Motherhood…Unscripted

Monthly Archives: August 2014

Beginning of the End

August 13, 2014 Tags: daughter, final year, goodbye, high school, senior year

Tomorrow. It’s the first day back to school. I have 3 kids going back tomorrow (the 4th starts next week). William will be in kindergarten. Henry will be in 5th grade. And Maggie… Tomorrow, Maggie starts her senior year of high school. My beautiful, whip-smart, accomplished daughter begins her final year of being “at home”….

Slow, But Not Unable

August 7, 2014 Tags: autism, developmental delays, Down Syndrome

Have you ever seen this? If you live somewhere other than where corn and soybean fields are ubiquitous, you may not have. I see this every year in almost every soybean field I drive past. Never thought much about it – other than maybe a “dang, that corn is confused“. Late last fall, I spent…