Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
I think I might have been a little odd when I was young. I was the oldest and only girl and did not appreciate my brothers as much as I do now. Normal so far right? Here comes the odd… Whenever we had to go to the airport I would always say the entire rosary […]
I think I have mentioned a time or two or twenty that holidays have not been the easiest since we lost Hadley. Thanksgiving was no exception. Of course I spent plenty of time on Thanksgiving in gratitude for all that I have, I marveled at Sawyer’s chunky baby-ness and cemented the memory of three year-old […]
I have been around a few typical teenagers lately and have to say that I think there just might be a few things that could be considered perks to having a teen on the autism spectrum… 1. Fifteen years and counting and I have not had to endure a single boy band concert… except when […]
I have always written about how amazingly well Ashlyn does. And she does. She can talk you in circles, debate like no other, just got a 3.5 GPA on her first high school report card and is the kindest, most pure-hearted person you will ever meet. But autism can still kick our butts. I say […]
We are moving. Moving day is one day away and if you walked into our house right now you would never know we are going anywhere. I have found another aspect of losing a baby that know one told me about. Packing is paralyzing. Every time I open a closet or drawer I stumble upon […]
A friend of mine has triplets just a few months older than mine and while taking my daily scroll through Facebook I noticed she had posted a great look back at pictures of their Halloweens thus far. I looked through her pictures, mentally checking off what my kids had been each year, and wondered why […]
Today I found myself at the credit union, inside the credit union, with all three little ones and no stroller. I won’t get into how this happened but let’s just say I had no other option and seemed to have found the only credit union branch in the state with no drive-thru teller. I entered […]
When Ashlyn was about three months old it became clear that there was not a parenting book out there that could help me. She did not meet her milestones. Well she did, just months, sometimes years, after they were supposed to come. We went from doctor to doctor. Autism was not the buzz word that […]
Unfortunately for everyone reading, our household is full immersed in potty training and, as I sat down to blog there is not much else I can talk about. Here are a few experiences that potty training two 3 year-olds at once has give me… 1. Saying “do you have to go potty?” so many times that now […]
For Parker and McKenna’s third birthday turned I debated on how to pull together a theme that would keep them both happy. We, or they, settled on pink and blue everything and I went to work making everything match which is pretty much my favorite thing to do. Here are my favorite ways to that […]
