Today during work, a co-worker stopped by my office. She hadn’t stopped by in a while.  She was looking around my office and asked if I had new pictures of the monkey. She then said the dreaded statement: “He must be talking a lot now.” So here is where I get stuck. What should I…

A few weeks ago we received a progress report from the monkey’s speech therapist from school. It said he has shown minimal progress to the goals that were established in his annual IEP meeting.  And I’m going to be honest…  that just hurt. I am guessing seeing it in writing just stands out so much more….

Having a child with special needs changed our ‘normal’. Even though our monkey is four years old, he can’t dress himself.  Our mornings start by us dressing him.  The constant “You are going to school” phrase is being said over and over again.  We do this so he understands what the plan is for the…

My son just turned four years old.  As this day was approaching, one wish keeps nudging my heart.  I wish for him to talk.  I have high hopes; high dreams that this will be the year where he tells me how his day was.  The year where he says mama.  The year where I can…