Nearly every time I took my kids out in public when they were little a sentimental senior would remind me to enjoy them or tell me how quickly they would grow– how precious these days were. Sometimes they would offer their well-meaning advice when the kids were holding hands and happy and no one had […]

It’s been a little while since I’ve opened up here. Honestly, it’s been a little while since I’ve written anything here at all. Sometimes I feel like it’s because I don’t have much left to say but other times it’s because I have too much to say and don’t know where to start. I guess […]

I spend a lot of time trying to explain to people how raising a non-verbal child with autism is quite similar to raising a verbal child who isn’t on the spectrum. This is because, for the world at large, the differences are glaring. It’s the similarities that need to be spotlighted. After all, kids are kids. Lucas has […]