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Women In My Corner
Last month I was honored with a special note of love when Adrienne, extraordinary mom and blogger at No Points For Style invited me into the Circle of Love at Kir’s Corner with this amazing blog post. This Christmas Eve I get the opportunity to pass on the love to another amazing woman who’s touched…
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Gah! No, Seriously – Gah!
As I drove in the car with Tim yesterday, my mind wandered to contemplating what crazy-fueled car behavior of his irritates me more – the times he chatters incessantly, or the times he sits catatonic, mouth agape, staring into nothingness for the entire drive. Yesterday I was treated to four solid hours of fly catching…
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Turn And Face The Strain
There are plenty of quizzes on the interwebs that illustrate the stress that change can cause. Even the most well-adjusted person can be jarred by enough upheaval. Even happy events cause stress. I changed jobs recently. And while I’m thrilled to be with a company where I have more opportunity and a better culture, I’ve…
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Four Years To Screw Her Up…
She said I could post her picture.I write a lot about my son Tim and his mental illness. 99.9% of my blog posts focus on him because one, he knows about my blog and thinks it’s “cool,” two, he’s fine with me using his name and picture, and three, his condition, childhood onset schizophrenia, is…
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Just A Belly Rub
If you’ve ever read my blog, you may know that, along with three children, I have four dogs. We didn’t plan on having four. It sort of happened by accident. They are all dogs that someone else had mistreated or didn’t want, collected over the past decade from three different states and at separate times.…
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Growing In To It
Two years, three months, and 11 days ago, we sent our son away. We didn’t want to, and we did. It had been 11 years since Tim’s first diagnosis. Over those years there were 12 hospitalizations, 27 different med combinations, seven therapeutic day schools, one suicide attempt, six broken doors, nine different doctors, and a…
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My First Support For Special Needs Blog Post
….I know that I couldn’t be the advocate I need to be for my children without the non-judgmental support of these parents. I’ve even gotten to know some of the people I first met online in person. Having these men and women and these groups is the most valuable tool in my fight to keep…