Trying to get Atti to cooperate during speech therapy is a herculean task. This kid has an iron will, which is awesome because it means that when he wants something, he cannot be stopped. But it sucks because often what he wants is to not do what his mom or teachers are asking him to [...]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures: View from a swing
April 18, 2013 Leave a Comment
When I miss having seasons, I’m going to look at this picture. California is wonderful.
[Continue reading...]Lemonade out of Lemons
April 15, 2013 2 Comments
Last week and this week have been – and continue to be – challenging in a way that makes me accept every scrap of pity people send my way as the mom of a child with a disability. Bear has already started work in his new building, which is an hour and 45 minutes away. [...]
[Continue reading...]Placerville here we come
April 12, 2013 5 Comments
Last weekend, amid history being made and discovering new sisterfriends, we also took a trip up to what we got word will be our new hometown. Placerville is just East of Sacramento, a short twenty minutes away from the edge of the city, resting at the foot of the Sierra mountains. It’s an old gold [...]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures: History is Made
April 11, 2013 Leave a Comment
This weekend was the semi-annual conference for my religion, and for the first time in the history of the church, a woman prayed over the entire congregation. Not only did a woman pray, but two women prayed. One as an opening prayer, and one as a closing. On a local level women have been praying [...]
[Continue reading...]Listen To Your Mother
April 10, 2013 3 Comments
Photo by Margaret Andrews of Nanny Goats in Panties So much happened this weekend it’s going to take me the rest of the week to tell you about it. And it took half of this week even to wrap my head around it. It was everything I’ve been missing in my life all wrapped up [...]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures: Tulips
April 3, 2013 3 Comments
One of the best things about living in Modesto is living where everything grows. Just up the street is a farm that specializes in tulips, and the other day Bear stopped to bring me a present. They walked out to the field, cut them from the ground, and wrapped them up to send them home. [...]
[Continue reading...]Change is hard
April 2, 2013 Leave a Comment
We have had tremendous good fortune in Atti’s therapists and case workers and doctors. There have only been a couple of people that weren’t good fits, and everyone else has been the most dedicated, kind, supportive professionals I could ever dream of. One of our most favorites is Atti’s Occupational Therapist, Margie. Atti fell in [...]
[Continue reading...]Cat out of the bag
March 29, 2013 5 Comments
Finally. FINALLY. I can talk about the big secret that’s been bottlenecking all my blogging mojo. Bear has succeeded in bagging his white whale – he’s gotten his dream job. There is a long long sordid history of interest to no one but us, but this has been a journey that started before Atti was [...]
[Continue reading...]Year of Pleasures: Blossoms popping
March 28, 2013 Leave a Comment
As kids at church we sing a song called Popcorn Popping on the Apricot Tree. It’s a sweet little song talking about the glories of spring and how the flowers on blossoming trees look like popcorn. This tree is apparently growing neon candy popcorn balls. But my gosh is that the most gorgeous shade of [...]
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