Family Life

Pumpkin Spice Cake

October Recap and a Recipe! October was a really busy, not so amazing month. C was pretty much sick the entire time, we even got lucky enough to experience our first allergic reaction. Meanwhile, E was losing his mind – which forced a meds change – and A was seen for an Endocrine Checkup. We …

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Family Life

Insurance Triumph

You may have followed the drama of last week and insurance. You can read it here if you need to catch up! It was exhausting and stressful. The recovery from three days of no ABA was also difficult. Super fun! I definitely did not want to spend last week that way. However, if this is …

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Seasons

I’m going to start with an I’m sorry – Life got busy this month and I didn’t have a backup for yesterday’s regular post. So it is coming a day late. Sick babies will do that to you. Every year, we go through the seasons Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. I often find myself wishing that …

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Girl with Broom
Family Life Kids

Living with Disappointment

“Life isn’t always fair. That is something that my mother often told me. As a kid, I expected things to be fair. Early childhood predisposes you to that concept, everyone gets a cupcake, an award, but we aren’t all the same. We won’t have the same experience even if we go through the exact same …

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Just a mom, trying to get her kids insurance back to normal.
Family Life Uncategorized

Days and Days

I’ve been on hold for three days. Yes, you read that right. For three, very long days I have been trying to sort out E’s latest insurance issue. You see, last month I received a letter. It said that E was approved for one type of insurance, another had ended (due to us making too …

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That's a Lie.
Family Life Kids Life Uncategorized

6 months of Cloth

“I feel so violated.” This was the yell that ended cloth diapering with E when he was about 10 months old. Hubs had gone to change his diaper and it wasn’t a fun one. He asked what he needed to do and I told him the routine. That night we went out and bought a …

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FamilyPumpkinPatch
Family Life WAHM Life

Setting Goals

For years, I have wanted to start a blog. For years, I have thought about sharing my thoughts, experiences and funny stories with the world. It took C’s diagnosis and Hubs pushing me to actually make this happen. I’m so glad I’m doing it though. I work part time from home. With one kid in …

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Our Rainbow Baby
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Is it CMV?

I’ve talked about the process for C being diagnosed as HoH. I guess now is the time to talk about what happened next. Moving forward. In October, while I was pregnant, I flew to see my parents who were visiting L.A. During that time I was able to get acquainted with a cousin who is …

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Autism Family Life My Health Uncategorized

Those Hard Days

It has been almost two weeks since E started back at school. He has had no negative behaviors in the classroom and on Friday the teacher invited him to share lunch with the class the week after Labor Day! This is all fabulous, but. Last night, I was on the phone with a tribe member …

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