Dear Helen of Castle of the Immaculate is joyfully and wonderfully expecting a baby. Helen had her first baby thirteen years ago and has since adopted six more of the cutest children you’ve ever seen.  She was delighted to discover, earlier this summer, that she was again expecting.  However, she is now in need of […]

Krisann of Isla de Esperanza just awarded me with this totally cool award. I am tickled as pink as this rockin’ graphic. Thank you so much dear Krisann!  Now part of the deal is that I pass along the award to some bloggers that I think are rockin’. This is not too easy since I […]

If anyone had told me, back in 1998 when Ryan was diagnosed, that nearly ten years later I would be educating him at home, I would have thought they were nuts. Home education was unknown to me at that time and even after hearing about it and liking the idea of it, it took me […]

What could you possibly doing on August 11th that would be better than coming to Manassas Virginia to hear some of the homeschool moms from the 4Real message board and some of our favorite bloggers speak? Nothing you say?  Well then by all means click on the link below and print out a registration form.  […]

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I was over by Danielle’s today and read this post about her family’s experience with Cystic Fibrosis. It got me to thinking about being open to life in hard cases.  Autism and epilepsy have genetic components.  When Ryan was formerly diagnosed with autism I was six months pregnant with Erin. When the doctor finished explaining […]