Welcome to Holland

by Emily Pearl Kingsley I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this . . . When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make your wonderful plans. … [Read more...]

Happies: the square, bathtime, our tree, a gate, first snow, (Pics!)

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my vexation and thus apologies owed

for my "regulars" that come here a lot, sorry for all the changes! I was in a cyber spring cleaning kind of mood recently and decided I wanted to change my background. Annoyingly, I'm not the super computer geek you may think me to be and I can't find a worthy background made by blogger.com, but if I change my background to a cool Pyzam! or somesuch one, I'll loose all my custom settings on my … [Read more...]

Friday Night (un)Excitement

It's so (not) nice to have a (boring)relaxing Friday at home! I am (in)secure and (un)happy all by myself when Ben works until midnight. I remember in the past, all those wild and crazy nights out that were so (un)exhausting and over(under)rated. It's so (un)appealing to stay home on a cold winter's night by myself and Summit. I feel really (not)thrilled about all my alone time and wonder what … [Read more...]