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 […]
I Love You, Daddy!
A Visible Disability
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 […]
A Hot Fudge Sundae Kind of Day
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 […]
Joy Came in the Evening
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 […]
Lagging Social Life
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 […]
You Are Special
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 […]
Friends We Marry
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, […]
Law & Order and the R-Word
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 […]
Be Positive and Pray
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 […]
Olivia’s Speech
May 27, 2011 I am cheating on my blog today. I had a topic in mind but it has been displaced because I believe as many people as possible should hear Olivias’s speech. Warning: my opinion is biased. I met […]