Blogs & Poems
Tips for “Living” in a Hospital – For Caregivers
The big events, the unexpected and shocking events, are the ones where we need help the most. Yet typically, you’re in a hospital – you couldn’t pack, process, or prepare – and yet here you are, in the Intensive Care Unit – and you’ll be here for who knows how long. I’ve been there – […]
Special Needs and a Special House
A Messy House When you step into my house, you’ll notice a lot of unusual things. Exercise equipment is scattered all over the floor, the dining room table is piled high with unopened mail, there’s a stack of boxes by the door, and grocery bags are left unpacked in the kitchen. The living room is […]
Leaning In – Stress, but in a Marriage’s Perspective
In a few moments I will be leading a discussion on loving our husbands – and I cannot help but realize that the time I learned what true sacrificial love was, was when I wrote this poem. I pray that my readers can be encouraged to love their husbands, even if it feels like the […]
Seeing the Beauty of Gods Design in a “Slow” World
Paige is “delayed” or “slow”. Typically, that term is negative. It’s supposed to be! It takes her longer to do things, and sometimes her cognitive ability isn’t “up to her standard”. She fits the normalcy of a special needs child, a delayed child. However, I want to give another perspective – a positive one. An unexpected […]
Food is Medicine: A Superfood Rich Recipe for your G-Tube Fed Child
Don’t forget about Superfoods Sometimes when you become a special needs parent, food in a sense goes “out the window”. Many times in our lives, we forget the nutritional benefit of a wide variety of foods. We forget that food is indeed part of our medicine. For g-tube babies, I’ve found this can be even […]