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I Am A Special Needs Mom

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…

Every family has one. The nonconformist. A kid who contributes to premature graying and an irregular heartbeat. I should have known during my…

“But mom, there’s this kid in the classroom and he gets all this extra help and attention. It’s not fair.” How many kids feel…

What started as a labor of love took a sharp and unexpected turn. Funny, though, in the beginning, our baby failing one of…