Stories, reflections, and everyday moments.
When Yoshi was a bitty baby, everyone agreed that he was allergic to everything. It was easy. (Ha! Believe me.) As he got older the doctors stopped agreeing on anything and everything was difficult. T
I know this is a hot button topic for a lot of people. Usually our story doesn’t look like most of the others you hear or read about. We’ve had a pretty good experience overall with the special ed pro
We have all been there. Over committed. It could be self-imposed—we said yes too many times, or it could be circumstances out of our control—when it rains, it pours, after all. Or, worst case scenario
Food allergies don’t normally count as special needs. I understand this. But Yoshi was an especially tricky customer so I always lump this part of our lives in the with the rest. And even though we kn
I’m not here to give you a poetry lesson, but if you are not familiar with Dante’s Inferno, the ninth circle of hell (the deepest) was considered to house the worst punishments. According to Dante, th
It’s the question of the age, isn’t it? There are pills to fix just about everything now. Why not autism? (tl;dr There aren’t any pills to fix autism.)
We all feel like bad parents from time to time. We let something slide that we shouldn’t have, we lose our cool and yell, we forget something important – or maybe that’s just me. Now it’s even worse b
I tried to tell Yoshi’s story to a new friend recently. We’re getting closer and she is familiar with our current situation but completely unaware of our past. We were chatting (isn’t that lovely some
We ran into each other at swim lessons. I hadn’t seen her in a while, maybe a couple of years. We used to be quite close, but life gets in the way sometimes and people drift apart. We had a lot to cat