Category Archives: Striderling

Making Life Easier with A Special Needs Child, Pt. 1

By TheHeadGirl | Published: June 15, 2012

The Striderling will soon be nineteen months old… which means we’ve gone through approximately a year and a half of regular therapy sessions (both in home and out) and specialist doctor appointments at a children’s hospital ninety minutes from home. Add to this a pregnancy, then a sweet baby girl, and a husband who works […]

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Good News, Bad News, Good News….

By Headmistress | Published: May 22, 2012

So at the Striderling’s most recent evaluation, everybody decided it was a reasonable and doable goal to get him weaned from the g-tube by the end of summer. He eats like a champ, it’s liquids he struggles with.  He does okay with a yogurt drink and a straw, but has trouble with milk, formula, or […]

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Touch Your Toes

By Headmistress | Published: March 13, 2012

The HG is a fairly athletic girl. She’s a decent volleyball player, and she’s a fanatic about exercising every single day, usually with a Leslie Sansone, but sometimes with the Wii Fit at Granny Tea’s house. However, for some reason, she is not a very limber girl. We were surprised to discover that she cannot […]

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Winter Wonderland from my Window

By Headmistress | Published: December 27, 2011

Yesterday we had our Christmas with all the Progeny still at home plus the married kids and grandbabies here. It was unseasonably warm for Christmas here- in fact, the grass is still green in many parts of the county. Or was. Today, I woke up, rolled over- and here’s what I saw out my window: […]

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All together, now:

By Headmistress | Published: December 24, 2011

Aaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!! Striderling, I hope, is whispering to his baby sister that she should not come until the Tuesday after Christmas.

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