I didn’t realize this until we had James, but being a mom is a lot of work. I don’t think I have given my own mom enough credit for everything that she did when me and my sister were growing up. I kind of think that I took her for…
Stacy posted something on Facebook today and I thought I would share. I don’t know where she got it from or who originally wrote it. For those of you that don’t know, Stacy and I lost our first son to Trisomy 18 before he was born. We never got a…
A friend of mine shared something on Facebook that I wanted to pass on: Check out this link. The health sector spent:$544,367,861 on lobbying for health care. Wouldn't that money be better served on helping the American public (8 lobbyists per member of Congress). I have a little friend, James…
My biological mother was just 16 years old when she became pregnant with me and had a choice to make: terminate the pregnancy or put me up for adoption. She obviously chose option #2 and put me up for adoption. My adoptive parents never kept my adoption a secret. I…
Please excuse me while I vent for a moment. I'm sure we've all heard someone say something about life not being fair for one reason or another. Maybe they didn't get a good grade on a paper they worked so hard on. Or they didn't get the job promotion they…
Stacy posted this on Facebook last night: “My wish for 2010 is that people will understand that children with disabilities do not have a disease; children with disabilities are not looking for a cure but ACCEPTANCE........93% of people won't copy and paste this, WILL... YOU be one of the 7%…
Having a disabled, or special needs child, we don’t often have the normal moments that most new parents have. Instead of the bond that mother and child have through breastfeeding, we have a machine that feeds James. We don’t have a baby that cries us awake in the middle of…