Outnumbered and Overjoyed

Not a new topic. I blog about Ruby's path and the dangerous place of comparisons often. Ruby's journey as a fish and my easily trig...

About a month ago, Maddux earned the privilege to read to another class. Her teacher had the incentive in place, intending for the 4th grade...

Always my favorite time of year. This year the kids rejoined us (last year, I gave Lehr the 40th birthday gift of a fest with just the tw...

We had another IEP this afternoon. I called this one. We are not 'due' for another IEP until December (the goals should last a year ...

Maddux signed up for Drama Club this spring, meeting with about 20 other kids in her school once/week. She was interested in joining in the ...

Eli's school held their annual middle school dance last night. I wanted to volunteer as photographer, but at that time, Eli had not yet ...

We wanted to take the big kids to NYC without Ruby (nothing personal!), so we flew Grandma and Grandpa here to hold down the fort while we w...

Just as we did for Eli when he turned 10, we gave Maddux an extended weekend trip for her first two-digit birthday. It was not as easy to pi...

It's been a while...my blogging takes a hit when we get busy. And, as humans, we get busy. Ruby is still rocking and rolling at the lo...

Last fall, a long-awaited film came to select theaters for a one night showing: To Joey, With Love . It was the work of Joey Feek's husb...

Eli has dabbled in the sport of golf for many years. Usually in the spring, with the Masters and the warm weather, he will pick up a few clu...

So much talking with this girl! As I've mentioned before, when we see growth in the area of speech, we usually see decreased articulatio...

This could be a very long post. The Make-A-Wish trip we were afforded last month was amazing and it was only in part due to the cool experie...