by Jolene Philo | Nov 18, 2024 | Caregiving, Challenges, Living Life Daily
Enjoying the holidays with a food allergy sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? After all, eating together is an integral component of the holiday season. I looked forward to making our traditional holiday foods until I was diagnosed with a dairy allergy in 2012. What...
by datc3 | Jul 29, 2024 | Caregiving, Challenges, Down syndrome, Hope, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting
My daughter takes a seat in the dark beautician’s chair. She looks down as the black cape is secured around her neck. The hairdresser asks, “What do you want done to your hair today?” My daughter smiles in the mirror as she listens to the beautician, but...
by datc3 | Jul 15, 2024 | Caregiving, Challenges, Hope, Living Life Daily, Marriage, Scripture, Special Needs Parenting
You can pour from an empty cup. Some will differ with me. I will stick to it because I have lived it and perhaps YOU have as well.What do we do with an empty cup? We fill it when we need to drink from it. It’s upon need.Like the tension on a piece of elastic, we can...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Oct 16, 2023 | Caregiving, Challenges, Living Life Daily, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
In My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers said, “It’s easy to say, ‘Fret not,’ but a very different thing to have such a disposition that you find yourself able not to fret. It sounds so easy to talk about…‘waiting patiently for Him’ until the nest is upset—until...
by Jolene Philo | Jun 26, 2023 | Caregiving, Challenges
This is the final segment of a five-part series on empowering children with disabilities written by Jolene Philo. – EditorEmpowering kids with disabilities isn’t always a serious business. The previous posts in this series about meeting our kids’ basic...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | May 15, 2023 | Caregiving, Challenges, Marriage
None of us will parent perfectly—so let’s take that pressure off our shoulders! But, we will always teach our children, whether we model life indirectly, as they watch and then model us, or teach directly through instruction.Parents all desire to teach their children...
