Vacationing is often difficult when you have a child with special needs, isn’t it? As much as we all need a vacation, actually pulling one off can be quite an undertaking. Whenever I want to take my children away, even if it is only for a weekend, I need to know if the place we…
Special Exposure Wednesday.
Gran saves the day, making glove animals, while Ivy waited 22 hours, nil by mouth, for her PICC line. Thank goodness for Grans! Got an amazing moment to share? Why don’t you join us at Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three…
The Everyday Portrait ~ Photographing Children [with Special Needs]
Today’s guest post is by the lovely and passionately inspiring Tracey Clark, photographer, writer, mom and founder of Shutter Sisters. When Melody asked me to share a few tips for photographing children I couldn’t refuse. I love to share thoughts, ideas and lots and lots of photos. Although taking great pix of our children is…
Try This Tuesday #48: 10 Top Tips for Talking to Your ASD Teen About Sex
Welcome to Try This Tuesday! Cale from Spectrum Siblings has been doing a series of posts on the topic of sex education with a teenager on the autism spectrum, and he is sharing his final installment with us here today. I’m curious what other parents of teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum have…
Do you give your kids chores?
I’d honestly never thought about giving Max chores, until a recent conversation on an e-loop I belong to for moms of kids with cerebral palsy. One mom whose son is able to crawl on the floor lets him help sort laundry and put his toys away. She was planning to have him help her maintain…
Around the Blogosphere Special Needs Style
My head is swimming. I feel dizzy and a little nauseous. I am breaking in cold sweats. I don’t have the flu, swine or otherwise. Nor am I pregnant. Nooooo, I am helping my 15 year old daughter prepare for her first boy/girl party. Well, her first since her Winnie the Pooh theme party when…
Vacation
We’ve been on vacation this week. Oh, we didn’t find ourselves at some exotic destination with our bags packed with multiple swim suits and not much else. But, we did have some grand adventures. And we did manage to sneak in some fabulous local and regional locations. But we did it all within a very…
The Cookie Store
I went to pick up Matthew at Camphill, the residential community where he lives near Santa Cruz for the Memorial Day Weekend. I was anxious to get on the road by noon so that we could beat traffic. But when Matthew walked out to great me, I could tell by the look on his face…
Prepare for turbulance, we have re entry in 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1.
Tomorrow, after twelve long days, I’ll be bringing Ivy home. I’m wondering if all of you with hospital time under your belts, experience re entry, like we do. Ivy is generally overwhelmed with the hustle and bustle of home life, cranky and out of sorts. After all, she has had the monopoly of attention of one parent 24…
I Have A Voice. I Have Potential. I Am Just Like You
This will be the best 5 minutes of your day. I promise. I’d like to add one more beautiful, brave and amazing face to the beauty seen above : Parker Reed Hodson 11.19.04 Feel free to share a link to YOUR face of beauty and potential. It doesn’t have be the face of a child…