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Fracture: an update on our unexpectedly-upended family
I’m out of town and broke my leg in 3 places. Our family is fractured, splintered, and stretched further than ever before. This is SO HARD on all of us.
- Family, Health, Wellness, & Self Care, Little Brother, Personal and Spiritual Ramblings, Special Needs Parenting
In which my life is one constant extenuating circumstance
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…
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How being in the hospital is nothing like a mommy vacation
Maybe it’s just me. But sometimes I have Mommy fantasies. Most of the time, these fantasies involve me, an empty hotel room, a TV remote, and copious amounts of chocolate. But on my…
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5 Tips for Preparing Your Superhero for Surgery Day
By guest author, Michelle Cuthrell. Before we adopted a child with medical special needs, hospital stays were a scary foreign concept to me. I’d only ever stayed overnight in one to deliver our…
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5 Things I Wish I’d Known Before Adopting a Child with Special Needs
By guest author, Michelle Cuthrell Three and a half years ago, my husband and I fell in love with an 18-month-old boy from China. He was precious. He was perfect. And he had…
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On ER visits and “trendy-cute” scarves
I’m onto day five of wearing my lovely heart monitor. It’s three wires attached to my chest that run to a small cell-phone-lookin thingy attached to a black lanyard that hangs around my…
