“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Awakening
I met Tracy when I moved to the neighborhood ten years ago. At the time, I had a lot going on. I was raising three boys, the oldest autistic, and was balancing their care with that of my mother, who was very ill. I was tired and emotionally drained. After Tracy and I talked for…
The (quiet) happy dance.
While Australia reels with devastating fires in the state of Victoria, lives and homes lost, thousands not knowing what will become of them, we have had a busy week of medical appointments. It seems wrong, somehow, to be celebrating but I have to say we are all pretty happy in this house. Ivy was approved…
A Dad’s Eye View
One of the things that frequently runs through my mind when I come to contribute to 5MFSN is that after almost 11 years of having a daughter with Down’s Syndrome, I don’t carry anything like the number of anxieties I did when she was born. We’ve been through the not feeding properly, the open heart…