Praying for Parker

Pine Cone Bird Feeders: A Tutorial

While you are here would you take a moment and click on our sponsor’s buttons there to your right? Sponsors help keep Parker’s medical needs met! We also have a brand new Google Friend Connect installed. We are using this to know how many...

Published Tue, Jan 04 2011 8:01 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Special Needs Homeschooling, Doing it Special Needs Style

Dear Sargent Steam

Dear Sargent Steam, I know this is a long shot. But to be honest, the last 6.5 years of my life have been filled with long shots. Some worked out. Some didn’t. But nothing would ever have been accomplished without first opening up a dialogue. So...

Published Tue, May 17 2011 5:35 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life, Sargent Stean

How to Plant Onions

We’ve been busy planting. All kinds of goodness just starting to make it’s debut. One bit of goodness coming up are onions! We planted white, yellow and purple onion bulbs! Onions are so easy to plant and give you such a great return on your...

Published Mon, May 09 2011 10:11 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: From Scratch, backyard gardening, how to plant onions, grow your own food

Preventing Sexual Abuse of Children with Special Needs

Estimates show that up to 90% of females with an intellectual disability and up to 50% of males will be sexually abused. *gasp* I truly didn’t realize the numbers were so high. I also didn’t know that Ped*phile websites often mention children...

Published Fri, Nov 18 2011 7:51 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Advocacy, Special Needs, Life With Special Needs, sexual abuse, childre

Educating Your Child With Special Needs

It’s a hot topic. Especially where I live. Educating your child with Down syndrome. Or any other ‘different’ for that matter. Do you choose a small groups/life skills class? Total or partial inclusion? How many hours a day in a typical...

Published Wed, Sep 14 2011 9:34 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: A Day In Our Life

What is the worth of a life?

As I stood watching a medical team access Parker after his first life flight to Primary Medical Center, a Pediatrician made his way toward me and shared this bit of reality: Over 50% of all marriages end after the birth of a child with special needs....

Published Thu, Oct 06 2011 9:45 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: The HIGH Cost of Health Care, Advocacy, medicaid, Carl Wimmer, Life With Special Needs, post traumatic stress disorder, Politics of Special Needs

A Paper Plate Pumpkin Craft

Some days you just have to tell yourself that the mess really is worth it. Parker and I picked the first pumpkin of the season today. Then we worked with paint, glue, and paper products trying to pay homage to the freshly snatched orange...

Published Fri, Sep 21 2012 6:58 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, Art Activities, paper plate pumpkin craft

The Week in Pictures: Garden Edition

This summer has flown by. A hot blur of days where I mostly felt I was trying to play catch up while running in place. This year’s garden? Pretty much left on it’s own. It’s hard to try to unravel the new mysteries going...

Published Fri, Sep 14 2012 1:47 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Life With Special Needs

As Brave and Strong

Unlike my other pregnancies where I had only the typical 5th month sonogram (boy or girl?) my pregnancy with Parker was filled with invasions of his privacy. By far my favorites are the little black and white pictures taken early in Parker’s...

Published Fri, Jul 06 2012 1:57 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Life With Special Needs, Frequent Flyin' ar the PCMC, ulcerative colitis

Homeschool Idea Round-Up

I’ve been working putting together Parker’s home school curriculum. This year my goal is to have everything ready to rock and roll rather than doing month to month plans. Why? Because inevitably Parker gets sick, we have to stop...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2012 3:17 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling

August

August at our house is pretty traditional. Brown Eyed Susans in their glory. Peaches making their way to the dehydrator and freezer. Frozen Blackberries. The usual squash take over….. And a beautiful little boy coming back from...

Published Thu, Aug 02 2012 11:48 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: down syndrome, stockpiling, Victory Garden, Family and Friends, ulcerative colitis

Saving Money by DIY.

We have a bathroom in our home, the shower in which we haven’t been able to use in close to 4 years. Reed had tiled it years ago, but over time we developed an issue and the tiles started to fall off. Reed blamed the kids for not taking care of...

Published Mon, Mar 19 2012 10:25 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: frugal living, DIY, my husband rocks

Learning how to spell your name…

I should have named him Bill. Not only less letters, but easier to write too. But we’re working on it. Let me show you how. I printed Parker’s name in watercolor chalks. Then Parker took a watercolor brush and ‘painted’ over his...

Published Thu, Jan 12 2012 6:54 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, home school, Reading Activities, name spelling activities, name writing activities, sensory activities

Sometimes it’s okay to ask for less.

Reed and I aren’t great at answering the phone. If there isn’t a kid around to answer it for us we’ll often just pretend we don’t hear it ringing, unless we are pretty much sitting right on top of it. Guess where I was sitting...

Published Thu, Jan 05 2012 9:05 AM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Holding On Tight To My Faith, down syndrome, Family and Friends, visiting teaching

A Santa Craft!

I’m all about the texture crafts to help meet Parker’s sensory seeking nature. There some though that I tend to shy away from because of the trach. Like anything with cotton balls. I can just see me trying to explain to Parker’s surgeon...

Published Fri, Dec 09 2011 1:54 PM by Praying For Parker

Filed under: Special Needs Homeschooling, homeschooling, Santa crafts, Art, Art Activities

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