Tag Archive: holidays

Adults with Special Needs

We went to the maple sugar bush this week as it was March Break for the kids.  Part of the attraction of this particular sugar bush is the all-you-can-eat breakfast and the small farm they have with a pig, some sheep, a goat, a cow and some chickens. We headed out early on Thursday morning…

Tick tock

She fell asleep around 11 p.m. curled up with Tim in an armchair. When his foot began to throb and he needed to move, I pulled her onto my lap where she stayed until everyone went to bed. She slept through the end of “Despicable Me,” Dick Clark’s New Years Eve, clinking glasses, and excited cheers….

Chanukah Oh Chanukah

Tonight is the first night of Chanukah. My kids are eagerly awaiting sundown so we can sit around the table to light the candles and of course open presents. When I was a kid, I didn’t like sharing the fact that we were Jewish.  In the small town where I grew up, we were one…

4 Keys to More Time This Holiday Season

Holidays can be hectic. But nowhere more so than in families with special needs kids. I mean, seriously, how do we mix Burl Ives, Christmas cookies, and caroling with incontinence PT, psychiatric appointments, meds adjustments and therapeutic parenting?! Come take a peek and find out!