Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. —Charles Dickens After 77 days of waiting for home, Daddy brought you through the door three years ago today. Happy Coming Home Day, my little man.
I have noticed a time or two lately that a certain teenager has been looking at my blog. I would say reading but she has already explained to me that there are too many words in my posts so she just looks for funny pictures and makes sure she is not in them. Knowing that […]
Rather than buy a Christmas countdown chart I had the kids make their own this year. It’s a great way to sneak in some number-writing practice and let them get creative. We came up with a fun idea to really personalize our Christmas countdown this year. 1. Help the kids find their favorite photo. 2. […]
After being born weighing 2 lbs. 10 oz, after two cerebral hemorrhages, after weeks on a ventilator, after transfusions and procedures and tests and the endless beep, beep, beep of monitors, after 71 long days in the NICU… my little Baby A came home, three years ago today. Amid all the chaos of life as […]
Tonight was our annual candy making with the girls (and the boy who could not be left out of a sugar-filled event). We all made our way out in the first of this year’s winter storms to spend hours using up the mountains of baking supplies overflowing the kitchen. My little ones in attendance were […]
There is a homeless man in our city that is always perched on his bike somewhere on the main road running through our town. (Yes one, we are in the burbs and he is the only one I have seen.) We see him every time we leave the house, he is either bundled up, hunched […]
When your kids are being quiet and you are thinking to yourself… Oh they are so good, it is so nice they are finally old enough to entertain themselves and then you ask, “What are you guys doing up there??” and they sweetly reply “Nothing Mommy” THIS is NOTHING… Yes I drew on the clothes, […]
Well a few days of happy posts calls for a sappy one I think. (Follow the bouncing ball, it’s the holidays and I’m all over the place.) When we lost Hadley my biggest fear was that people would forget, that her short life was not long enough to hold the importance in others’ minds […]
We had a completely stereotypical weekend-in-December-with-little-ones and I loved every minute. Since the kids were micro-preemies, this is the first year we are able to break out of the house and enjoy all of those germ infested activities we have avoided like the plague for the last three years. Now we are free to explore […]
The bill to mandate insurance coverage for people with autism in Michigan did not make it. After a long tireless fight, it did not pass the Senate last night, or this morning. I’m disappointed and feel like we just took two steps back AGAIN but I am also I’m grateful. I spent last evening, along […]
