Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
I remember your face before it was covered with tubes and wires. I remember not knowing I wouldn’t see it that way again for months. I remember scrubbing in every day, over and over again. How the seasons changed and my hands chapped, reminding me of where I’d just left my heart and where I’d […]
I could fill a book with the number of things I did not know about having an autistic adult. From the time my daughter turned 18 life has been a crash course in post-high education, independent living and finances. Despite what everyone says about preparing yourself, 90% of life after 18 is fumbling around in […]
Apparently books are my coping mechanism for all the things. I have read my way through the last few years like a negative on my COVID tests depends on it. Adding in audiobooks has probably tripled my book reading speed as well. I can’t stop you guys, someone take my Kindle. Actually don’t. My mental […]
Most autism parents will tell you they have more than enough autism awareness. They will say autism is their life 24/7 and they are more aware than they ever thought they would be. It’s tough to find anyone who doesn’t know someone with autism. The world is finally shifting to a time when the autism […]
The number of fiction books I’ve read over the last year says a lot about my need to escape all the things. I’ve had no problem surpassing my Goodreads reading challenge goal for the last few years, we’ll just leave it at that. Before my list of books you won’t be able to put down […]
October 15th is International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. It marks the end of a marathon of anniversary dates for us. We lost Hadley on October 11 so having this day so soon after fits with the mood of the month. Every year I’m still fighting off my grief hangover from our anniversary dates […]
Like everyone else I’ve spent more time home in 2020 than I could have ever imagined. With all this time at home has come a ton of books and some extra time to actually read them. My list of favorites is growing again so it’s definitely time for another book list. It took me a […]
This post was written in partnership with the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA). I am compensated for spreading the word about MSHDA programs, but all thoughts, dramatic stories, and run-on sentences are my own. We sat in a quaint diner, three blocks from the lake we loved and decided to put in an offer […]
This post was written by me in partnership with the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. I have been compensated for my time but all thoughts, opinions and crazy stories are my own. I’ve spent the last week binge-watching the show “Unexpected” whenever my kids aren’t in the room. During every episode, I ask myself at […]
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine homeschooling would become wildly popular because of a pandemic. We’ve been homeschooling for years and years and years and, as much as I didn’t think I knew what I was doing, people are asking me all kinds of questions and I have answers! Maybe I do know […]
