(See post from early February for background…) This diagnosis comes with baggage. Not just the baggage that we brought to it: all the early denial that it was even a possibility, all our preconceived ideas based on Rain Man and the media hype and prejudice… No, literally, …
How cliche is this: Our kids are growing so fast. But really, they are growing so fast. Babyboy is busting through his sneakers. Literally. There are holes in the seams at the toes because his feet are pushing through them. But I have made the …
This was yesterday. My husband and I sat in the sun-soaked but sterile exam room on the 10th floor of the eminent children’s hospital in the big city, with a very nice developmental pediatrician and a lovely child psychologist, and heard the words: “Through our testing …
I’ve wanted to write an update on our son’s development for some time. The Connecticut school shooting put that on hold… that violence was so immediate, so much more important than our relatively small issues. It also brought up alot of the feelings from our niece’s murder a …