We planned for months in advance. We somehow settled on a date that worked for 18 people. We convinced the non-believers to just come anyway and try to have fun. But I didn’t realize our cousin day at Disneyland was doomed from the start – until it was actually over. I can’t help but think about all the…
It’s been so long since it rained, I apparently forgot how to use windshield wipers and kept turning on my blinkers instead. When I’m alone and the Frozen soundtrack starts playing, I don’t change it as quickly as I probably should. One of my favorite Stevie moments this week was in the middle of lunch, when…
He has them every once in awhile. The breakthroughs. And we finally feel some validation for all of our hard work day in, day out. And that all the arguments and many, many tantrums over something seemingly so silly weren’t for nothing. One of them was last night when Stevie took his shoes off – completely unassisted…
Well, hello November. Oh and yes, hello to you too 5:30am because of the time change. How long is that wake-up time going to be in effect? Halloween was good. Stevie still didn’t totally get it, but this year was a lot easier. Therefore making it more fun than years past. And he looked bloody cute, let’s not…
The most scared I’ve ever been on Halloween was about 10 minutes ago, when the house was really quiet and one of Stevie’s sound puzzles started going off for no reason. JEEZ!!! I’ve had maybe 3 good costumes in my entire life. I know. I sound am so boring. My husband hasn’t seen a scary movie since…
It’s been a helluva month, my friends. There haven’t been many Stevie updates and that’s simply because each post would be a long list of complaints from me. And as much as we all have those moments with our kids, mine are all just running together at this point. It reached a peak yesterday when Stevie’s preschool teacher…
Packing for a trip. Ya know, I don’t mind it too much. It gets me excited to leave. But I’ve never been great at it. It takes me ALL DAY. Or sometimes even thinking about it, prepping, and making lists for weeks in advance. And I still either bring too much or too little. (Usually too much.)…
I don’t kill spiders. I destroy them and make all their body parts fall off. Then I leave them as a warning to the others. During one of Stevie’s therapy sessions, I was rocking the floor play, trying to get Stevie pumped up, when my button-up shirt basically flew open. Three buttons at least. Down…
Day 5 is also known as the last day of our Pacific Northwest vacation. *Insert sobbing emoji here* We hustled that morning to pack up and get out the door. Just a few last things in Portland to see before we headed back to Seattle for our flight home. Our first stop was VooDoo Doughnuts. Now, listen…
Portland was warm. Portland was pretty. Portland was… weird. They don’t lie about that fun little fact. We had a lot of recommendations for food, which was obviously fine by me. But other than that, we weren’t really sure what to do with ourselves. So with a couple tourist pamphlets and Google Maps in hand,…