June 20, 2011 Saturday I had the great privilege and honor of spending the morning with parents of babies and toddlers with Down syndrome. It was the Down Syndrome Guild of Greater Kansas City’s quarterly new parent breakfast and we […]
June 19, 2011 Just a brief Happy Father’s Day to my two favorite daddies: My daddy Hershel Barnett and Rachel’s Daddy, my husband Jonathan Mast. Both are great dads in very different ways. My dad always believed in me. I […]
June 17, 2011 Just when I was unsure what I would write about, British Airways comes to my rescue! If reports are correct, a British Airways employee told the mother of a 12-year-old girl with Down syndrome she could not […]
June 15, 2011 Rachel’s Ongoing Birthday Celebration kicked off with a sleepover Friday night with 10 girls. Ten giggly girls.They went to bed about 3:00 am. I went to bed at 2:45 am. In my former life, I could stay […]
June 13, 2011 Happy 12th Birthday Rachel Mast! Twelve years ago tonight at 8:40 pm Rachel Mast announced her arrival to planet earth with a healthy set of lungs! Beautiful from the moment I saw you and held you with those […]
June 10, 2011 No time for blogging today because we have a birthday sleepover with nine girls tonight! A man once tried to shame me into using a product he declared would improve Rachel’s acadmeic, physical and social life. He […]
June 8, 2011 As the parent of a child with an intellectual disability, a child with special needs, some of of my least favorite words are, “God chooses special parents for special children. You are so special.” Gag! In […]
June 6, 2011 When you get married, you marry family members and you marry into friends. Like family, there are usually a few of the friends that come with the marriage that you love and others that may not be, […]
May 31, 2011 I am a Law & Order junkie. I love it. I watchedthe original most the years it aired and I like all the spin-offs too! Bobby Goren is my all-time favorite character. Yesterday, I was watching an […]
May 30, 2011 Yesterday, we went to Joplin. It is a couple of hours from Kansas City. “No,” I told the cashier at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Nevada, “we aren’t going to Joplin to see President Obama. We are going […]