Melody

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January is National Birth Defects Prevention Month, National Blood Donor Month and National Migraine Awareness Month.

Did you know that Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome shares many similarities with migraines?

September 10, 2008

September 9, 2008

  • One Mean Mother

    In my lifetime I have been referred to as one mean mother by many people…including my own mom…because they did not understand. (…)

September 3, 2008

  • Heed My Warning ~ Special Exposure Wednesday

    Welcome to Special Exposure Wednesday.
    Vote for your favorite Special Exposure Model from among the four finalists. Yes! Our readers are choosing the winner.

    This is Wil. Be afraid. (…)

September 2, 2008

August 27, 2008

  • Special Exposure Wednesday, Popsicle Memory

    For details of how to join the weekly fun, please read What is Special Exposure Wednesday?
    Enter the Special Exposure Model Search Photo Contest.
    Deadline August 30. (…)

August 26, 2008

  • Seen Any Adorable Kid Faces?

    Have you seen any adorable kid faces? You have? Well snap some photos and enter one of them in the Special Exposure Model Search Photo Contest. (…)

August 20, 2008

August 19, 2008

August 17, 2008

  • Caring, Curing and Aiding Pediatric Research

    Parenting children is not an easy job.  Parenting children with special challenges adds more complications to the task.  Parenting children with chronic or life threatening medical conditions is frightening. 
    While we as parents need support and education, we must not forget the fact that our children do, too.  Whether physically healthy, living with special challenges or struggling with health issues, children need to understand the importance of caring and compassion. (…)

August 13, 2008

August 12, 2008

  • Hug Therapy

    Let me be honest.  Recently tiredness, grumpiness and the forget-it-not-now-let-me-plop-on-the-sofa dumps have ruled my spirit.  What can I say, some days you need a hug like a fish needs water.  You feel as though you might collapse completely without one quiet moment wrapped in a gentle embrace of love. Then at an unexpected moment…in an unexpected way…it comes…

    As my son, Wil, and I meandered around the yard talking about this and that, he paused and looked upward.  I paused.  He turned to me and said…
    "Mom, you're as beautiful as the sky" and he quietly resumed his stroll.   
    I felt my heart swell. 
    My lips were silent. 
    I began walking, caught up with Wil and filled my arms with hugging him. (…)

August 10, 2008

August 6, 2008

August 5, 2008

  • The Crash Test Dummy Family

    All week the plan was to tell you a humorous story today about the boys' not-so-special language.  Humor is scarce right now. 
    As I write this the pain and tears are fresh from having been verbally and physically attacked by my thirteen year old son.  Followed by his complete emotional collapse in my arms while he sobbed and heaved words of remorse…
    "Mom, I am so sorry.  Mom, I love you so much.  I am so stupid.  I am so bad.  Mom, I am so sorry.  Please still love me."
    I hold him and wish desperately to make it all go away.  I kiss his head.  I tell him "I love you.  Nothing will ever make me stop loving you.  You are precious to me. (…)

July 30, 2008

July 29, 2008

  • The Hush Hush Disability

    It is a longer post than I normally write, but for the sake of children -born and unborn- please take a few moments to read. (…)

July 23, 2008

July 22, 2008

  • It's Fun to Learn at the YMCA

    Mac sits at the kitchen table staring out the window, ignoring his school work, existing in another world.  Suddenly he turns and looks at me with a smile. (…)

July 19, 2008

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