When you parent a child with special needs and any type of medical needs, you often hear people say, “I don’t know how you do it.” Most of the time I just shrug it off because I don’t always know either, but as a parent, you don’t think about it, you just do it. However, …
On July 14, 2011 at 7:30am, 2 men became our family’s heroes. From that moment on it seemed incredible to me that we had barely spoken to them, didn’t know their names and never had the chance to say thank you. How was it possible that there were people just out there that had played …
I am going to answer the questions that some of you have sent my way – all interesting ones and luckily all ones that are sharing-appropriate, but then this happened today: I don’t know how it’s possible but this one photo just highlights, for me at least, everything that we love about Lily’s school experience. …
I’m not really talking about Down syndrome today. Today is my dad’s 85th birthday. 85 years. It’s pretty amazing. I’m so much like my mother that I sometimes forget about how much I get from my dad as well: my love of the royal family, how I tap my fingers to the rythym of any …
So clearly my attempt at {31 for 21} has been a failure of epic proportions. I’m not sure when we October ran past me, but it did and suddenly I’ve woken up and there are only 13 days left in this month. I had started with, what I thought was, a great idea – taking …
Clearly I missed day two of of {31 for 21} but I think it was for a good reason and actually the subject of today’s post. October 2nd is our wedding anniversary and while Jess has been sick for a couple of weeks and totally not up to a night of celebrating, it was the …