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...

“Children with disabilities are amongst the world’s most marginalized and excluded children.” ---World Health Organization, World Bank, 20...

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

Yea, though I battle through the valley of the shadow of IEP season, I shall fear not using the Procedural Safeguards: for the law art with ...

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...

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...

The wound that never fully heals, sighs as I dared to lay down its protective armor hoping for a moment’s breath without t...

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...

The day after Superstorm Sandy, the Kerstings who did not lose power, had us over for dinner, hot showers, recharging computers and baking c...

continued from Part 2 HERE The weather teased that summer would surely stretch on, yet it slipped through our fingers with the outgoing t...