As a Mom of a child with a severe physical disability and multiple health challenges, I do my fair share of heavy lifting and cleaning up bodily fluids each day. Tasks that Moms of normally developing children only handle when their kid’s are babies or sick. There’s not a day that goes by that I [...]
Archive for February, 2012
A Beautiful Mess
Posted in inclusion, parenting a child with special needs on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
With your smiling, happy face..
Posted in inclusion, meditation, parenting a child with special needs, unconditional love, yoga on February 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
This week I’ve been working on memorizing dialogue for Bikram Teacher Training in April. One phrase that keeps replaying in my mind over and over is “with your smiling, happy face,” as in, “Try to lock your knees, creating a tremendous stretching feeling, pain sensation all over underneath you legs, inside-out, from bones to skin, [...]
Defining your roles.
Posted in parenting a child with special needs on February 13, 2012 | 3 Comments »
In the 9 years that Ella has been in our lives Dave and I have fallen into certain roles when it comes to her care each day. I prepare and blend most of her food, bathe her, take her to therapy appointments, research new therapies and treatments, design, decorate and bedazzle adaptive equipment, plan playdates [...]
