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Creative Holiday Gift List for Kids in 2024
Continue reading →: Creative Holiday Gift List for Kids in 2024Like most parents this time of year, I’m sometimes at a loss for gift ideas (that is if they haven’t given me a 5 page list of crazy requests), so I have to start doing research before it’s too late. This year, my oldest daughter has produced said list for…
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Things I’ve Done Or Still Do That Have Improved My Relationships With My Kids
Continue reading →: Things I’ve Done Or Still Do That Have Improved My Relationships With My Kids1. Counseling for me and them, separately. For my PDA autistic daughter, counseling still feels like too much of a demand for her, which causes extreme anxiety and defeats the purpose, so currently, she’s not participating and I won’t force her. I hope that changes but in the meantime, my…
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Continued…How Neurodivergence Shaped Our Family
Continue reading →: Continued…How Neurodivergence Shaped Our FamilyThe ignorance, judgement and dismissal parents typically face over this disorder is beyond disheartening to me because we are all out there, fighting for our kids, for our sanity and for our peace and most people don’t seem to comprehend that we are often hanging on to that sanity by…
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Continued…How Neurodivergence Shaped Our Family
Continue reading →: Continued…How Neurodivergence Shaped Our FamilyLivvy had been to more than one therapist, to no avail because she’d just shut down and refuse to talk or even participate in play therapy. My mother had begun researching disorders and wondered if she had Oppositional Defiance Disorder because it seemed to fit to a degree but I…
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Simplify School Lunches With This Hack
Continue reading →: Simplify School Lunches With This HackI don’t know about you but standing in the kitchen in the morning, trying to come up with something to put in my kids’ lunches that I haven’t already done 47,000 times hurts my brain and makes me grumpy (I am not a morning person)! It’s not even really the…
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How Neurodivergence Shaped Our Family
Continue reading →: How Neurodivergence Shaped Our FamilyLike many people, before I found out that neurodivergence is forever a part of our family, I hadn’t heard the term much and wasn’t sure to what it typically refers. I knew that autism is neurodivergence but it also includes conditions like PANS/PANDAS, ADHD, OCD, Bipolar Disorder, Dyslexia and several…
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Welcome To My World!
Continue reading →: Welcome To My World!When I became a mother 12 years ago, I truly thought I’d have all the answers to all the difficult questions and I’d be the wisest, happiest, most easy-going, keep-the-fun-flowing parent on this planet. Yes, I was one of those arrogant people who thought parenting couldn’t be all that hard.…
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I’m Jennifer
I’m a married mom of two girls, a nature-loving adventure-seeker, an extroverted introvert, a serial over-thinker, and a sucker for all things food, fashion, home and furbabies. Motherhood to me is equally messy and beautiful and I’m here for all of it. I always hope to navigate this life with a little grace but when I fall short, I always have my friends, inappropriate humor, wine, and my eternally supportive husband to get me through the tough stuff! Most importantly, I’m a flawed human who’s forever committed to personal growth while practicing gratitude for this crazy/beautiful life I live.
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Wisdom of the Week
“You can’t force anyone to value, respect, understand or support you, but you can choose to spend your time around people who do.” – Lori Deschene
Mom Humor We All Need
“My ducks are absolutely not in a row…I don’t even know where some of them are…and I’m quite certain one is a pigeon.” – Via Facebook, Mom With No Filter
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