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5 Helps for the Holiday: Repost

Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving and offering a few helpful tips for the Thanksgiving holiday. Bring a Bag: Whether near or far bringing a bag, a backpack,

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Have a Good Day Lady

I was having one of those days. You know the kind that starts off with you waking up feeling already behind and then only seems to get worse. Nothing I

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The Spice of Life

Abbey sat there eating her turkey sandwich at the kitchen table, and seemingly content began commenting on all the things that she thought were “spicy”. Abbey’s reaction to “spicy” foods

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Caregiver Fatigue

Caregiver Fatigue

One night after what had been a particularly exhausting day, or frankly month, of full-time caregiving without any breaks, due to all of our respite workers being unavailable for one

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“Bye Mom”

Abbey went to her first day camp without us this summer. She had attended an amazing sports camp for several summers that our friend Jan ran; however, we had never

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Our 25th Anniversary Gift

Our 25th Anniversary I can hardly believe we did it! We got away for an entire week for our 25th anniversary this summer! For years we planned to do something

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Christmas Doesn’t End

Abbey just celebrated her 19th birthday. How is this even possible? Time goes so fast! So true is the saying, “The days are long but the years are short”. I

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Making Friends – Update

“I’m going to Costco and I’m gonna make 4 friends.” She announced to us one day as she was getting ready to go on errands. The two of us just

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My Only Daughter

My Only Daughter In the spring of Abbey’s first grade year, we were in the middle of the worst crisis of our lives. I wrote a bit about this in

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