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Hey, Nurses, Happy Special Needs Caregivers Day

The evolution of National Nurses Week (May 6, 2014 – May 12, 2014) and National Nurses Day, which will honor nurses this year on Tuesday, May 6, 2014, has been a well-deserved reward for the hard work and dedication of nurses in all areas of the profession. Doctors don’t need any recognition like this because […]

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I Used to Be a Special Needs Mommy

One of the smartest people I know – now a judge, but first a mother – once told me that you’re only as happy as your least happy child. She told me this when I myself was a new mother of less than a few months, waist high in dirty diapers, developmentally-appropriate crib toys, empty […]

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The Gift of Dreams Realized

Mothers spend a considerable amount of time daydreaming about the future of their unborn children ~ especially mothers relegated to bed rest at any point during pregnancy. In the left side-lying position I was obligated to assume for the last month before my son, David, was born in November of 2000, I often dreamt of […]

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