Dear Braden
Dear Braden, It’s been one week since you made your big move out of our house and into your new home. Your new home. I still can hardly believe I’m […]
Raising an Adult Son with Profound Autism
Dear Braden, It’s been one week since you made your big move out of our house and into your new home. Your new home. I still can hardly believe I’m […]
Now I’m sitting in my living room surrounded by boxes full of everything that usually belongs in our kitchen cupboards and drawers. Our bedroom closet is full of bathroom supplies. […]
Now: Our family experienced a loss this week. Grieving is hard at the best of times. But these are definitely not the best of times. Then: When Braden was young […]
In two days it will be September…and we’re still in America. I wrote a blog post last May entitled “Into the Great Wide Open” when Mike, Braden, and I left […]
Life…it’s changing. We came to a decision recently. We are flying home to Oregon on Thursday evening. Just to clarify, we are not going home because we are scared of […]
“How are things going with Braden during all this, Lori?” Hmmm….. Life during #COVID with Braden…how would I describe it? I’m going to go with “Predictably Unpredictable.” We have now […]
Let’s take a moment to congratulate America’s newest voter. Yep. Braden voted for the first time tonight in the U.S. Primaries. We hadn’t planned on having Braden vote today. I’m […]
Now “Braden sure loves his new shoes,” a colleague gleefully exclaimed as she passed me in the hallway last week at school. No time to chat, on my way to […]
Now: “Have you heard of Dystonia?” We hadn’t. “Dystonia,” she explained, “can be a side effect of taking Risperidone, and we should make it our goal to take Braden off […]
Now We have all witnessed the beautiful stories of families of children with special needs…you know the ones…the dedicated parents who give all they have for their child. Some give […]