Faith, Hope, & Love
On Friday, I shared with you how my family enjoyed a tea-party to usher in Fall. We love tea times because it is a way to connect with my children. We share some yummy snacks, and we get to enjoy some beautiful poetry. [Read more…] about Yummy & Easy Cream Cheese Chocolate Chip Muffins
Today is a special day… it’s the First Day of Fall! Yay!!! On Monday when I filled in my schedule for the week I quickly jotted down the words “Poetry Tea Time” for Thursday but when I did that I didn’t notice that it was technically the last day of Summer. [Read more…] about Kick off to Fall: Poetry Tea Time
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Last month, as the school year approached, I decided that we should do something a little different for our geography, social studies, history curriculum. We decided for our Fall Semester we would just study one continent — Africa.
Confident of God’s call on his life, in the Ebola epidemic Dr. Kent Brantly continues to serve. From Samaritan’s Purse, FACING DARKNESS releases March 30, 2017. (Photo credit: Samaritan’s Purse)
As I gathered my resources together, I chose a few missionaries that I wanted to study in depth and few books we could read. I remembered a movie that I watched with my husband, in the theater, not too long ago. In preparation for this school year, I added Facing Darkness
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Dreams. All of us have them. Some of our dreams our big and some small. Some of our small dreams are big dreams to others. Like today when I read that a little boy wrote to the White House to ask President Trump if he could mow the White House lawn. His dream came true when he was able to do just that.
Most of you know that my oldest son, Adam, has special needs. He was diagnosed with Autism and Cerebral Palsy as a young child.
We knew at an early age that Adam struggled with his gross motor skills. We later realized that he had fallen further and further behind his peers in other skills (fine motor, speech, and cognitive skills).
As the years marched on, we hired a group of therapists that would work with Adam, many right out of our home. We created a list of life skills and goals that we wanted our son to achieve and learn. I was taught, early on, by his ABA therapists that we need to always know what rewards him. We used a lot of positive reinforcement in his sessions to motivate him toward good and positive behavior.
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