A Life of Managed Chaos
From the monthly archives:
In the heart of my chaos, I heard these words from my mom, “You tend to let them rule your life and run you”…or something to that effect. What I heard was, “your kids are controlling your every breathing, waking moment and it shouldn’t be that way.” Now, regardless of how these words can be [...]
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The Parent Blogger’s Network recently challenged us to explain how our kids have made our life zoo-ey. A Zoo; hugh, that should be easy enough, right?
Well, when I think of the zoo, I think of chaos, tons of running, sunshine, screeching noises, bird calls, screaming kids, food on the ground that chipmunks quickly snatch up [...]
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I wish I were a stronger mom.
There are those who see our lives and tell me just how strong I (we) are, how much we have endured as parents and as a family. But still I wish I were stronger.
We’re a little sleep deprived. It would seem our little girl got sick. [...]
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Blank stares. Concentrated smiles. Forced high pitched enthusiasm.
That’s what we get when we excitedly talk to other parents, of traditional kids, about how happy we are that Alex has won the right to ride on a regular school bus. Now, it’s not anyone’s fault that they don’t get why this is [...]
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Live your life in such a way
that when your feet hit the floor in the morning,
Satan shudders and says,
“oh s^$*&…she’s awake!”
- author unknown
Searching for this author, I was warmed to see how many use this motto for their sites or blogs. I wondered why so many found that same immediate smile [...]
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I recently admitted a boring, quirky fact about myself on Mom Grind. It would seem she received a meme and decided to post it and her answer on her blog. A serious of other bloggers replied that they too had crazy quirks that they were willing to admit. I joined in:
After shutting off basement lights [...]
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Being a woman has its own special privileges and challenges, as does being a wife, a mother, and most certainly a mother of a special needs child. This blog is intended to connect with parents, caregivers and friends of children with special needs, parents of children in general, to mothers, to women, to you. I [...]
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How did you choose your anonymous names?I tried to think of alternative names that I could see them being, or that we considered when they were born. Mine and my husbands were very hard … and I’m pretty sure I didn’t get our alter egos right.
Will you ever out yourself?
Everyone comes out of the closet [...]
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