Yesterday, I had to take Zoe to the pediatrician’s office so that the doctor could take a look at her ears and make sure that her ear infection was indeed gone. As we were sitting in the exam room, waiting on the doctor, Zoe was chattering as usual about a million different things. Mid-sentence, she […]

Over the weekend, something happened that will be going in my son’s scrapbook, right next to a picture of him talking on the telephone.   If you don’t know Adam well, the first thing you need to know is that when he grows up, he will be Mr. Monk.  Autism produces some hilarious behaviors in […]

My little girl is growing up, and I love seeing it happen!  I now have a personal assistant.  I had heard about this happening in other families as children start to grow up and mature, but honestly, I wondered when and if it would happen in mine. First, I should tell you that Riley has […]

Every day begins pretty much the same around here (well at least the weekdays). Kevin and I wake up early, early to exercise and spend some quiet moments with God before the kids wake up. Riley has a sign on her closet door instructing her to go to the bathroom and go back to bed […]

Riley is involved in a “luv triangle.” She gets all giggly around one of the boys in her class this year (who was also in her class last year) and tosses her hair back when he’s in the room. I have heard that she just “lights up” when he walks through the door. There’s another […]

One morning this week, I made some cheese grits for Kevin and me to eat for breakfast.  Knowing that Zoe typically loves cheese grits too, I confirmed that she would also like some and set a piping hot bowl in front of her.  Apparently that day her eyes were bigger than her stomach (something that […]

What mother doesn’t feel great about the fact that she can kiss bruised palms and scraped knees and see tears instantly disappear? Last night while I was busy bathing Zoe, Riley somehow managed a nasty scrape on the top of her foot. Don’t ask me how. Thirty seconds before the scrape appeared, she had been […]

It’s a good thing that God has used my children to teach me to have a sense of humor about myself, because lately I am just “cracking myself up” all the time. The kids and I started a tradition a few years ago wherein we spend the week before Thanksgiving celebrating some of the people […]

Ms. Jaime, Harris Creek Elementary’s OT, told me a “Riley story” today that is so classic Riley I just had to retell it here. I love hearing the words, “I’ve got one for the blog!”🙂 Apparently Riley stopped in to visit Ms. Jaime one day before Halloween and initiated a conversation (YEA, Riley!!). “Ms. Jaime, […]

Zoe is often wide-eyed and serious during Bible time with Daddy at the end of the day. She is usually sharply interested in the content of the Bible stories, and she absorbs things more deeply than we sometimes expect from our 4-year-old “party on wheels.” Kevin related a story that I just had publish here. […]