This is pre-Christmas mind you and I feel buried beneath stuff. Why does my house, even when fairly neat, still feel cluttered? I purge on a regular basis - in fact, though I am not big on daily housecleaning, I do love to purge - still it feels like we have waaaaaay too much stuff.
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Today my snow-encrusted mailbox held a wonderous thing: my first paycheck as a published author.
<and this is where the chorus bursts into song and the heavens shine down their golden rays upon me>
It’s not a lot of money, but it’s money, real honest to betsy monetary funds which I have received in exchange for my […]

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One of the reasons I was at my doctor’s this week was because of some bothersome physical symptoms. Of what? Nothing has been horribly wrong, no major pain, just things have not been feeling right for several months.
Then suddenly I’m late.
Hey, no big deal, right? After all, Dex and I both took measures - personal, […]

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One of the reasons I started this blog was to write about life as a parent of a child with Down syndrome. It’s funny though. I realized today that very little of my writing here has to do with Down syndrome or with Davey’s having Down syndrome, or of our experience of him having Down […]

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I don’t like to use the word normal anymore. Not since Davey was born. So many things happened between August 2001 and into 2005 that I now understand normal to be a cardboard construct of our own making. So what I say instead is “typical”. Like this, “Davey learns more slowly than typical kids.” Or […]

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Happy birthday, Dex! You may be an old man, but you’re my old man.
We ventured out today in search of something, anything entertaining. In a stroke of genius, Dex suggested the Ecotarium. We’d been once before and had fun. Of course, we only had two kids then.

The kids were all fascinated with the taxidermied animals […]

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The question that comes to my mind as I sit here on the cusp of yet another 4-day weekend, with bonus holiday and birthday fun, is if I can make it to the far side of Sunday without having to resort to raiding the stash of Christmas presents in a desperate attempt to entertain the […]

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Dex has a birthday coming up very soon. The one thing he’s told me he wants is — TA DA! — on sale on Black Friday. When he told me about the sale, I thought he was joking. Har, har, honey, yeah I’ll get up at 5 am and hoof it out to the madness […]

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Honestly, I think the only way I can truly capture how sick - SICK - I am of this all is to tell you how sick I feel most of the time. My stomach aches and burns, my chest is tight and feels at times as though it might literally explode from the sheer pressure […]

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I am tired of thinking about and talking about the things that aren’t working and aren’t what I want for this family. I want to focus on what I do want. This is the vision of the life I want for us.

I want a house that gives us the space and layout to be comfortable […]

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