This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Miracle-Gro Gro-ables for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. I’ll be honest. I do not have a green thumb. But I love plants and remember helping my mom in the garden as a child. We had tomatoes and cucumbers for vegetables, and raspberries and strawberries for…
Adam
Why My Child Doesn’t “Look” Like They have Special Needs
I have two special needs kids. My son has autism, SPD, apraxia of speech, and a feeding disorder and my daughter has many medical complexities, a feeding tube, and gets four different therapies per week. When it comes to my kids having special needs I have heard it all. But when it comes down to one…
Join the Online Jamberry Fundraiser For Our Family
A few weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me if she could do a Jamberry fundraiser for my family. If you have been following along for the past year or so, you know that my daughter was hospitalized 7 times last year and it’s been quite a rough time for us. Between my daughter’s…
What I Would Tell the Other Kids
Several nights ago we took my son to the park just before dusk. It had been in the mid 60’s out and nice weather for playing outside. My son who is autistic, apraxic, and who also has several other diagnoses, was having a blast following the other kids around, and riding on the little merry-go-round….
Adam, Autism, and Apraxia
On December 31st, 2013, I started looking back over our year with my son, Adam. 2013 was Adam’s healthiest year. He has been so sickly since he was born even prompting his pediatrician to do several blood tests to see what was going on because he was sick every other week. During 2013, we did…
Mama to Two
It’s been almost three weeks since my daughter was born and I am really enjoying being a mama to two! Things have been so different than when my son was born and that is both a good and bad thing. My recovery has been great. I was let out of the hospital after two days,…
Adam: My Rainbow Baby
Yesterday, October 15th was national pregnancy and infant loss day. People around the world lit candles and talked about the sweet babies they had lost. As I read through my newsfeed on Facebook and saw how many people had suffered loss, I thought about my own loss a little over four years ago. In July…
Thankful Thursday: I’m so Thankful for my Little Boy
No, you did not read the above title wrong. I know today is Friday and yesterday was Thursday, but I wanted to share with you a little bit about Operation We Are Here‘s “Thankful Thursday.” I had never heard of it until the founder – Benita Koeman emailed me and asked me if I would…
Letting Go: First Day of School
Before my son was born, I had many many plans. I had it all worked out how I was going to raise him, where he would go to school and when, and how things would turn out. The funny thing is God had plans too, His always trump my own and are always better too….
Two Words I Never Tire of Hearing
A lot of people told me that as my son, Adam got older and talked more I would get sick of it. That once kids talk they never stop. I have to say, that so far that is not true. Autistic kids are different and their speech does not just blossom all at once like…
