Max has this habit of running his toy trucks, cars and planes back and forth across the dining room table. It makes a lot of noise. It leaves pock marks in the wood. It ends up totally grating on my nerves to the point where I will finally say, not so softly, “Max!!! PLEASE, stop!” …
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Kayleigh Needs Our Prayers NOW
I’m hoping that Michelle will forgive me for posting on top of her, but this is an emergency: One of our new writers, Adam, who blogs about his beautiful daughter Kayleigh at Kayleigh’s Story: One Pound Blessing is is need of our prayers. Kayleigh has been through the wringer. Her sweet family has stood by…
For Tuesday…
One of the greatest, most wonderful, empowering things about blogging is learning that you’re not alone. That you don’t have to do this by yourself. That there is a whole community of people who genuinely care about what you’re going through… The lovely Debi from Who Says 8 Is Enough? is hosting a very special…
The Jigsaw Puzzle
My twenty two year old autistic son Matthew had an impressive meltdown last summer that could so easily have been prevented. Tall, handsome and wiry with sandy blonde hair and earnest brown eyes, he came bolting from the kitchen, where he had been talking to my husband, Peter. He picked up a dining room chair,…