A Life of Managed Chaos
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I’m at a crossroads. So many things in play.
I began General Hysteria, really, for me. I began General Hysteria for any other special needs parents that felt alone; any parent, regardless of needs, that felt isolated, unsure. In my haste to share this proud endeavor, I let a little leak to those around me. I [...]
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Towards the end of summer in sunny Colorado, my entire family wanted to get one last outdoor swim in. My husband and I swam and played with the kids in the large pool, enjoying a game of keep away.
As my son jumped wildly with excitement to catch the water filled sponge ball, which almost careened [...]
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I am honored to be a part of a new writing series put together by Hartley Steiner, of Hartley’s Life With 3 Boys, for parents of special needs kiddos called “First Things First“.
Hartley says: “The series is dedicated to reminding parents that they need to take care of themselves. A renewal of our commitment to [...]
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I know some time ago I said I was going to get back to the business of blogging. Not the “business” necessarily, but the personal business, the business of explaining, describing as best I can the joys and the…quite the opposite of joys…that come along with parenting a special needs child, parenting more than 1 [...]
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I didn’t have the energy for it. The mental energy to watch 3 children running around having “fun,” foreseeing any hint of disaster for each, amending myself accordingly, and carrying on either superficial or lengthy, inquiring adult conversations.
But it was our neighbor who asked, a neighbor who goes out of her way to adjust [...]
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A breath of fresh air. An unexplainable warmth. The genuineness of the arms that wrapped around us.
We went home.
Not back to the neighborhoods that felt the imprint of our footprints on the pavement nor the ones that held all of our earliest naiveties, our discoveries of life and the shapings of who we might become.
This [...]
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It’s no secret that I drag my soul through the mud of mothering. That is, for some time, 6 years+ to be almost exact, I have believed that I’m a bad mother. Not a horrible, lock her up for all time mother, just one that’s not good enough for my kids.
I’ve never thought I can [...]
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The ebb and flow of life calls for flexibility. Too often, we find that this flexibility goes against everything we feel with our hearts, our souls. The inability to follow the path in which you’ve laid out for yourself; the need to listen to the words that swim around you, the swirl of messages in [...]
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Comments, they’re fuel to a blogger. To communicate with readers, make a connection, build relationships through this form of expression is liken to an extension of friendship through lines unseen. Thank you.
For now, other things…like Spring Break.
Warmth. Sunshine and sand. Freedom, fun, laughter, the promise of everything coming to fruition for the coming year.
Except, it’s [...]
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