Praying for Parker

Special Needs on a Frugal Budget

Special Needs. Medical Needs. One Income. Can it be done? The biggest factors that will determine your success? Your attitude. Your willingness to be efficient with your time. Your determination to ‘make it do, or do with out,’ in order to...

Published Tue, Oct 13 2015 9:46 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: From Scratch, Special Needs, blenderized diet, frugal living, prepping for hard times, special needs parenting, frugal budget

Yard Sale Search of 2014

It’s the busiest shopping season of the year! My Bailey Girl and I have been out on the hunt three times already! She’s decorating a brand new gorgeous and hip condo and, well, I’m looking for practical items. Whether looking for the...

Published Mon, Jun 16 2014 10:25 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: yard sales, Life With Special Needs, special needs parenting, saving money with yard sales, yard sailing, yard sale deals

Dehumanizing and Marginalizing Kids with Special Needs

What constitutes dehumanizing and marginalizing kids with special needs? The Huffington Post shared a recent blog post, My Child with a Disability is not My Hero, the author of which believes that the tendency of parents of kids with special needs and...

Published Fri, Jan 31 2014 7:24 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: down syndrome, Life With Special Needs, Politics of Special Needs, kids with special needs, special needs parenting, special needs blogger

Melissa and Doug Standing Art Easel and Supplies: A Giveaway!

Art is a window into a soul. With the swipe of a brush a heart’s worth of meaning can come to life. Creativity has the ability not only to inspire, but to heal. For a kid with special needs, art can be a form of communication, a way to master fine...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 2:31 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: down syndrome, Special Needs, giveaway, Melissa and Doug, contest, Standing Easel, Reviews and Giveaways!

Melissa and Doug Giveaway!

Parker is just entering into the world of pretend play. He loves to wear his hero cape, drive his little wooden cars, and cook in his kitchen. Yup. He cooks in his very own kitchen. We start ‘em out young at our house. So when Melissa and Doug asked...

Published Fri, Feb 05 2010 8:28 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Fantabulous-ness, Stuff We LOVE!, giveaway, Melissa and Doug

Upping Our Color Game

We’re upping our color game. Instead of simply matching colors, we are matching things that are a certain color. We’ve added a step to the process. And Parker is handling it like a pro. There are several ways you can do this. Parker likes...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2010 5:50 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Special Needs Homeschooling, Fantabulous-ness, Stuff We LOVE!, special needs homeschooling, teaching a child colors, preschool

Childhood Hunger in America

Imagine walking into your child’s classroom and knowing that 1 in every 3 of those kids were having to go hungry. In some midwestern states those are the statistics. Yup, right smack dab in our own backyards. Despite food stamps and community outreach...

Published Thu, Nov 19 2009 6:22 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Garden Goddess, Advocacy, From Scratch

Because There Is So Much That Depends On It.

We’ve been doing all things leaves lately. Using bright colors to represent the beauty of the Fall. Except the few leaves outside my window are brown and dried up. They are lacking life or beauty. Which is pretty much how I’ve been feeling...

Published Fri, Nov 13 2009 3:03 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Holding On Tight To My Faith, Frequent Flyin At The PCMC, A Day In Our Life, down syndrome, Special Needs, medically fragile children

We’re Having a Yard Sale!

Yup, this Saturday, June 19th you’ll find our front yard filled with all kinds of amazingness just waiting to come and live at YOUR house. heh. Seriously, we have some great stuff, lots of it donated by one of Parker’s sweet readers! Like...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 7:35 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Fantabulous-ness, yard sales

We are ALL beggars in God’s sight.

Back when I was a kid, and dinosaurs roamed the world, my Dad was in the military, we lived in Turkey. Whenever we lived overseas my Dad insisted we live on the economy. My Dad felt strongly that in order to really experience a country, you needed to...

Published Sun, Aug 01 2010 7:40 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Advocacy, down syndrome, Special Needs, medically fragile children

Because It Changes Everything

Have you entered our Mama K’s Aromatic Play Clay Giveaway! Go and do it NOW! Did you know that I don’t just write here? Yup, I write for other blogs. And I didn’t even have to beg them. They invited me. heh. I wanted to share with you...

Published Tue, Feb 22 2011 8:31 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Advocacy, down syndrome, Special Needs, People I Love, The Homeschool Post

Making Homemade Soup Stock: The Anyway Project

I owe a lot to my friend Sharon Astyk. She writes at both Casaubon’s Book over at Science Blogs, as well at her personal blog, The Chatelaine’s Keys. Through her view of the world and her intelligent discussions, I’ve been given cause...

Published Wed, Dec 01 2010 10:40 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Cheap and Easy, Totally Worth The Calories, From Scratch

‘Cause We Need A Little Christmas

Parker’s cardiologist just called. He wants to schedule Parker for a right heart cath. Yesterday. I very calmly told him that our family needed a little Christmas in our lives right now. More than anything else, we need some family time, looking...

Published Mon, Dec 13 2010 9:33 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life

On The First Day Of Christmas

The Blue Eyed girl to school was on her way … when look what she found! Such great excitement to begin our day! There’s a tag that says it all. And even a certain Brave Hero having himself a ball. A Family Movie Night! A Gift that is perfectly...

Published Tue, Dec 14 2010 4:03 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Fantabulous-ness

Stories My Mom Tells…..

There’s a story my Mom tells. It’s about one of her and my Dad’s very first Christmas seasons together. Neither my Mom nor my Dad came from rich digs. My Dad was raised in an orphanage. My Mom was the child of a single Mom who had dropped...

Published Mon, Dec 20 2010 8:36 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, People I Love

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