I am a woman richly blessed with two beautiful children, though much of my writing here focuses on the needs and circumstances that have arisen from only one of them. Hannah’s participation here has always been at her discretion- she can contribute what she would like or not, as she feels inclined. Regardless of what
Our last family vacation happened over two years ago. The extent of the work required to pull off that trip successfully left me feeling far more strained and stressed than if we’d stayed at home. Frankly I can’t recall a time when I was so pleased to return home. For Hannah though, we had still
As I am typing this, it is 1247 AM MST. Tony has been awake since 1123 PM. So I’m writing this on three hours of sleep. The last two nights before this one, he woke up at 206 AM and 156 AM…and didn’t go back to sleep. We talked a fair bit about this last
About a year ago, Whitney and I were working with Tony in one of our local Target stores shortly before she moved out of state. Another customer approached us and asked me some information about working with an Autistic child in public because she was hoping to encourage her partner to undertake similar outings (her
You may have some questions about this picture. Now, there is (of course) a story behind it and we certainly will get all of it displayed up on the wall- eventually. For right now, I will start off by stating the obvious (that it was not taken near Halloween) and that yes, I really am
This past week, I was reading the news as I used the restroom (that is my dedicated time to peruse the headlines because even my bathroom time currently gets doubly committed), when I ran across a Rolling Stone article on Mrs. Smith. Normally, I don’t have time to do more than scan a few sentences
In November of 2017, our family took a long-planned trip to Disneyland. That trip, and the extensive work we did to help Tony prepare for it, is mostly a topic of a future post. I suspected (translation: totally knew it) we could be in for a few challenging moments given his sensory differences. However, I
To Ms. B, Tony’s Sweet ST, For Insane Amounts of Patience If someone were to ask me who I think has the hardest job on Tony’s therapy team, there is no doubt it would be Ms. B. Not only is she having to work with Tony on some of the skills he’s least interested in
To Hannah, My Cherished Daughter and Blogging Partner I don’t even know how to condense the gratitude of so many years into one post. I was incredulous when the first pregnancy test came back positive, and if memory serves I ended up taking three before I stopped trying to snuff out the tentative hope of
When Hannah asked me if she could write regular posts for our family’s blog, I supported her but have given her the option of taking time off if she needs to. Typically she writes her posts over the weekend before they run because of the time demands for schooling during the week. This past Saturday
