So, here’s the thing about my little boy, Max: He doesn’t yet get social boundaries. Like, he doesn’t understand that you’re not supposed to go up to people and pat their shirts if you think their shirts are a nice color (purple, his current obsession). It also became clear to me recently that he has…
A Friendship Story – Part 2
I think it’s hard for people to understand the heartbreak that parents of children with special needs live with every day. This post is part two of A FRIENDSHIP STORY that illustrates how on good friend saved the day on Super Bowl Sunday. ** WHEN WE LEFT OFF LAST WEEK Matthew was trying to find…
Always Having to Prove
Ashley had an apointment with her audiologist today for a hearing test. It’s always seemed a little strange to me that a deaf child had to have a hearing test, but apparently my school district needs to see in black and white numbers and symbols to believe she really can’t hear. The appointment went well….
Special Exposure Wednesday.
You wouldn’t know to look at her but yesterday was not a great day at the Infusion Lounge. Here she is, enjoying a small moment of freedom, de-accessed from her lumen. Before all the trouble started. Got something to share? Why don’t you join in this Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each…
A rant: Must everything be related to our kids’ special needs?
Max’s school physical therapist left a voicemail last Tuesday on my cellphone saying that he seemed sluggish, not like himself and a little uncoordinated. I’m not good about checking my cell voicemails, and so I didn’t even know she’d phoned till I got an email on Friday from his occupational therapist recapping that he had…
A Friendship Story: Part 1
Matthew has lived in the Camphill Community near Santa Cruz for a year now, and he comes home for a weekend each month to take part in “Reachin’ Out”, a social gathering for teens and young adults with special needs that is held at our church. When I pick him up that first Friday of…
A Different Life
Do you think parenting a child with a disability has changed you? Small changes or big changes? I wonder if my future would look completely different had I not been raising children with disabilities. I most definitely think it would. I would be less patient. I would not be as assertive. I would still be…
Voice4u Winner
I plugged in the comment numbers to Random.org and the winning number is: #1: Barbara! Barbara, shoot me an email and I’ll get your Voice4u code to you!
Special Exposure Wednesday.
We’re not big Valentines Day people here but we always celebrate love. Hope your world is filled with light and love however you find it. Got something to share? Why don’t you join in this Special Exposure Wednesday. Please remember your comment love at each link you visit. Also blogging at Three Ring Circus
Giving in to your child’s special needs
The scene: McDonald’s. My husband just picked me up from the airport (I went to the Blissdom conference in Nashville), and we’re eager to down lunch. We walk in, and Max makes a beeline for a corner table he likes to sit at. Max has this thing about tables at restaurants: At the handful of…