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Messy Motherhood (through the eyes of another)
This past week, my best friend Kathryn (who is a fellow military spouse, special needs mom, and blogger) came to visit me for five wonderful days. We have been online friends for eight…
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Special Needs Moms Share Their Thoughts About Mother’s Day
In honor of Mother’s Day, I asked special needs moms on my Special Needs Survival page to share with me pictures of their kids as well as their thoughts about Mother’s Day, in…
- Ezra, Messy Faith, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Redemption Stories, Special Needs Parenting
Easter Grace: how God shows up in jelly beans and covers my mistakes
But that's where God's grace steps in. Because God doesn't need us to bring our A game. He just needs us to show up. Sometimes, He shows up in jelly beans. Sometimes, that…
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Never enough: an honest look at what special needs parenting is like
Last summer, he buried his compass at the park. I’m not really sure why. He just wanted to. He begged us to go back to find it. Every time we go back, he…
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Millennial Mom Life: why I love being a mom in the internet age
I talk a lot about the challenges of being a millennial mom. Muddling through motherhood in the internet age isn’t always for the faint of heart. I sport more than one scar on…
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LuLaRoe: Honest Review (by a mom who isn’t in love with leggings)
LuLaRoe. Unless you’ve been living under a rock somewhere, you have probably heard about it. Or seen it on Facebook. Or been invited to a “popup party” or something like that. But maybe…
- Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Little Brother, Miscellaneous, Momma Goes Back to School, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting
How to catch your breath when life is a whirlwind
I’ve been wanting – no, needing – to write a blog post about current life happenings for a few weeks now. But I kept putting it off, because…where do I start? Year so…
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Dear Facebook: an open letter on our ten year anniversary
Dear Facebook: we’ve made it ten years. Can you believe it? At the beginning, you were a means to an end, you know? I wanted to talk to my new best friend, who…
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ADHD Hack: the only four rules we have for our ADHD child
As part of our Special Needs Survival series, I am going to be honing in on one of my son’s diagnoses: ADHD. Ezra was diagnosed almost 2 1/2 years ago now. We have undergone…
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ADHD Myths: 11 Things ADHD is NOT
Myths about ADHD abound on the internet. Memes out there about our kids being drugged and childhood not being a disease or mental disorder are enough to make the mom of a special needs child…
