It seems Kindergarten has been a big year for Lainy Ann. Not only has she learned to read, do addition and subtraction, she has gotten her dental appliance removed and wears glasses in school. She just recently got a dramatic haircut too! But the next two months will have the scariest of […]
Its a simple number sentence and the result doesn’t seem like a large number. But when you change the number sentence into a word problem the result seems much larger.
3 Cahills + 4 Dicksons = 7 children under 6 years old.
Seven children seems to overwhelming. Although, I only have true responsibility […]
William is delayed in speech. At 18 months old he still wasn’t babbling and had only said a few words spontaneously, but would not imitate any of our sounds or words. He was speaking at a 9 mo level. We contacted Lanterman Regional Center and set up the first of many assessments […]
Connor is going through a ‘building’ phase. He is always making telescopes by rolling up paper or other things. However, he is usually ruining thing in the process, like when he rolls up the cover of a book, or today when he bent the tube part of our squirt bottle. Last week […]
I have to be perfectly honest. I was not looking forward to going to the Atlanta Zoo. I had heard that it wasn’t that great, I looked online and found that it was significantly smaller than the LA Zoo, and it was about twice the price. Being pregnant it didn’t seem like […]
William has learned how to fake smile on demand. This is not a skill I am particularly pleased about, especially since we just had professional photos done and they almost all look like this. We are entering the next phase where good photos will be candids and professional photos will be fakes. […]
About a year ago Lainy Ann started talking about how she had long, pretty, princess hair. She wanted to grow her hair long like a princess and never cut it. I started talking to her about one day cutting her hair and donating it to Locks of Love. I didn’t have a […]
My blog has been down for a few weeks. Thanks to those of you who noticed. :-) It was nice to get your emails. We were waiting on a new piece of server equipment. Our first new piece in nearly 10 years. In fact, most of the delay was […]
Most airlines have a rule that says luggage can be no more than 50 lbs. However, each person is allowed to check 2 pieces of luggage. So when I flew to GA with my 3 ticketed kids I was allowed to have 8 pieces of luggage checked. Well, there was no way […]
I came across this survey and article in one of my support groups. Grab your kleenex though. This isn’t for the faint of heart.
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I’m wondering if you would be willing to participate in a study i am doing
involving parents who have had a loss and/or forward this email and link to
your list or […]