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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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Adoption
Mental health
Parenting
RAD
Self Care

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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Self Care = Coffee Subscription!

I get asked ALL THE TIME: “What do you do for self care!?” My answer is usually: “Not Enough!” I am always looking for easy ways to take care of myself and coffee has been a major player in this lately! It is really the little things that matter most and there is nothing like […]

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Home Repairs
Parenting
Self Care

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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Marriage
Mental health
Self Care

Being Social When You’re in Darkness

I am a person who struggles with mental health. Right now I am also in a major dark time. The darkness comes and goes in my life but right now the dark is doing more coming and a lot less going. When I am in the darkness, I am not a great wife, mother, friend […]

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