Helping Moms Raise Kids With Special Needs
Thanksgiving is almost here, and you’re freaking out, right? I get it. I’ve been there, year after year. You’re worried about multiple things: how will I travel with my child without a meltdown (his or mine)? How can I manage his special diet when he’s around all those treats and goodies? How can I take advantage of all the Black Friday deals with a child in
I see that I have not blogged in a whole 5 days! Well, readers, that is because I took 4 whole days off! I didn’t write, work, think about work, stress over my career, or any of that. It wasn’t perfect…Chris ended up in the ER with torn rib cartilage (no idea how), and Zoe was a bit of a handful on Thanksgiving. The upside
As I sit here live blogging from my living room, my children are watching the second movie on A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, a video about the Mayflower pilgrims. My feelings are mixed because my sweet & speechless Zoe is watching in rapt attention, as she learns about the early pilgrims, or at least our accepted mythology. Non-educational TV hasn’t given her this kind of thrall
As I mentioned yesterday, Zoe had an enormous meltdown while dining out in costume on Friday and when she was trick-or-treating, she had trouble keeping her clothes on in 50-felt-like-40 weather. Still ahead of us lies Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa, New Years, and the dreaded cold season, which I seem to recall dumped a little snow on us last year. What’s a parent with a child with
Well, GOD WILLING the children will be back at school tomorrow and festivities will resume. We had a wonderful Valentine’s weekend. First off, Amelia had a break through at her swim lesson – she swam above water for the first time, or as she says, “REACH! REACH!” You go girl! This was followed by 4 hours of respite care Saturday evening so me and the
