A single day in first grade. An assignment comes home in Tess's bag. It is hard for us to read it. Let me tell you what it says.
Read More#83: PermaToddler (Intellectual Disabilities Part 2)
This week: what if you had a toddler who never grew up? All that stuff you do, busting your tail to care for them -- what if you could never stop doing that? How long could you last?
Read More#82: Here's the Deal (Intellectual Disabilities Part 1)
This week: an epic fail. It happened because I wasn't ready. I have a speech about Tess and it isn't finished. But it needs to be.
Read More#58: The Wanderer
This week, I saw progress from Tess. With my own eyes. In a hallway and in a series of offices, on a Thursday afternoon in the town of Windham, Maine.
Read More#43: I Got the Toy Store Blues
This week, Tess turns six. Her classmates sing happy birthday, we celebrate her at home, and I take a shopping trip that turns out to be awful in ways that I never expected.
Read More#26: Tooth or Consequences
This week, the milestones that don't get moved. That aren't delayed. The stuff that happens to your kid when they reach a certain age, no matter what.
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