This morning I snuck a surprise into my middle schooler’s lunchbox. Word on the street is that middle school is the end of the road for the handwritten lunchbox note from home, but too bad for my kid.  I will not be silenced.  Plus, Halloween is this week and who doesn’t love a marshmallow Peep in the shape of a ghostie??



**An interesting side note.  The contents of this lunch box are (more…)

I’m going to be perfectly honest here: I’ve never come fully to terms with Danny have a billion therapies. OK, three. It seems like more; the weeks where he has 3 sessions in one week are just overwhelming in a way. I look at him sometimes and think, wow, it takes this much help, this much extra? Part of it probably stems back, as it always does, to the fact that he is almost-typical in his development. He lives for the borderline. Crawling. Walking. Eating. Heck, even his speech and language when you compare to his hearing age.

I often wonder if Danny would be late on most things without all the extra things he’s overcome.

I sometimes wonder, if he hadn’t been (more…)