Cerebral Palsy / Fundraiser / Illness / School

Van Fundraiser, Valentine’s Day, Health Issues, School Spirit Awareness Week, and Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month

  Van Fundraiser As you may know, our van has been having some maintenance issues lately, and it’s starting to make us a bit nervous. I don’t want to end up in a situation like we were a couple of years ago when the water pump in my car broke…

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March 8, 2023

Random Ramblings

You Are Not Alone

When Stacy and I first started out on this journey with James, we kind of felt like we were alone in this. None of our friends or family members had children with special medical needs so we really didn’t have anyone to talk to about what we were going through…

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February 25, 2023

Ready to go skiing

Doctor Appointments / School / Surgery

Eyes, Ears, Mouth and High School

Happy New Year…a month late. Hope you are all doing well. We’re hanging in there, impatiently waiting for winter to be over. It’s been brutal this year. James doesn’t do well with the cold in the winter…or in the hot, humid summers. I often ask myself why we are still…

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February 5, 2023

Holidays

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Cheers to 2023

Here we are once again, getting ready to say goodbye to another year, and hello to a new one. Overall, I think James had a pretty good year. Yes, he had a few bumps in the road, but that’s to be expected from him. If there is one thing he…

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December 28, 2022

Family Photos

Annual Family Pictures 2022

Here are a few select pictures from our annual photo shoot that we had at the beginning of October.                           Since Stacy became a Thirty-One consultant several years ago, she occasionally buys products for the house. As a…

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November 15, 2022

Getting a breathing treatment

Epilepsy / Holidays / Illness

Pneumonia, Halloween, and Epilepsy Awareness Month

Pneumonia I think maybe I jinxed it. Or maybe it is just James being James and throwing us one of his curveballs when we weren’t expecting it. In a post that I made in August, post I mentioned that James getting pneumonia in November used to be a regular occurrence.…

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November 13, 2022

Doctor Appointments / School

VNS Follow-Up and Turned On, Sneak Peak of Family Photos, and a Letter from High School

This should be a short post because not much has happened over the past month. In my last post I told you that he had his VNS replaced because the battery was almost dead and that we had to wait a couple of weeks after surgery to have it turned…

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October 16, 2022