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Mommy Always Makes it Better, So Why Can’t I?

Charlie is almost seven. He’s severely autistic. The truth is that raising a nonverbal, autistic child is emotionally draining. I wish I could…

I’m tired in a way sleep can’t fix. I’m exhausted in a way even a few days of me-time can’t alleviate. I often go to bed absolutely spent…

This is Matthew. Matthew is smart. Too smart. But boy, is he difficult. A difficult, wonderful, unusual human. He barely eats—aside from chicken…

I am a special needs mom. Maybe some moms of children with disabilities prefer different terms, but for me it fits. Merriam Webster defines…

Tonight I got to peek in on my daughter’s dance class. It’s a sea of over a dozen young girls in tutus. It’s easy to pick out which tiny dancer…

Stop generalizing. Yep, that’s it, the one thing that I wish everyone knew about Down syndrome. You see, Down syndrome came into my life…

This broken pencil is all that’s left of a nearly two hour battle that took place in our home tonight. A battle that raged inside the mind of…

My husband and I were blessed with our first child, Bailey, on July 24, 2009. After she was born, and about 10 minutes after I was rolled to…

I’m the proud momma of two boys. Two tiny miniature versions of myself and my husband. One looks just like my husband and the other is a tiny…

It happens every year around July 5th. As we walk into a store, the former 4th of July/Seasonal section transforms in the blink of an eye to shelves…