Saturday, May 22, 2010

Crown Giveaway

Ellen, over at "LOVE THAT MAX", is doing a giveaway for a our custom crowns for (3) different winners. She is an awesome mom with an awesome son and she has a great blog that I LOVE reading.

If you have not had a chance to sign up for the giveaway, head on over to her blog and sign up! It ends on May 25th. Here is the link to the giveaway and good luck! Crown Giveaway

Here's a few examples of our latest creations....







Thursday, May 6, 2010

Cares for Kids Radiothon

A couple years ago Daniel was one of the children that helped with the 96.3 Radiothon.
Well its going on right now - TODAY
and its still an awesome program.
So if you can bring yourself to make a donation please do.

Here is what the interview/song was that they played for Daniel. Listen to the song and it just makes you wanna blubber...at least it does me!

DONATE 1-866-963-GIVE
Photo and video editing at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Heres a photo of Daniel on bike day. Picking out which bike he wanted.!!

Stay At Home Mom

Someone recently asked me what line of work I did.
Well currently I am not working outside the home.
I am taking care of my son.

Oh so you're a stay at home mom!

Um....

I am very rarely home. I take Daniel to school and come home to work on my little business and make phone calls to insurance companies, providers, schedule doctors appointments. If I'm lucky I also take a shower during this time.
Then on good scheduled days I bring Daniel home to eat lunch and hopefully he gets in a 20-30 minute nap. While he's napping I'm trying to clean or continue with phone calls. Then we run and drive 30-45 minutes to therapy for an hour and drive another 30-45 minutes back home. Of course like I said on a good scheduled day that's how it goes. Most days are not well scheduled and we have no time in between school and therapy so we leave right from school get to therapy and eat in 15 minutes. Then its sometimes 2 or 3 therapies in a row, sometimes we have an hour to drive from one therapy facility to another one that is about 30 minutes away and he eats again. This is done 5 days a week.

Just to give you a look at Daniel's schedule-which by the way is also mine :)

Monday:
8:00-9:00 get ready for school, stretch legs and arms, eat breakfast, medicines

9:00- 11:00 school
11:00-12:00 drive to therapy and eat lunch in the lobby
12:00-1:15 speech therapy
1:15-2:00 drive home
2:00-2:30 eat snack
2:30-3:30 naps
3:30-4:00 Drive to therapy
4:00-5:00 Physical therapy
5:00 -5:45 drive home
5:45-6:00 helps get dinner ready
6:00-6:30 eat dinner
6:30-7:30 hangs with family
7:30-8:30 gets meds, stretches and ready for bed

This is a day with no doctors appointments and no other errands to run...get the idea?

Stay at home mom?
Um I don't think so....I wish! Us "stay at home mom's" aren't always so "lucky" as people tend to think. I'm not sitting in front of my TV eating bonbons, and NO I don't get to sleep in either!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Cinco de mayo

Cinco de mayo.
The most I know about this day is that it is a Mexican holiday, I received flowers one year from a good friend on this day AND my oldest daughters boyfriends birthday. Until then...I didn't have a clue.
SO....

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOSHUA!!!




Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Sneaky little booger!

Check out what Daniel is learning to do. Its a little "inchstone" for us.
If you can stand watching the video and don't puke from the movement of me trying to video tape him and also trying to keep my hands ready in case he should fall.


Monday, May 3, 2010

Ms. M (Prechool Teacher)

It is really sad, Daniel just starts back at school and his teachers' last day was on Friday.
I liked her a lot. Makes me very sad that she isn't going to be there anymore. She left for maternity leave. I'm happy she gets some time off to care for her daughter and be with her before the next baby comes. But sad because she understood Daniel so much, and I know she cared for him too.

She is the reason that I was comfortable sending him off to school. She works with children of different needs and is really awesome. You can tell she loves being around the kiddos.

What sucks even more is that next year Daniel will be moving up to full day kindergarten and he will have a new teacher.

So I'm all boo-boo lipped about the whole thing. Here is a picture that pretty much sums up how we feel about the whole situation!


But we do wish Ms. M has fun with her growing family!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

My Child has Special Needs.....

My post today is going to be fairly simple.
Why you ask?
Because I'm stealing it from Ellen. Thanks Ellen!

Read this and then imagine me standing beside her and saying "Yeah! What she said!"

So very well written and oh so very true!