Tag: Parenthood
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2024
Welcome, 2024! If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you know that each year I pick a word of the year to guide me. For 2024, I found myself struggling to find the perfect word for this chapter of my life.
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I’m not ready
Some days I grieve the “would have been” and “could have been” scenarios of our lives. Not in the way you might expect. I’m not grieving the ways things could have been if Robert didn’t have Down syndrome. I’m grieving the way things could have been different without covid. How things could be different if,…
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Thoughts from the past
Two years ago, I sat down and drafted this blog post. I couldn’t bring myself to publish it. Reading back on it now is like reading an old journal entry, and I wanted to share it with you. This was written when there was much uncertainty around covid and before I had 4 children. It…
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Friendships and Social Skills
We all want our children to have friends. We want them to develop healthy social skills, get along with others, and have someone they can trust to play with and confide in. Knowing our son is different, we anticipated he’d have trouble making and keeping friends. That didn’t make this morning easier. We saw a…
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One More Thing
Sometimes, something happens and it’s not really a big deal, but the weight of that moment feels like so much to bare. One more thing on an already full plate. Report card season? It’s not just looking over one report card, it’s looking at two. It’s trying to figure out how the report card and…
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