Pipecleaner Dreams

Being the parent of a child with special needs, especially when some of those needs are medical and life threatening, is a difficult job. T...

Just like the flowers in my garden, I believe my children need lots of sun and fresh air to be their best. Making that happen gets a little...

If you are the parent or other family member of someone with a disability do you ever get tired of the disability? Do you get tired of the ...

I know that there are people who will read this post and immediately start googling the location of the closest psych ward for me. But, t...

Only two more weeks and school is out for the summer. Ashley will doing some ESY services but does have two weeks at the beginning of the s...

Though I am afraid of many things – camel crickets, roller coasters, etc – I only remember feeling that deep, in-your-gut type of fear a few...

This week we celebrated Ronnie's Gotcha Day. Exactly a year ago, my handsome son came home to his new Mom and his brothers and sisters....

The kids and I decided to visit the Williamsburg outlet stores this weekend and do some Christmas shopping. With the economy, more specific...

To take everyone's mind off Ronnie's upcoming surgery, I decided to play hooky from work and take the boys to a local baseball game....

Ronnie's siblings visited this past Saturday. They are 10 year old twins - a boy and a girl - and they are absolutely beautiful childre...

Due to a little laundry snafu, our tie-dye red, white and blue shirts turned red, pink and blue! But we didn't let that put a damper on...

When we set off for Baltimore last week, I was curious to see what our travel experience was going to be like. Though we have traveled with...

It was another hot, sweltering Sunday afternoon. I really can't imagine what it will be like when August gets here. Fortunately, our c...

I’ve recently been addicted to a cable TV show called Mad Men . It’s new season will start mid-Summer, so I have been making my way through...

One of my absolute least favorite places in the world is Chuckie Cheese. I did my parental duty when my children were younger and did take ...

We spent a lot of time out in the community during our four day holiday. The weather was beautiful, and we were all in the mood for Summer....

FRIDAY: Ashley's MRI went ok. She's been having these every 6 months for the past three years, and I hoped that over time she would...

Tears of joy. I wanted to be strong and persuasive. I wanted to stand tall, surrounded by my children, convincing all present that I was in...

The weather this past weekend was lovely - not too hot, not too cool. The lure of the basketball hoop in the back yard was not to be denied...

I’m sure most of you have heard the news story this weekend about the adoptive mother who put her 7 year old son on a plane and sent him bac...