Write It Down by Jennie Linthorst: Life moves fast when you have a child with special needs. As parents, we’re constantly motivating our children child with Herculean efforts, affect, patience, problem-solving, and love, to move through another day of progress out in a world that doesn’t seem to quite understand the nuances of our days. [...]
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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 [...]
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Landau-Kleffner Syndrome,
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Special Needs,
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I have a new friend. Coobie. Coobie is so good to me. We’ve only become familiar with each other about three weeks ago. A surprise really; happenstance of circumstance and we have found each other. We fit. Since we’re friends and Coobie has become so important to me, I thought I should introduce you… Don’t [...]
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(Photo By: Skavenger) I’m not usually a fan of Jim Carrey. I realize to many he’s a hoot, but he’s not my kind of humor. I’m not a huge lover of slapstick comedy; and I certainly never expected one of his movies to invoke deep thought. The movie? Yes Man A good movie. It doesn’t [...]
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I walked into Target today. I tried on a swim suit. My kids aren’t going swimming this summer. ******** I fell off the wagon. Mind you, it was just for a day. My eating is horrible. Somewhere in the young mind of a 28 year old versus the 36 year old I am, I thought [...]
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humor,
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The Shred
I just did it. I unsubscribed. Now I shouldn’t scoff at this. I have few PRECIOUS subscribers. I value each and every one and I hope that each of you continue to visit my blog, request my feed, listen to my ridiculous rants, and keep coming back for more. I found a blog that I [...]
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“I cant breath any more I am done…” I still recall this post in a forum I visited. I immediately felt for her; I immediately knew what she was going through, all the things she couldn’t explain, express, admit. I knew how her body felt, her mind, her eyes, her heart. I knew, as only [...]
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Motherhood,
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self-care
This post is for Trish at Autism Interrupted. I hope you find something that works for you… My mom came and helped me one morning when I had more to do than any single person possibly could. She helped and I prevailed. Towards the end of her volunteer work in my home, I had the [...]
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