by Mark Arnold | Aug 17, 2022 | Holidays, How-Tos, Special Needs Parenting
10 Tips for a Successful Special Needs Vacation Mark Arnold’s guest post offers 10 tips for a successful special needs vacation. He and his family tested them this summer for you to use whenever you and yours are able to get away. So, what do we need to do to prepare...
by Jolene | Nov 10, 2021 | Holidays
The Holiday Season Can Be Hard for Caregiving Families The holiday season can be hard for caregiving families. I spent Halloween, New Year’s Eve, and my birthday the hospital with our infant son. Because of his precarious health when he was young, several times we...
by Heather Johnson | May 4, 2021 | Grief, Holidays
Making Every Day a Great Mother’s Day, Part 1 Making every day a great Mother’s Day seems like a long reach for many parents raising kids with special needs and disabilities. For guest blogger Heather Johnson, it’s a perspective born of loss, grief and love. In...
by Jolene | Mar 17, 2021 | Holidays
St. Practice Day Wisdom In honor of two important people in my family, Happy St. Patrick’s Day! The first person is my maternal grandmother, Josephine Estelle Newell Hess. She was named after her father, Joseph Newell, who immigrated from Ireland to Canada to...
by Jolene | Dec 28, 2020 | Holidays, Spiritual Support
What Did Mary Worry About? What did Mary worry about after her baby was born? Gasp and sacrilege! How dare I entertain the idea of the mother of God worrying about the divine child entrusted to her care. Until I remember that though this baby boy was fully divine and...
by Marnie Witters | Dec 1, 2020 | Holidays
Home for the Holidays 2020 Home for the Holidays 2020 has an unusual meaning. What Dr. Seuss wrote in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is true. Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand. 2020 that’s taken much from us, yet caused us to...
