Monthly Archives: July 2011

Don’t Worry.. Be Happy

This post is actually about worry and happiness, not my own- but my daughter’s. By the time my daughter’s emotional disability developed, we had already dealt with significant medical issues. The kind of medical issues that distract, disable, and leave you broken hearted. Emotional illness is worse. Worse than seeing your toddler poked every hour…

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School’s Out for Summer

School’s out for the summer. Precious had her last day of kindergarten on Thursday. For the next two weeks, the girls will be babysat at home by a local teenager and will got to swimming lessons every morning. Precious will be starting at the summer ‘camp’ of her brother and sister’s daycare in the third…

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We’re running away…

I cannot ever plan anything in advance with a kid like Jack. I literally decided Tuesday to go on vacation….today. I have forty-eleven-hundred things crammed in to the back of my car, two screaming kids, my own personal pharmacy, enough Lysol to kill a small country, and a husband who is complaining about not knowing…

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