I know it's an overly dramatic title. Music is not really dead, but I feel a large part of Firstborn's life is being put away. Firstborn has been playing in an orchestra since just after his third grade year. That's roughly 12 years. It has been the "medicine" which helped him work through emotions when [...]
8/16/10 Wow. Been a while since I posted. I had a pretty hard year. A few months after my ectopic pregnancy I got pregnant again and was pretty excited. I was pretty sick, which I took to be good sign--baby must be growing right--right? I was dealing with thyroid issues and went to an endocrinologist [...]
10/09/09 How do you help an 11-year-old boy with Asperger's? How do you help him make the social connections that can be crucial to survival in junior high, when despite your best efforts, he is continually on the periphery of activities? I've encouraged him to invite kids over, we've also encouraged him to get involved [...]
When I was a little girl, I remember a Sunday lesson on death. The teacher had a glove. She asked us if it could move on its own. We answered no. She put the glove on and demonstrated how moving her fingers inside the glove would make it move, but the glove had no power [...]
I had intended to post on Memorial Day about part of our summertime game plan. Instead I found my family packing up to race across country--in hopes of saying goodbye to our beloved Grandmother. She was a powerhouse of faith, service and spirituality. We will miss her tremendously. We knew we might not make [...]
