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Why it’s so hard for special needs families to find the right therapist

February 6, 2019 by Aprille Leave a Comment

Finding a good therapist that works for YOUR child and YOUR family in YOUR location with YOUR financial situation just is not that simple.

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Posted in: Special Needs Parenting Tagged: behavioral therapy, CBT, occupational therapy, PCIT, therapist, therapy

When you’re discouraged and don’t know what to do, take a walk

February 2, 2019 by Aprille Leave a Comment

We return home wet, muddy, and hungry. I’m still just as lost as to what to do to help him. I’m discouraged, yet somehow a little bit refreshed from our adventure walk. I hope and pray that he is too. 

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Posted in: Ezra, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Motherhood, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: ADHD, Ezra, greenway, hiking, motherhood, nature, parenting, special needs, walk

2018 in review: just a year we were capable of more

January 2, 2019 by Aprille Leave a Comment

Can I be honest with you all for a second? I’ve been a little bit annoyed with the New Year hubbub the last week. People sharing their #topnine photos, sharing resolutions, sharing what they are looking forward to…blah blah blah. I started to wonder if I could boycott the New Year. I’m not even really … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Beauty in the Mess, Ezra, Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Little Brother, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: 2018, kids, marriage, new year, parenting

In which my life is one constant extenuating circumstance

November 10, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

I recently enlisted the help of a close friend who has successfully lost weight to be my accountability partner in trying to lose weight. Because after two years of trying to lose weight on my own, I’ve been 100% unsuccessful. This friend has been wonderful. It’s me who is the problem. Or, more accurately, my … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Little Brother, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: Airbnb, emergency room, family, hospital, hurricane, LB, life, little brother, special needs, stitches, vertigo

Ode to the Neurotypical Sibling of the Special Needs Child

October 18, 2018 by Aprille 2 Comments

“Can you get LB for me? He just woke up…” I asked my husband who was climbing out of bed. The sounds of LB’s whiny cries were coming through the baby monitor. I wasn’t ready to get up, regardless of what the alarms on my phone were telling me. He laid the fussy child on … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Family, Little Brother, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: family, LB, little brother, siblings, special needs

DMDD: Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder – Our “Missing Piece”

October 9, 2018 by Aprille 4 Comments

Our son Ezra – who is now eight years old – has been quite the enigma, hasn’t he? If you are new to our family’s blog – or perhaps visiting via Pinterest or some other social media platform, I highly recommend reading our son’s story in detail, as this post really builds on what I’ve … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Family, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: ABC of NC, ADHD, autism, DMDD, Ezra, odd, pscyhology, school, testing

So this is eight: an update on our awesome 8-year-old boy

October 1, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

My baby is eight. EIGHT!! For some reason this year is hitting me as far more monumental than others, as I shall explain. I think that having a child who is behaviorally, emotionally, and socially delayed has made it hard to see the progress and really SEEING him growing up. I joke and say that, … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Family, Motherhood, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: 8-year-old, birthday, eight, eight-year-old, Ezra

How do you pursue a relationship with God when you’re exhausted?

July 26, 2018 by Aprille 2 Comments

Over the last few posts in my series, Grace: How a Recovering Legalist Moves Forward in Faith, I feel that I’ve done the best I can do to present theologically-sound, Scripturally-based truth about pursuing a relationship with God. My posts have been purposed and thought-out over months of planning, mulling, and meditating. What I have presented … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Messy Faith, Motherhood, Mothering Through Fatigue, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: Bible, exhausted, faith, fatigue, god, tired

YMCA: A Mom’s Best Friend {Why Every Mama Needs the YMCA}

January 31, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

Dear YMCA: “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” I jest, but only a little. But I feel impressed to tell you “my YMCA story,” because it’s a good one. It was September 26, 2014. I had once again been woken up at o-dark-insanity by a child who was less than two … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Little Brother, Momma Goes Back to School, Motherhood, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: childcare, fitness, motherhood, pool, special needs, swimming, y, YMCA

K’Nex: the one toy that keeps my ADHD kid focused for HOURS

January 7, 2018 by Aprille Leave a Comment

Ezra received his first set of K’Nex from his grandparents for Christmas 2016, when he was six years old. They went over really great. Not. While he was generally intrigued by them, the first time he tried to work with them ended in severe frustration. Thus, the K’Nex box sat on the mantle of the … [Read more…]

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Posted in: Ezra, Special Needs Parenting Tagged: ADHD, ASD, autism, K'nex, lego, legos, stimming, toys
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