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“He’s growing so tall! He’s doing so well! He’s being so patient!” We were finishing up a quick trip into a local grocery store this morning with a new ABA behavioral therapist that is working with Tony in the mornings, and those were the cashier’s comments to us. As I have explained before to those
The past several years have felt like life coming at me as I stood, like Amy Lee in the video for Bring Me To Life, on one circumstantial ledge after another, trying to climb up from an effort to solve one problem to a solution for the next. And every time I get to that
Recently I have been blessed to be able to correspond via e-mail with someone else who has blogged, and she told me that my content is “very raw and real.” I try always to be real about what is going on, I want to be here in meaningful ways that only the truth can accomplish
A few days ago I was walking with Tony through one of our local parks, when I spotted a group of Monarch butterflies hanging down from the tips of some flowering plants like amber crystals from a chandelier. I instantly thought about how much Hannah would have loved to see that (she was in school),
BCBA1 For over two years now as the assistant clinical supervisor for Tony’s ABA programs, you have patiently and quietly interacted with our family each month, providing support to us, Casandra, and each supervising BCBA…and even by my calendar a thank you is long overdue. I am so grateful for the way you believe in
About 3 years ago, I had just headed out on a walk with Tony and Hannah when Andy called me. The garage door had broken free from its rails and he was trapped inside the garage. Because I was strength training pretty heavily still at that time, I was physically the strongest person in our
I am often asked what my plans are for Tony in terms of public or private schooling, especially around this time of year when school age children are typically headed off to one classroom or another. In previous years, my answer was there were important behavioral concerns we were addressing in therapy at home that
A couple of weeks ago, my mother-in-law went in to an urgent care accompanied by one of her fabulous daughters. Though the provider there was told multiple times that there was a sudden onset of symptoms between one day and the next, the individual involved repeatedly dismissed that and said that it was probably just
You and I were talking many years ago it feels like at this point, and you were telling me how you could tell that I spoke sweetly to Hannah because she always spoke sweetly to you while you were watching her, and you thanked me for the way I was raising her. I was always
This week our family’s beloved matriarch, my mother-in-law, has entered into hospice. For those of you from other countries or areas that may not be familiar with what that is, it is end of life care. As Hannah reminded me, her grandmother always tells people to bring her flowers while she’s still alive because she
