Posted on October 6, 2009 by Carissa
Parenting can be and sometimes is overwhelming. Add a disabled child, whether that child’s disability be physical, mental, learning-oriented or some other condition, and parenting can be that much more daunting. When you have more than one child, no matter how able or disabled each may be, there are strategies to handling parenthood to help [...]
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Posted on October 4, 2009 by Carissa
One year ago today I was all packed and ready to go to Korea, my phone rang NON-stop and I was trying very hard to shop on the Scenic Drive with family before we all piled into my mom’s car, complete with car seats and drove to Chicago to board the plane to Korea. I [...]
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Posted on October 1, 2009 by Carissa
(Little Princess’ First Picture – she was 4.5 months old)
(Little Man’s First Picture – he was 4.5 months as well!)
Has it really been a year since we received that e-mail that changed our lives? We had accepted the twins referral back in April unofficially, officially in early July and then waited….and waited. We would sign [...]
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Posted on September 3, 2009 by Carissa
So, lately I have been a little stressed about some things that I do not plan to discuss on here but my biggest stress is my children and those wonderful (insert sarcasm) terrible twos. I am so not sure what happened to my beautiful amazing babies but some demon has inhabited them and refuses [...]
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Posted on August 11, 2009 by Carissa
So I know on the show I said I would get this up later that day – well it didn’t happen, sorry! DO NOT FORGET THAT NEXT WEEK WE MOVE TO MONDAYS AT 10 PM EST and the show will last an hour now! Next weeks show is on Finding time for Mommy (and Daddy) [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2009 by Carissa
Ok so it was a LONG weekend…I received MANY questions on how I made the collages of Little Man and Little Princess in the last post especially since I do not have Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. I used the Picnik website – you can use it for free but the bigger collages such as those [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2009 by Carissa
So this is much of our time together – Little Man has discovered his eyelashes (can a woman envy a toddler’s eyelashes) and he loves to try to touch them. He even has a scratch on his right eyelid due to his need to touch his eye lashes!
I just like the way the edits on this picture turned [...]
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