My 3 favorite girls

I am lucky to have 3 really important girls in my life…

My mom
Myself
My daughter

They are so important to me that I had to write it up somewhere in permanent ink!

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Anyone who wants to tell me the symbols mean dog and cats… Don’t bother, I had them verified first…

As I am sitting on my couch watching my mom and daughter play the Wii, I feel blessed.

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My mom was and still is a great mom. She was the kind of mom that made me want to be a mom one day and try my best to be like her.

I’m close…. Except I wouldn’t be a kindergarten teacher… I don’t have that kind of patience.

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As I am sitting on my couch looking at them, I am at peace with the cards life dealt me…

“It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.”

Whoever wrote that, got it!

I want what I have and I wake-up thankful to the world for it and go to bed wondering what I did to deserve so much love…

From my divorced parents and their respective spouses, from my husband, from my daughter…

Is my life easy? Hell no!

Would I change anything? … Well, I could always used more money 😉but I wouldn’t trade anyone or change them.

As I am sitting on my couch looking at my mom and daughter… I am happy!

Things Not to Say To A Parent of A Child With Disabilities

A must read!

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I have to say, I fully understand the feeling of speechlessness when speaking to a parent who has a child with a disability. I also have to admit that in my lack of ability to know what to say, I have fallen back into the use of trite, thoughtless responses.

When I read this post, by a lady I do not know, and whose blog I had never read, I heard the heart cry of many parents I have known, over the years, who have been forced to be captive audience to the things we have said to them. The things that, although not intended to be hurtful, they echo in the hearts of those mere human parents for days, weeks, and even years to come.

Adrienne Jones and hubby Brian, live with their family of three sons and one daughter, in Albuquerque, NM. Their youngest child, Carter, lives with…

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