The PTO put on our school's first Trunk or Treat on this fine October evening.  For those unfamiliar, this is an event where trunks ar...

October is my favorite month of the year for many reasons; Halloween, pumpkin flavored everything, football, apples and cider, a chill in th...

Yesterday Sophie went to her friend E’s “Birthday Party in Paris!”   I think the scarf and blue stripes fit the theme quite well.  Soph ac...

Team Sophie rocked our 7th year of participating in the Buddy Walk for Down syndrome awareness.  To be honest, I wasn’t sure we would be doi...

Sometimes kids don’t eat.  I’m not referring to picky eaters who hate lima beans. (Doesn’t everyone?)  I’m talking about kids that for one r...

The following is the text of the Delaware County Right to Education Task Force nomination for a Making a Difference Award that I submitted...

Our son Alexander is eight years old and he was just diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome.  Many shorten it to Asperger’s or AS.  Read about i...

Please enjoy this wonderful video and share, share, share! "Be The One" {Music Video} from Life Stage Films on Vimeo .

This is Sophie’s first professional photo with her daddy holding her.  It was inspired by the cover photo of a book that was very importa...

This morning I introduced Sophie to her kindergarten Sunday school class.  I explained that she has Down syndrome, that it isn’t anything to...

Where to begin?  I am blessed to have just returned from the 3 day annual state conference put on by the PA Department of Ed - Bureau of Spe...

Here is another great piece on the Spread the Word to End the Word Campaign by Lawrence Downes in The New York Times, March 2, 2013.  Just t...

My crush on this man only deepens.  The campaign to Spread the Word to End the Word is coming up on March 6th.  Watch the embedded clip belo...

Meet our good buddies Nancy and little Alex.  I met Nancy within the first couple of weeks of moving out here and we have become great frien...

Sophie was sent home from school early on Monday.  She had put her head down at lunch and cried, refusing to eat.  She had a low grade fever...

To get us excited for our visit to the pumpkin patch, we watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown for the first time this year and in the mo...