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February 2014

February 03, 2014

7 Thoughts on How to Survive Another Snow Day (and maybe even enjoy it)

1. If even a hint of snow is expected, turn off the ringer on your...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

Peeking Into the Womb

My new post for her.meneutics about the purpose of ultrasounds in the modern age.

November 2013

November 11, 2013

Our Children, Collectively (a guest post by Jennifer Grant in honor of National Adoption Month)

"When we adopt a child, whether she was born in a land far away (as...

November 04, 2013

Announcing Small Talk (or, I Get to Write Another Book!)

Small Talk (to be published by Zondervan next summer) is a parenting memoir about the...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Some Thoughts on Trying to Become a Super-Mom

"It feels very strange, to be this mom who thinks ahead and offers relatively healthy...

September 03, 2013

The Days are Long, but the Years are Short

Are you happy or sad that your kid has gone back to school?

June 2013

June 04, 2013

Talking About Disability With Your Kids (on PBS Parents)

Even though I have a daughter with Down syndrome, for a long time I didn't...

April 2013

April 25, 2013

Let there be Yes: A Poem and Giveaway by Sarah Dunning Park

Poet and mother Sarah Dunning Park shares a poem and some thoughts about saying no,...

March 2013

March 13, 2013

Missing Out on Beautiful: A Reflection on Down Syndrome, Life, and Love

How can I put into words the beauty I see when I look at my...

March 12, 2013

What Are You Teaching Your Children About Food? A Guest Post from Rachel Marie Stone

"I felt I was receiving conflicting messages: the first being that my baby’s well-being was...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

My Kids Keep Teaching Me How to Pray

"I have so much in my head. I need to pray a lot."

January 2013

January 10, 2013

Mommy, What Does Forgive Mean?

How fighting with my son and a murder case in Florida helped me understand more...

January 07, 2013

What Penny’s Birthday and Epiphany Taught Me About Who We All Are

I look forward to the mystery unfolding before me in each of my children

December 2012

December 20, 2012

What I will Teach my Children After Sandy Hook

I want goodness to triumph in my children's lives, and one thing I can do...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

She is Patient, and Brave, and Kind, and I Am Grateful

Learning something about contentment from my daughter...

November 16, 2012

How a trip to Arkansas made me miss my messy life

I’m incredibly grateful for the break. And incredibly grateful to return to my messy, inefficient,...

November 12, 2012

Learning How to Love My Kids, Again (or why I’m thankful for Veteran’s day even though it means another day off of school)

The morning started badly, but we're working it out as a family, I hope...

March 2012

March 15, 2012

Dads-in-Chief, or What I Like About Rick Santorum and President Obama

When Sarah Palin first accepted the vice presidential nomination in 2008, I thought I should...

March 05, 2012

Maybe Parenting Really is all about Money

Lisa Belkin posted a really interesting piece about how having money relates to being a...

February 2012

February 03, 2012

The Truth About You…

My friend Sara Hagerty, who writes about her family of four children (three girls and...

October 2011

October 11, 2011

The Comparison Trap

I've been thinking about comparisons. We do it without thinking--compare our waistline to the person...

July 2011

July 29, 2011

Our Annual Co-Parenting Experiment

I have a new post on Motherlode ("Learning to Walk in Another's Flip-Flops"), the parenting...

July 08, 2011

What Rachel Simon Told Me About Being a Sibling of Someone with a Disability

A few weeks ago, I reviewed Rachel Simon's new novel, The Story of Beautiful Girl....

June 2011

June 23, 2011

College, Down Syndrome, and the Plans we Have…

It happens all the time. Friends talk about our children, their own children, their grandchildren...

June 13, 2011

Lessons from Losing Dessert

We aren't a dessert-every-night kind of family. In fact, we're more of a dessert-once-a-week-if-you're-lucky type....

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