What’s Cookin’ is just a cute way to say, “How are you doing during the Covid quarantine?” We are fortunate that my husband can work from home. I have been engaged in a bit of advocacy and coordinating a few […]
Haven’t shared any blogs during Covid. Maybe I’ll do one next week on Rachel’s transition home from college. Today’s topic is Rachel’s Faith. Rachel started presenting a Power Point presentation about her life and dreams to her IEP team when […]
Today is Take the #PledgeToInclude Day. You may be more familiar with Take the Pledge to End the Use of the R-Word pledge . Founded by two youth leaders in 2009 as Spread the Word to End the Word, the […]
My baby brother would have been 55 this Friday, February 21. That sounds so strange to me. He has been gone 33 years, Saturday morning at about 2:30 AM. Thirty-three years sounds strange, too. I don’t think of him everyday […]
Twenty-one years ago today, I brought my husband home from his overnight hospital stay. He had a colorectal tumor removed. He was 34. He had no history of cancer in his family. He was young. He was healthy. In just […]
Rachel just returned for her 3rd semester in the Missouri State Bear POWER program. She truly loves being a college girl. While she was home, we were cleaning out her notebooks. Actually, it was mostly me cleaning out her notebooks. […]
It’s time to ring out the 2019 and welcome 2020 by posting our top blogs from 2019. I’m going to share my top five as chosen by you, my readers. Number one jumped to the top of my all-time most […]
It has been a big year at our house. Rachel started college and is part of the first class of the Missouri State University Bear POWER program in Springfield, MO. She started in January and loves being a college girl. […]
Rachel finished her second semester of college as part of the Missouri State University Bear POWER program last week. I told her that everyone would want an update on her semester and asked her if we could write a blog […]
This week we attended the State of the Art Conference on Inclusive Post-secondary Education and Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities. We had never attended before, and we truly enjoyed the sessions, keynotes, student leadership conference portion and networking with other students, […]