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Stories, reflections, and everyday moments.

Celebrating the Little Things

This is not the kind of life that you measure in big victories. I have two children, one that is walking a more typical road and one that is… not. I know what it is like to celebrate milestones—and ac

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It's Dangerous to Compare

We’re all guilty of it. We compare ourselves to everyone, our children to their peers, our spouses to our friends’ spouses. We measure our houses, our cars, our jobs against others’. Everyone gets suc

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Bedside Manner

We spent years chasing zebras. Are you familiar with the expression? If you hear a horse, you should look for a horse—not a zebra. Don’t start with the exotic.

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Back to School: Game Day

It’s here. The big day. All the planning and preparing is down to this. We’re back to school. I won’t really know if everything we did made enough difference until the end of the week (probably)*. Her

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Back to School: The Coaches Meeting

This is one of the biggest steps in preparing to go back to school. It’s something that I agonize over when it begins to consume my mind weeks before it actually happens. It’s time to meet the teacher

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Back to School: Scrimmages

I didn’t post last week because we were on vacation—Sorry, not sorry! I have decided to turn my back to school posts into a little bit of a series though, so I am hoping to post twice this week.

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Back to School: The Warm-Up

Summer is never quite what I expect. It used to be relaxed and breezy—a chance to go to the pool everyday and do strange science experiments with the boys. They’ve outgrown the science experiments and

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What is Normal?

This year has been the year of changes. I largely attribute that to an amazing teacher, an amazing special ed teacher, and an amazing class. The perfect storm of opportunity for him to begin to find h

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Always Listening

The thing with Yoshi is that he hears everything, even when you think that he is not listening. It gets more interesting because he doesn’t forget anything. You would think that after ten years I woul

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