Woo Hoo! You're a first time visitor here. Thank you so much for stopping by! If you like what I have to say please sign up for my RSS feed! RSS feed. Thanks again for visiting :-) I’ve lived in Northern Michigan pretty much my entire life. When you live up here you know how serious morel mushroom hunting season is! Heck, even a local town puts on a festival in...

This year one of the teachers my son has decided to have all the kids write letters to their moms and mail them. It was super sweet to get the letter in the mail and see what Caleb had to write about me. Dear Mom I am writing this because it is mothers day. You are important to me because you love me unconditionally, put food on the tables, roof over my head, take...

I’m not sure that I’ll ever get used to the fact that I have a special needs son. I’m so thankful that his special needs aren’t anything extremely serious. Learning disabilities are pretty ‘easy’ to work with from what I gathered during his IEP meeting this past Wednesday. I’m still pretty emotional about all this. While...

Caleb has been going through a series of testing at the school because I pushed (it’s really sad that parents have to push so hard now a days to get their child help!) to have something done about getting him extra help. He’s struggled with school ever since he started (he’s in 6th grade now). I’ve been told over and over from different...

First, before I get into the question – does this make me a bad mom – I have to give you the background story. Awhile ago I wrote a post I May Have Found A Solution where I talked about the possibility of moving to Charlevoix so that my son could have what he thought would be the best of both worlds (live one week with his dad, step mom & baby brother...

I haven’t figured out why a parent has to jump through soooo many hoops to get their child some extra help with learning in a public school system! It infuriates me and makes me wanna pull my hair out on a regular basis. My son has had difficulties with school both socially and academically since he started. I held him back in 1st grade because his reading...