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 […]
Read MoreMany people ask what our day to day life looks like. We schedule EVERYTHING. For children with disabilities it is easier to know what the expectations are and when. For kids with food insecurities they have to know when every food item will be available to them. If we deviate from this, even if it […]
Read MoreMany times when I am speaking to friends and family I get asked the same question: “What can I Do to help?”. It is usually followed by a full blown explanation about how the person doesn’t really know how to handle themselves around kids with special needs; or subsequently their parents. I made this little […]
Read MoreDo you know what it’s like to jump every time the phone rings; always in constant fear of what happens next? Or to jump when you hear sirens and pray this time they aren’t coming to your home? Have you ever feared falling asleep in your own home; feared your child could be the cause […]
Read MoreI know the holidays are hard for us. How about you? How do you handle holiday related triggers?
Read MoreSo many people ask how we went from “Just Us” to a family of four, so here it is! If you read The Story of Us Pt. 1 you’ve already got the beginning of this story so I will start from where we left off there. . . When you have decided you’d like to […]
Read MoreSo I had that dream again, the one where my life is going as I had planned it. My family life was fun and exciting yet also calm and un-chaotic. My wife and I went on regular date nights. I was pregnant and due soon. I was doing work I loved and work hardly felt […]
Read MoreWe beat our record today. Our longest IEP meeting to date was 6 hours. Today it was seven. 10:30 am to 5:30 pm and we are not even done. What did we accomplish? Honestly more than we have ever before but only due to the fact that we had our newly assigned Advocate/ Investigator from […]
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2016 So it finally happened. One of my boys, Malik this time, decided he would throw down in public today at CVS. He had gotten in trouble for fighting on the bus and just escalated from there. Pretty sure the people who pulled up beside us believed he had been kidnapped and called […]
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