the emotions of another, nor hear the thoughts of another. The time…

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Special Exposure Wednesday

    Do you think these…er…offerings that Ivy ‘baked’ are gluten and lactose free? She assures me they are. Got something playful to share? Join us here at Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three Ring Circus  

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Why Tuesday is worse than Monday

“How has she been this month?” The doctors at Peyton’s clinic will ask me this Tuesday afternoon, the same way they do every month. Three Mondays of every month I write my post here and I’m doing ok…because Peyton’s doing ok. That fourth Monday is the night I think and process everything that’s happened over…

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Try This Tuesday #31: Birthday Parties

If you’d like to join in but aren’t sure what to write about, try the topic suggestion for this week: Birthday Parties. Do your children like going to them? How do they like to celebrate their own birthdays? By this point in my son’s life, I thought I would be well in the swing of…

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The happiest sound in the whole, wide world

I’ll never forget the first time my Max laughed. He was about three months old, I made a funny noise and he let out this “Heh, heh, heh” that cracked me up. It felt good to laugh; I’d cried a lot during the first few months of his life. Another happy memory: When Max was…

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Grief and Siblings

Written by Chrissi When a child passes away, the pain for all is so hard to comprehend, especially for a sibling. We, as parents, have our own grief and our own pain and we tend to not be aware of what our children, the siblings may be feeling. I know for our family that was…

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Setting Misconceptions Aside – An Interview With Mattie’s Mom

Ok, so this Mom met her husband at the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Her husband is from there. Well, the Outer Banks just happen to be my most favorite place on this planet! Just for the record, I am willing to house sit if you still have property there 🙂 Tell me a little…

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Spreading The Love With My Wonderful Walls.com

Some people just like to spread love. Stephanie and her husband from My Wonderful Walls are two of those people. Creating individual works of art with their Kids Murals and Nursery Murals, this husband and wife team are growing their new business by planting seeds of love. Stephanie was so sweet to send Parker a…

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Never

I crouched right next to her in the bright, colorful hallway. A physiatrist and a physical therapist followed closely. Making notes on their charts. Nodding at each other. Carefully assessing what I was doing with my daughter. Betty, the physical therapist crouched down with us and put her hands on Esther-Faith’s waist. She quietly and…

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