by Jolene Philo | Jan 22, 2024 | Rare Diagnosis, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
Raising kids with disabilities comes with its own set of challenges and reasons to be grateful. Because this is EA/TEF Awareness Month and our son was born with EA/TEF, my top ten perks of raising a child with disabilities will be slanted in that direction. Years...
by Evana Sandusky | Jan 15, 2024 | Medically Fragile, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
I went to the office supply store on a mission. I needed to buy my 2024 planners, so I could start filling out the days already booked with appointments. While I was there, I looked for a small pocket calendar to record my daughter’s daily weight. Since July 2023, her...
by Jolene Philo | Dec 27, 2023 | Caregiving, Scripture, Special Needs Parenting
I didn’t want to learn hard caregiving lessons in 2023. Mainly because I’m a big fan of easy. Hard? Not so much. Yet here I am waiting for 2023 to end—believe me, I’m ready to put it behind me—and at the same time embracing the hard lessons I’m about to share with you...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Dec 18, 2023 | Caregiving, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
Just go!Easier said than done.Seeing many of our friends on social media taking trips to Japan, Italy, France, Greece, Egypt, and all around the USA, keeps us ever mindful that our feet are firmly planted in the nation of “caring for special needs”. Not a complaint;...
by Evana Sandusky | Dec 11, 2023 | Caregiving, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
No one on this earth knows how to give better than a mother.As soon as that little one takes occupancy in the womb, the mother gives of her body in ways that are not quite understood until it is experienced. The body changes dramatically over months, never to be quite...
by Joe and Cindi Ferrini | Nov 20, 2023 | Caregiving, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Growth
Oswald Chambers in My Utmost for His Highest shares this, “Joshua 24:15 says Choose you this day who you will serve….but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.’ It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift easily…..The proposition is...
