Stories, reflections, and everyday moments.
That’s not true. I didn’t have any choice in the breaking part, so it wasn’t exactly brave because it just happened. The brave part comes in right here: I’m telling you all about it. I’m learning a lo
This year we started middle school (and high school) and it’s a whole new ball game. I’ve been going to back to school teacher conferences for years, and I can’t remember the last time that one of the
It’s cake season at our house. For most normal families, September means back to school, the beginning of fall, winding down from summer. At my house, it means: CAKES!
This is another post that I wrote at the very beginning of the summer. I have edited it significantly for chronological context and ease of reading, but I want my readers to know that my mindset at th
I wrote this post early in the summer but didn’t manage to publish it until now. I’ve added an update in italics at the end.
This summer did not go as planned. Things rarely do—not just for parents with special children, not just for parents—life just has a way of doing its own thing. I have quite a few posts written that I
I’m reliving my past. When Yoshi was very young, we spent years searching for an answer (that we never found), Band-Aiding symptoms just to get through, and taking each day as it came. It was agonizin
I saw something on Facebook recently where a mom of a child with severe autism was talking about the “last time”. Moms with normal (ha!) kids never know when that bedtime snuggle is the last, or it’s
April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. Call me biased, but it’s more important to me than breast cancer awareness, and that gets its own month and all the glory. Awareness, on its own, isn’t going t