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Real Life Heroes
Here’s to all the Heroes. The littlest ones among us. Their Mamas and their Papas. The brothers and the sisters. Behind every Super Hero are many who offer love, support, prayers…… and advocacy...
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Tue, Oct 30 2012 8:18 PM
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Life With Special Needs
Guest Posting at Type A Parent
Parker and I are over at Type A Parent today where we talk about Down syndrome. October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month. We’d love it if you’d take a moment, read our guest post, and leave a comment. When niche posts...
Published
Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:06 PM
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Praying For Parker
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Life With Special Needs
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national down syndrome awareness
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Type A Parent
Ann Coulter and the difference she COULD have made.
She used the r-word to describe the President. Then, when called on the carpet about it, stated that she hated all the political correctness in the world today, and that before you know it there would be an entire book of words you...
Published
Wed, Oct 24 2012 9:16 AM
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Praying For Parker
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Life With Special Needs
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r-word
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end the r-word
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Ann Coulter
A Fall Garden
I the only one afraid to go grocery shopping lately? On a budget as tight as ours even the .50 increase in goat milk makes a girl take notice. From fruit to meat to grains, the prices have surpassed worrisome and are heading to down right...
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Mon, Oct 22 2012 11:05 AM
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Praying For Parker
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blenderized diet
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Victory Garden
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Fall Garden
What goes up….doesn’t always want to come down…..
Parker loves to hike up his pirate plank. Up, up, up he goes. However the whole coming down the pirate plank has never been met with the same kind of enthusiasm. Our Hero is a fighter though. He’s working on walking back...
Published
Thu, Oct 18 2012 8:47 PM
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Praying For Parker
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down syndrome
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brave hero
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Life With Special Needs
How to color pumpkin seeds.
Our garden was quite the squash producing machine this year. From Pumpkins to Hubbards to Spaghetti to Butternut. I’ve got squash coming out of my ears. As I was cleaning out what felt like my 300th pumpkin, I had an idea hit me. What...
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Wed, Oct 17 2012 9:23 PM
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Praying For Parker
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Life With Special Needs
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how to color pumpkin seeds
The Day Before.
A day before a surgery finds me trying to exhaust myself with cleaning, laundry, and anything else I can think of. It works for me to do stuff that needs to get done while ensuring I’ll sleep well that night. Over the years...
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Tue, Oct 16 2012 5:23 PM
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Praying For Parker
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aspiration pneumonia
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Life With Special Needs
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Frequent Flyin' ar the PCMC
A Blendtec Review
We do a lot of blending around these joints. Parker’s blenderized diet. Smoothies for the athlete. Grinding grain for all the baking I do. But what blender does all of this? Thanks to Bendtec I now know. One blender to do it...
Published
Tue, Oct 09 2012 4:40 PM
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Praying For Parker
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Stuff We LOVE!
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Blendtec
What the garden gives.
This year’s garden was……well, interesting. With Parker sick so much this season there just wasn’t time to weed and make pretty. I’ll admit, I like straight weed free rows reminiscent of something you might find...
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Sat, Oct 06 2012 6:15 PM
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Praying For Parker
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backyard gardening
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Victory Garden
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graditude
Election Promises for those with Special Needs
Lately, as I make my way through days with CNN and Fox News, I watch as Presidential wannabes stand up and make promise after promise after promise. …..I promise to stand behind small business owners. …..I promise to stand...
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Fri, Oct 05 2012 10:27 AM
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Praying For Parker
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Life With Special Needs
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Politics of Special Needs
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election promises for those with special needs
How does your child with Down syndrome enrich the world?
One of the reasons Parker and I blog is to show the world the beauty and potential found within an extra chromosome. We wanted to show how people with Down syndrome enrich the world…..beginning with our family. My Dad says that it’s...
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Tue, Oct 02 2012 7:25 PM
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Praying For Parker
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Holding On Tight To My Faith
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Advocacy
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Life With Special Needs
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kids with down syndrome enrich the world
Potatoes: Buried Treasure for Frugal Families
I was able to pick up 140 pounds of potatoes for .29 cents a pound. These potatoes were dug up only a few days before I purchased them, and weren’t sprayed with any growth inhibitors to prevent sprouting. I know many families...
Published
Tue, Oct 02 2012 8:33 AM
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Praying For Parker
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frugal living
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Recipes
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bake the perfect potato
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frugal foods
To love like that.
A young woman in our local Down syndrome community recently passed away . The line at Heather Probst’s viewing was long. There were lots of high school students there to say their final goodbyes. Heather was well loved. But more than...
Published
Mon, Oct 01 2012 4:59 PM
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Praying For Parker
Filed under:
Life With Special Needs
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national down syndrome awareness