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How To Be The Woman You Are Now

June 1, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

I recently had a conversation with my older sister.  To share the facts,  my sister is brilliant.  Successful in every possible way.  She runs two non-profit organizations which she founded.  She has a long career behind her as an extremely profitable entrepreneur, who always ran her business with integrity and strong values.  She advocates for…

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What I Have Learned From My Sisters

May 8, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

I posted this last year on Mother’s Day, to pay tribute to some of the most amazing Mom’s I know and who I have the pleasure to call my sisters.  They have become my bench mark for parenting over the years, and although every Mother’s Day from now forward will be a hard one missing…

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Filed Under: disability parenting, parenting, special needs parenting

Caregivers For Special Kids

May 5, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

 There is always so much talk about how Mom’s need to care for themselves so that they are able to care for their children.  When you Google “Secrets of a Happy Mom” you come up with everything ranging from new moms to moms of teenagers, and all the ways one can find happiness in those…

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Filed Under: disability parenting, parenting, special needs mom, Special Needs Parent, special needs parenting

Where to raise a special child?

May 1, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

I didn’t know when we chose out community, or our house, that we would become a Special Needs family and rely heavily on the resources around us.  Thank goodness we made the house choice we did, because the services and resources have been beyond value for our situation. The school system has been fabulous  for…

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Filed Under: disability parenting, parenting, Special Needs Parent, special needs parenting

What A Simple Spring Break Trip Did For This Mom

April 21, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

My family recently traveled for Spring Break – for a lot of reasons other than just “because everyone else does it.”  I felt we needed a drastic change of scenery.  We have been on a hamster wheel for way too many months – full of therapy after therapy, doctors’ visits, hockey practices, hockey games, homework,…

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Teaching Kids to Appreciate What They Have

April 19, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

I spent a very special day in Chicago yesterday with my daughters.  We were celebrating my ten year old daughters making it through a whole year after her intensive surgery to lengthen her tendons and to replace her hips.   It has been a long, very hard, very painful year for her, and I thought…

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Filed Under: being a Mom, disability awareness, homelessness, parenting, Special Needs Parent Tagged With: appreciation, homeless, parenting

Sisters and Disability

April 15, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

I think it is a common theme in disability parenting that we worry about our kids who are challenged, but also have our own set of worries for our other children.  Those strong little souls that travel alongside their siblings, offering support, love, and strength of their own. It is my constant fear that I…

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Filed Under: siblings, Special Needs Parent, special needs siblings

The super hero flexibility of the special needs parent

April 12, 2015 By admin 2 Comments

I would not say I am a particularly flexible person, in the physical sense.  Can’t quite remember my last back bend or splits – but it was definitely sometime in my early childhood.  Yet, people are always commenting on my flexibility, my patience, and my ability to see the sunny side of the street. I…

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Filed Under: being a Mom, disability parenting, siblings, special needs mom, Special Needs Parent, special needs parenting

The Waiting Room : Now

March 24, 2015 By admin Leave a Comment

Ten years ago I was a much different Mom sitting in this waiting room.  Now, seasoned beyond my wildest dreams, I have sat in more waiting rooms than I care to count.  The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago is a massive place.  Floors of people who have suffered injuries, or strokes, or surgeries stay here and…

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Filed Under: diagnosis, disability parenting, special needs mom, Special Needs Parent, special needs parenting

Feeling Empowered

December 24, 2014 By admin Leave a Comment

Every year around this time I start to catalog the year up until now, and to see its high and low points.  I get mentally ready to tackle my resolution list, and to evaluate how I think I have done on all those goals and dreams I started with last December 31st.  My wise brother…

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