Accept It. You Are Beautiful.

The moment I knew I was going to be a mom to a girl, I told myself I would raise her in a way she would respect herself more than I did when I grew up. I want her to celebrate being herself no matter what. When we discovered she had one hand, I realized…

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Jumping into the blog world

When you are a parent, you can feel alone even when there are all kinds of parents around you. There are hundreds of parenting books out there but in the end, it’s up to you to figure it all out. I’ve spent years figuring it out while blogging about it along the way. I started…

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Special connections

There’s something about being the parent of a child who has differences in any way that makes you feel connected to other parents. That’s why I want to share this special video about a little boy named Bennett. Bennett’s mom, Breck, went to school where I teach. We have mutual friends but I never really…

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Jordan's not impressed, but I am

Every time we show Jordan video of a person doing something cool with a limb difference, Jordan just does not react much. I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again. We’ve given Jordan access to so many awesome and able limb different people, she doesn’t expect anything less than awesome. So when Randy found…

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