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An Open Letter to My Children’s Birth Mother:

Hello there, I hope you’ve had a relaxing day. I recently found out that all of your children have had to be taken from you in order to ensure their safety so I’m sure your day can’t have been very rewarding. What is mother’s day without your children? Well let me tell you how it […]

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Surviving as a Special Needs Family During a Time of Emergency

While everyone is busy panicking about all thing surrounding us in life right now there are subsets of parents who are living this emergency in completely different ways.  Parents with kids who have special needs of any type are facing an entirely different set of challenges on top of it all. Here are just a […]

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The Life of a Trauma Mama

I am not the Mommy I always wanted to be. My children are not “the reason I breathe” or the “light of my life”. I am not the fabulous career woman I was and wanted to continue to be. Now I am a Trauma Mama. I don’t look great. Most days I don’t even look […]

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When the Holidays Hurt.

When I was young, I always dreamed of being a mommy. I couldn’t wait to do all the “mommy stuff” from rocking to sleep and reading bedtime stories to holiday traditions and family game night and basically every “basic” family thing you can imagine. I wanted to enjoy every second of being Mommy. That is […]

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8 Step Laundry Chute Transformation

There are so many things I have to think of as a parent to kids with special needs. Laundry is a big one for us. You see, one of my little loves is obsessed with dirty laundry. He likes to sniff it and that just does not work for me. So, that means we need […]

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What’s So Great About Laundry Day???

Tomorrow we are having our brand new washer and dryer delivered and installed. To so many people this would be just another day, for us it is a huge day for so many reasons. Let us start with why this is important for me and my wife. The Importance of “New” Growing up we both […]

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My Life by: Spy KAM

Hey all! Kai wanted to take a chance at writing! He wanted to tell his life story. This has taken him a very long time to put together and I kept as much of it to his grammatical creations as I could handle. These are his words alone and he is very proud of his […]

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Fortifying the Walls

Once upon a time we had a beautiful new house. That was last year when we bought it. We have had so many blowouts over the last year in our new home and there is a ton of damage to the boys’ room. So this was today’s project. To turn this: Into an actual room. Now […]

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Parenting

Artist MM

This is Malik’s very First Blog entry. He is very excited to share his story with you all. Please leave him a comment to show your support! My name is Malik but I like being called “Artist MM”. When I was little I got hurt then I went to Devereux. When I was there I […]

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