All Posts

Dear Addie, It all started with a social media post from someone who is not only a dear friend but also a fellow special needs mama… This...

Dear Addie, And then it was Christmas. A day we’ve been waiting months for. A day full of love and excitement! A day when in our little...

Dear Addie, I walked over to the counter to check out the half-eaten charcuterie board daddy made. Side note: I hope I never have to...

Dear Addie, It’s that time of year again where we try to follow through on an appointment made 6 months ago where somehow a 6-month...

Dear Addie, This week we started exploring something that’s caused a pit in my stomach since the day you started 5th grade. Yes. I’m...

Dear Addie, From November 1st to the end of the year, our life is full of colorful Christmas lights, eating turkey, and an overall sense...

Dear Addie, There’s going to come a time in your life when you are granted a reason to see things from a different perspective, good or...

Dear Addie, I know I might sound like a broken record at this point, but I’m not sure there’s much that could really prepare someone for...

Dear Addie, He took one look at the panic on my face and wasted no time springing into action. But before we got here, let me back up a...

Dear Addie, This past weekend we celebrated with ghosts, goblins, and a few Ted Lasso characters. That’s right Ad it was Halloween - a...

Dear Addie, I was folding laundry in the hallway on Saturday morning when you came walking up the stairs naked as a jaybird. You had...

Dear Addie, And there you were rocking back and forth, calmly stimming, surrounded by a series of handpicked (by you of course) toys and...

Dear Addie, You’ve always had a quiet observance about you. It’s true, years of being nonverbal and it seemed as if you were just soaking...

Dear Addie, It’s that time of year again (or a time we haven’t seen in a hot minute because of homeschooling), but the rite of passage is...

Dear Addie, Teddy Roosevelt once said, “Do what you can, where you are, with what you have!” and this week you proved to us that you...

Dear Addie, Well, here we are, it’s officially fall and I’m pretty sure we’ve finally mastered our school/activity/therapy chaos – I mean...

Dear Addie, We are in a new developmental chapter in our lives, one I naïvely thought with so much you still depend on us for, we would...

Dear Addie, A feeling. I think it’s often a feeling that ultimately, we respond to with a memory. Our memories can leave us with a...

Dear Addie, And there we were, the second day of school and sitting in an after-hours pediatric urgent care waiting room. Not exactly...

Dear Addie, …And then it was your last year in elementary school. A big 5th grader in a school we’ve grown to love so much. As cliché as...