In the monthly post I published last week, I wrote about how James and his class went on a field trip to a café that specifically hires employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As I was writing about that experience, I was reminded of a news story I saw many…
This is a bit of a continuation of the “It’s Not for the Money” post that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. In that post I was responding to some comments about us using James as a way to make money that were made on the photo collage below…
I’ve been planning on writing this post for a while, but with work, taking care of James on nights and weekends so that Stacy can work, doing yardwork, and trying to keep up with the normal blog posts, this got put on the backburner. Now that the yardwork is done…
I think that all parents worry about what will happen to their kid(s) if they were no longer around to care for them. I remember my mom telling me when I was younger that if her and dad were to die, my sister and I would go live with my…
Weather can sometimes be an amazing thing. Take, for example, Tropical Storm Alberto that hit the Gulf Coast on May 28, 2018. Normally when a major storm or a hurricane comes out of the ocean and onto land, it may keep going for a little bit and then die out.…
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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