A Parent’s Perspective: Navigating the Therapy World
Elizabeth has been in therapy since she was 2.5 years old. She is now 26. This means that she has been in some form of therapy for over 23 years.…
Timing is Everything: Planning a Trip and When to Tell Elizabeth
So how do we handle or decide how to tell Elizabeth something that might be stressful to her? Timing is everything! I will let you know what we have done…
Finding Good Among the Bad
At home life with Anna has been quite interesting. It’s been a bit difficult because of course, she has no clue why we can’t go outside anymore. She has no…
Grateful for My Decision
It was an emotional, yet joyful month of July as Anna celebrated her golden birthday in quarantine turning five on July 5th. Around her birthday, I always flashback to the…
Quarantine Tales Continued
What have Anna and I been up to during quarantine? Besides therapy, we actually tried to make the best of our time. Although before, we were doing activities such as…
Reminiscing on Better Times
Prior to the worsening of this Coronavirus in February, we were able to take our pre-planned trip to Europe. The children had a mid-winter break and we took advantage of…
New Year with New Improvments
Happy New Year! Since we moved from the East coast a few years ago and since my family is still living in the East Coast, we were able to celebrate…
Halloween Festivities with Anna
Fall festivities! Prior to Halloween, we ended up going to the farm-picking out our pumpkin and painting them which Anna thoroughly enjoyed. We also went to a pumpkin patch with…
A Day in the Life With Anna
I wanted to share with you a day in the life of Anna. She wakes me up about 6:30 every morning. We start our morning routine with what we call…
Incorporating Therapy into Everyday Chores
“Cutie patootie, Cutie pie,” I say! This all gets met with a, “I’m NOT a cutie patootie, I’m Anna!” Oops! Sometimes I can’t help myself. She keeps me laughing a…