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Dear Addie, I slept in. That’s right Ad, I blissfully slept and woke up AFTER the sunrise, a rather unusual occurrence for me. You...

Dear Addie, As long as I can remember, you sister and brother Clara and Gabe have always enjoyed us being at their schools or events that...

Dear Addie, This past week we celebrated the last days of yet another Autism Awareness Month. While I’m not sure if “celebrated” is the...

Dear Addie, Spring break has arrived! Finally! With our crazy, nonstop schedules, this is a time we have ALL really been looking forward...

Dear Addie, This week I was reminded of one of the more unpleasant aspects of autism - meltdowns. To an outsider looking in on these...

Dear Addie, A lot has been going on in our lives and it’d be amiss if I didn’t mention a new sensory friendly opportunity we took...

Dear Addie, It’s no secret that this journey was something we had never “planned”, but here we are - 8 years in. It’s said we never stop...

Dear Addie, I feel like as soon as I get used to a new behavior and see it’s repetitiveness - I blink and it changes. Oh the joys of...

Dear Addie, While we've been making great strides recently, I promised to be truthful in telling you any and everything about our...

Dear Addie, This week we celebrated your amazing big brother Gabe’s 11th birthday! I still cant believe he's 11 - where has the time...

Dear Addie, Do you remember the book, “If you give a mouse a cookie...”? You know, the one where he goes on to need milk, and a straw,...

Dear Addie, Part of adding new players to our team requires very in depth discussions of where we have been and where we should go from...

Dear Addie, This week it was all about our One Team, One Dream family motto, and while we were supporting those within our autism...

Dear Addie, Here we are, same journey just reading a new playbook. With every new change it’s hard not to hold our breath while we sit...

Dear Addie, The time had come. It was time to meet our new quarterback. Although you had no idea where we were going, you seemed to find...

Dear Addie, Now where was I? Oh yes, we had just left the doctor’s office with a piece of paper that he gave us. On the piece of paper...

Dear Addie, So there we were. Dad and I sitting next to each other, holding hands as I was telling the story of you aloud. Across from...

Dear Addie, A couple months ago I found myself in a doctors office exhausted, frustrated and completely spent. Tears streaming down my...

Dear Addie, There are hundreds, probably thousands of parenting books out there, but if there's anything I've learned from any number of...

Dear Addie, This week we welcomed another new beginning to our journey! That’s right baby girl - It’s 2019! Happy New Year! With all the...