Oh lordy. I didn't see this but I read about it and my intial reaction was "Dude, noooo." Because we parents of special needs kiddos can be some touchy people. No offense me and everyone else, but come on..you know it's true. And it's not for nothing- our kiddos and other people with disabilities have been some of the most marginalized by ( Read more... )

Our daughter wants to speak. She says she wants the doctors to "fix her voice". This is a bit heartbreaking as her voice will likely be of little use to her throughout life. (Though she can say "Mom" and "Mama" now and a fairly close approximation of "No" (Well ok, we know that she's saying "no" it's likely no one else would.) But that's two ( Read more... )

The transition from the old new school to the new new school happened this week with shockingly little uproar. Our daughter took the change like a champ and has surprised everyone working with her with how well she is doing. Everyday we get pleased notes about how funny she is and how happy she seems in the new program etc. (She is still not a ( Read more... )

Well, as sometimes happens as soon as I am all "You know what school district? Thanks but no thanks, I got this one" They're all "Oooooh you needed us to do xy and z? In a timely fasion? Why didn't you sa...oh you did? My bad" Well they was one person with the power needed to hold things up and I'm sure good reasons to do so. But issues have ( Read more... )

All is not completely ideal in our new home. Well...it's fine in the home itself but school issues have once again reared their ugly head. Heaven forbid we have one portion of one school year without a major hubub. Anyway long story short I am about to do a perhaps foolhardy thing and offer up the suggestion that I could homeschool my daughter ( Read more... )

We've settled in nicely to our new home and our new routine. A routine that is slightly screwed up this week thanks to record breaking low tempuratures. MAN it is cold. So very, very cold. It got down to 29 degrees below zero Farenheight the other night. With windchill I guess it was closer to negative 50. Even during the day it was in the ( Read more... )

We closed the day before Thanksgiving and moved right in. Right from the closing we went and (after picking up the kids from my mom's) bought a bed for us and a scratch and dent sofa. We moved in that day, our stuff moved in that Friday. (Well most of our stuff, some of our stuff yet lives at my mom's house ( Read more... )

We are supposed to close on the new house tomorow. We closed on the sale of our old house on Friday. The new house is only a couple blocks from my mom (stepmom 1.0)'s place and maybe a half mile from my sister's place. We're walking distance to our doctor, dentist, bank, a grocery store, hardware store, etc. The location couldn't be better ( Read more... )

We're here. The trip was blessedly uneventful. My SIL was able to accompany us back through security which was a life saver when my kids went through the metal detector and my cat was refusing to come out of the carrier. Finally pried her out and she did just fine going through the metal detector. Had a bit of a rough flight into Denver ( Read more... )

We are flying back on Monday. Unfortunately this is not because we have finished selling the house here but because I just can't do this anymore. It has been nearly six weeks since I have seen my husband face to face and that is much too long. I guess I would be awful as a military wife ( Read more... )