For what seems like the umpteenth time in the last two years, our family is undergoing a major transition. A little less than 2 weeks ago, Mike was transferred from his previous DOC facility seven hours away from home in the Florida panhandle to a community custody rehab facility that is a 40 minute drive [...]
Our Brave Girl
February 25, 2012 by
I seem to spend so much time lately just in awe of my little girl. If you follow me on Twitter or listen to Paperclipping Roundtable, you may have picked up bits and pieces of the fact that our family is facing yet another new challenge in the past few months (and I also mentioned [...]
Good Riddance 2011…Welcome 2012
December 31, 2011 by
This time last year, we faced the coming of the new year with nothing but dread. We knew Mike was going into custody in a few days. Life as we knew it would be over for the forseeable future. There was nothing to look forward to about 2011. But 2011 has passed now. It felt [...]
Seven Months Down
August 13, 2011 by
This post was originally supposed to be titled “six months down” but CHA kind of hit like a hurricane around here, and best intentions about things I was going to post on this site went out the window. (Case in point: the previous post of the June #6 tag that I just got around to [...]
Negotiations
January 14, 2011 by
Some things will never make sense to a 7 year old, especially one with autism. Tonight at bedtime we had a talk. She’d been seeming sad and so I asked if she was missing her Daddy. It didn’t take long to determine, even with her limited communication skills, that the answer was most definitely yes. [...]