It’s official. We’ve launched into our second year of homeschooling! This last year has been a crazy, thrilling, exhausting, frustrating, infuriating, fulfilling, discouraging, emotional, triumphant, and unreal ride. Are there more adjectives for “all over the map”? Public school was a struggle for my ADHD son. We had run in’s with his teachers, educators who […]
Over the last few months I’ve shared very candidly about my guy best friend — our friendship struggles, a letter to his new (now old – yah! Wait did I say that outloud?) girlfriend, and even a thinly veiled post helping him understand that he is enough… just the way he is. But what I […]
I’ll never forget passing by a young woman who walked to the daycare around the corner from our house. As I left for work each morning I would drive by her walking to work there. Depending on the time I left, I would see her at different points in her walk. I was always headed […]
If you haven’t already figured it out…. I have a new obsession! Bullet Journaling! I often wish I had more time to just sit and doodle and organize in my journal. And I love nothing more than coming up with new plans for making my bullet journal awesome. I love it so much I even […]
In many areas of my life I am SO NOT TOGETHER. Like I’m a total hot mess. I’m always a day late and a dollar short when it comes to doing things as perfectly, gracefully, or beautifully as I’d like. But I managed to somehow get one thing right. I married the right man. I […]
Terroists. Police. Social Groups. Protestors. News and Media. Sorrow. Sadness. It’s all loud. It yells… pay attention to me! We hear it and feel it loudly. Sometimes it’s so loud you literally cannot speak. And sometimes, not speaking is exactly what we need. Somehow we’ve grown accustomed to an over-saturation of information. Our phones are […]
Current media is saturated with stories of women who are fighting to normalize public breastfeeding. In most mommy circles, breastfeeding is expected and praised. There’s a sense of pride and accomplishment that comes with the act of breastfeeding. It’s a beautiful gift that mothers give their children. Women who choose to breastfeed deserve credit for […]
My 13 year old son was diagnosed with ADHD-PI at the age of 6. I’ll never forget the day we got that paper from the doctor we’d only met with once. They had evaluated our family life, his educational ability, and our effectiveness as parents and boiled it down to one piece of paper. I’m […]
Not long ago I wrote an article about how to start a bullet journal. I had just heard about it myself. I ran right out to the store to find the supplies I wanted and got started. Let me tell you… bullet journaling is one of my new favorite things ever. It keeps me organized, […]
6th grade. It’s enough to rock any family to the core. Now let’s imagine a 6th grade boy with ADHD. Then add to that a failed IEP, a stinky Intervention Specialist, and puberty. It’s a recipe for major 6th grade failure. As the school year progressed I watched my spirited young man grow further and […]