As a mother I am always wondering if am I good enough. Am I doing my best? Is my best good enough? When I climb into bed every night I always turn to my husband and say “I feel bad for saying this or that to Mia, Ava and Jack today. I’ll try again tomorrow”. That mindset has […]
10 years ago
Ava Finn bounced into our world as a leap year baby in 2008. She was the smallest baby I had ever seen, weighing only 5lbs 6 oz… that she was 10 days overdue! She was like a doll. Perfect. Mia was three, and was being assessed for autism, when Ava arrived. We had just bought our […]
10 years ago
Mia arrived in 2004. It’s hard to believe we started this journey that long ago. Our little baby girl is growing up, yet I find myself struggling to think too far ahead. When you have a child with a disability, it makes the world a much scarier place. Mia has Aspergers Syndrome. When she came […]
10 years ago
When I was younger my dad always told me I was going to be a writer. I loved to write. I used to write my parents letters and stories. Each time, no matter what I had written, good or bad, he would say ‘Your gonna be a writer!’ So that was my plan; to be […]
10 years ago