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What is it with our culture that we have to pretend that everything is OK and the world is just ducky? Seriously. Who’s with me? I have been in more than one conversation over the last couple of weeks where I have been told to basically suck it up and move on. Really? I am the mom of a special needs child. There. I said it. And it isn’t easy to say. My challenge in this reality is he basically appears to be like any other Continue reading I Give You Permission… A few years ago, I was wrapping up my kitchen cleanup late one evening, I realized a large truck rumbled outside our house. When I stopped and thought about it, I realized that the rumbling had been going on in the background for awhile. I guess I’m used to city noise, but this was rattling our windows. As I walked to the window to peer out the blinds I wondered why a large truck would be sitting in the street at 10 p.m. I pulled back the blinds and saw Continue reading Be Prepared… A few years ago, our fish tank sat empty in our living room, which deeply bothered our daughter who was three at the time. She made a deal with us that if she cleaned her room every night for a week, we would buy a fish. One fish is much cheaper than the inflated price of allowances these days. I made a little connect the dots page and every night she cleaned her room she connected a dot. When the page was finished (a week later) she had a picture Continue reading The lonely fish… This weekend I went home to Milwaukee to help celebrate one of my best friend’s bridal shower and bachelorette festivities. I had a fantastic weekend being reunited with my best friends from high school. We got dressed up in our best heels, went dancing into the early morning, and woke up the next morning all in the same big king size bed, just like we used to do in high school. As I laid there in that big bed, arms and legs sprawled all over, laughing and Continue reading A Love Like This… |
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