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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 23, 2007 8:24:26 GMT -5
i just ordered the one with the two young men authors(with ds)....but my ENORMOUS head can't remember the title of IT! Molly brought us all home a back-to-school head cold, and DADDY HER AND I are all home! (she seems to breezing along with a cough...him and i are LAID UP! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr)
which we'd be anyway because its still 100 degrees out there!
im so jealousssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!! ENJOY!
e & molly the bug meister
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 21, 2007 9:03:19 GMT -5
we lost little gabi this week...a member of another online group...she was but a baby, and her heart was not going to allow her to stay with us very long and my heart is breaking www.gabrielesheridan.blogspot.com
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 21, 2007 8:01:19 GMT -5
This man, Matthew's Dad, speaks my soul.
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ALWAYS REACHING
by Matthew's Dad
Every time I see my son, I reach for him.
It doesn't matter if he rounds the corner 4 seconds after I have seen him last, or if I am picking him up from school and have not seen him for hours...I reach for him.
I can be 1 foot away or 100 feet away...I reach for him just the same. I reach for him with my arms, with my eyes, with my heart.
I wonder somethimes what I am reaching for.
I have seen this in other people when they see my son.
My family, my friends and perfect strangers. They all reach for him.
I see the same movements, the same gestures, the same need to hold out their hands for him. They want him to come to them, some know him and some don't. Some call his name and others just motion for him. But they all seem to want him to come.
For a moment, you can see his spirit reflected in their faces. I watch the smiles grow across their faces with a fullness that is unavoidable.
When he falls into their arms (which is what he does to everyone), I see a momentary peace envelop them, and their eyes close, they pull him in and they experience what I call "The Joy of Matthew"
He gives it to you. He wraps you in it. He wriggles and squirms and mashes the love into you. If you did not know what to expect, you may be surprised and find yourself amazed at the feeling, overwhelmed at the emotion he carries with him.
I am lucky. I get to hold him all the time.
And I have been able to think about that feeling and where it comes from and what it may mean. I think Matthew is a window through which we see a pureness of emotion... pure happiness, pure sorrow, pure joy and pure love.
Despite what some may think, our special children are closer to God than we are. We see so much in them that we lack. We wish quietly in so many ways that we could be more like them. And when we hold them, if just for a moment, we feel closer to God.
That must be why I am always reaching for my son.
That must be why they all reach for him.
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 23, 2007 12:02:43 GMT -5
where did you put them?
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 21, 2007 8:01:57 GMT -5
photobucket has that capability, i think
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 19, 2007 8:41:55 GMT -5
oh man...THIS is why i fell in love with the WIGGLES! she was sooooooooo tiny, and the big kids left the wiggles on the TV one morning...and her on the bed. I walked by and she was up on her hands, chest up, straining to see the wiggles!
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!
congrats!! EACH new movement is a CELEBRATION!!! That's what makes our kids SO COOL!
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 19, 2007 8:39:31 GMT -5
we started this week!! WED!!
IT WAS DIFFICULT!! but it's getting better.....I sent 20 copies of a letter (another mom show'd me hers) discussing DS, and molly and they LOVED IT!! (and did pass it on to all the other families) Then copied off A's welcome kit...and although only have ONE DAY OFF THIS WEEK! EEEEEEEEEEEK!! i plan on working on it today!
the routine and structure is NECESSARY!! i vote for year round school....with long vacations worked in...but NOT 3 MONTHS OF IT!
JMHO
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 17, 2007 19:27:23 GMT -5
oh girl...you are not the first mom i've heard moan over this! im soooooooooo sorry, i KNOW it's a headache, and a heartbreak...not being able to keep your kid 'well'. And they are just chemicals.....the body/brain can work well for awhile, getting everyone's hopes up..and then all of a sudden BLAMMO! tweeking away again!
but while finding out the right combo is...everyone is in limbo!
i also know that it is EXTREMELY hard on a mommy...and will keep you in our prayers.!
hope the day at the beach is FUN FUN FUN!!
peace,
e
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 22, 2007 8:33:24 GMT -5
too cool A!
my mom sent me a quilt....
when i was little, i'd wrap up in this old pink blanket, and sit on a grate furnace in the winter...our house was an old farm house, and always cold!
when i looked at the quilt, i saw the back of it was pink so opened it up and flipped it over...and sure enough! there are yellow stripes (where the grate burned the blanket) all over it!!
she saved my blankeeeee!
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 17, 2007 19:20:35 GMT -5
hope this doesn't go twice...
I'm from nebraska, and just outside Ogallala, lies the biggest lake in the state. It's called lake mcconaghey....but the locals all call it 'big mac'
So all the resorts and marina's there have that saying on tshirts and cooley cups...etc
Just wondering if she got to the lake and got a goofy T SHIRT!
the beeb is resting close here...and i may get the hospital address, if , of course i ever find her legs....and i'm baby sitting the choc lab...who eats EVERYTHING! so that is a pretty big IF!
she seems to be ok with it....her future MIL, brandi, bought her a pink spongebob at the crayola store in KC...and she's pretty enamored with that!
me?? i may never recover!! she's had that baby since SHE was a baby...really like to 'dangle' her legs and make her dance, and i saw the first 'imagination' moments with it (as well as talking moments)..and as her first 'maternal' instincts...as she would tuck it in at night under a towel, or handerchief...or whatever was handy, and give it a kiss nite nite.
and now? she's in FIRST GRADE anyway!!...she thinks she's too big, im sure.
*sniff*
i thought i'd get to have a baby.......just a little bit longer than the others with my molly,
I WAS WRONG!
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 16, 2007 19:41:14 GMT -5
ogallala? HEY!@! I got SAND in my crack at BIG MAC!! hehehehe
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 16, 2007 9:23:38 GMT -5
THE dancin-dangly-legged-go-with-me-everywhere BEEEEEEB!!! is dancin' no longer *sniff*
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 16, 2007 19:45:29 GMT -5
we've come a long way, babies!
THAT was the norm just a short time ago!
WOW!
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 14, 2007 20:37:42 GMT -5
you know?? I loved my husband...but fell HEAD OVER HEELS when I got to see him in action...receiving the news about molly and loving her as her daddy....
Although we don't get alot of alone time in the summer ...it just means we have to be a little more creative in sneaking away!! and that's fun, too!!
yall ...he is THE best DAD in the world....and i find that MORE SEXY...than anything else a man could be!
George Clooney could take lessons!!
*beam*
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Post by mollysmomma on Aug 12, 2007 21:05:29 GMT -5
reminds me of Hitler
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