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How to Have a Healthy Family During a Crazy Germ Season

How to have a healthy family during a crazy germ season: Not to brag, but I was a germophobe long before being a germophobe was all the rage. You could call me a pioneering germophobe. Our family socially distanced before it was cool. We lived like hermits and rage cleaned things normal people View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Life Style, Motherhood Tagged With: germs, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, review, special needs

The 10 Must Have Items For Your Baby’s Medicine Cabinet

The 10 must-have items for your baby's medicine cabinet. These supplies will get new moms and veteran moms through baby's first colds and fevers with ease! The 10 Must-Have Items For Your Baby's Medicine Cabinet Whether you are an expecting mom, new mom or one who has trudged through the trenches View Post

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The right things to say to special needs parents. Words for comfort for special needs parents. How do you comfort someone with a newly diagnosed child? These words of comfort are great! #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsParents #thingstosay #wordsofcomfort #comfort #specialneedsmom #heartmom #MamaintheNow

Words of Comfort for Special Needs Parents: (What to say and NOT to Say!)

What do you say when your best friend's child is sick? What words of comfort do special needs parents need to hear? What do they NOT want to hear? Words of comfort for special needs parents: I received a text message from my best friend. Her daughter was admitted to the hospital (again) last View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Special Needs Tagged With: Caregiver, friends, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, special needs

How do you comfort a grieving moms. Learn the words to say to comfort a grieving parent. Words to comfort special needs parents. Words to comfort a special needs mom. #RightWords #WordstoSay #ComfortingaGrievingMom #SpecialNeedsMom #ComfortingWords #mamainthenow

How to Comfort a Grieving Mother

What do you say when your best friend's child has been diagnosed with cancer? I didn't know how to comfort a grieving mother. But these tips helped... What do you say to a mother, your best friend, who’s 4 year old was just diagnosed with Leukemia? What do you do when you live several states away View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Motherhood, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: friends, health, live in the now, special needs

The 100 best random acts of kindness for kids. RAOK for kids. Random acts of kindness for families. 100 ways to spread kindness. Teach your kids kindness, empathy and generosity with these 100 awesome acts of kindness. #RAOK #RAOKForKids #RandomActsofKindness #Parenting #TeachingKidsKindness #RaisingKindKids #mamaintheNow

The 100 Best Random Acts of Kindness for Kids

Random Acts of Kindness for Kids “Mama, do you know what day it is on Wednesday?” Jansen, with his toothless grin looked at me with suspense in his voice. He’s our first grader. Our old soul. He’s the kid who gives me a well-timed hug when I am having a bad day or he picks yellow flowers on the View Post

Filed Under: Hygge, Life Style, Motherhood, Parenting Tagged With: friends, Happiness, health, live in the now, special needs

Tips for special needs moms. Tips for newly diagnosed medical moms. How to adjust to your new normal when your child has just been diagnosed. Help for heart moms with heart warriors. Learn how to find your happiness again as a medical mom, special needs moms. Find your happiness after a medical diagnosis. #MedicalMom #HeartMom #HeartWarrior #SpecialNeeds #SpecialNeedsMom #MamaintheNow

5 Important Things Every New Medical Mom Should Do

New Medical Moms, Listen Up! I am the mother of four boys ages 8 and younger. One of our little ones is medically complex and was diagnosed a few days after his text-book-delivery via scheduled c-section. He spent the first two months fighting for his life in the PICU, in a medically induced coma View Post

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Medical moms and special needs moms find their happiness again. Empowering and encouraging story for moms with sick children, kids with medical conditions and special needs children. Happiness in motherhood IS very possible. #Motherhood #SpecialNeeds #MedicalMom

Happiness is Being a Medical Mom! Really – It IS!

It was a pretty normal Tuesday morning. I was on my way to work, dressed in my standard navy business suit with a few snot stains around my knees and some crusty baby food over my left shoulder. The two oldest kids were in school, while our youngest was at home with our nanny. (At the time, we only View Post

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Staying authentic when parenting gets real. When your child with serious medical conditions asks the toughest questions, you have to stay authentic, be real and honest. One mom offers you the encouragement you will need! Special needs moms, medical moms and heart moms unite!

Staying Authentic When Parenting Gets REAL!

Have you ever had to be so REAL with your child that it hurt? - Like you were punched in the gut?! Well, today I managed to stay authentic when parenting got real, it was down-right raw! It was a normal afternoon after school pickup. The kids’ mouths didn’t stand still for a minute. They were View Post

Filed Under: Heart, Our Life, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: family, Happiness, health, Heart, live in the now, Motherhood, Parenting Shortcut, special needs

10 things other parents need to know about ADHD in girls. Insightful, empowering and educational article written by a mother with ADHD about her daughter with ADHD.

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About ADHD in Girls

I am excited to share this article with you about ADHD in girls. The ten questions featured in this series of "10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About..." are answered by a mother with ADHD about her young daughter, also with ADHD. This is incredibly insightful, empowering and educational. Please View Post

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10 things other parents need to know about childhood apraxia of speech. This encouraging information is important for families affected by speech delays! A MUST READ from a family who has been trying to help their son for 4 years!

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Today I am sharing this heartfelt post from Alexandria about her almost 4 year old son Ian. I know her information will empower and educate someone else in the same situation! The rest of this is her writing! Since he was about 18 months old we have had him enrolled in early intervention classes View Post

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10 things other parents need to know about Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. This is a great resource for newly diagnosed families as well as veteran ones.

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes

I am SO honored to have my friend Megan share her experience with Type 1 Juvenile Diabetes. Her beautiful daughter, Maeve was diagnosed several years ago when she was just a toddler. Megan and Maeve have done an incredible job spreading awareness and educating others of the devastating disease. View Post

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10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS). Real encouragement from a heart mom.

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)

I met Caelen's mom several years ago before she moved to Florida. We connected in a Facebook group for heart moms, because that's what heart moms do - they connect, instantly. Caelen was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome ("HLHS"), which means that the left side of his heart is severely View Post

Filed Under: Health, Heart, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: 10 Things Other Parents Need to Know, germs, health, Heart, Kids, special needs

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Minimal Change Disease and Hashimoto's Hypothyroidism.

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About Minimal Change and Hashimoto’s

Hunting for a diagnosis is frustrating and all-consuming for parents who have children with medical conditions. Often parents "know" that there is something wrong with their child, but finding the right medical professional or specialist to listen can seem impossible. Thankfully this mom, a friend View Post

Filed Under: Health, Parenting, Special Needs Tagged With: 10 Things Other Parents Need to Know, germs, health, Kids, special needs

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About FPIES Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome)

10 Things Other Parents Need to Know About FPIES

This week a good friend of mine is helping other parents with children diagnosed with FPIES. FPIES stands for Food Protein Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome. I met this mom a few years ago when her son was newly diagnosed. I was blown away at the journey she had been on to finally get a diagnosis. Now View Post

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