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Meltdown life. Toddlerhood is already a bucket of fun. Living with the real-life equivalent of a Sour Patch Kid. Athena is like living with an extreme version. In the last 18m we have had to learn how to decipher the difference between a "normal toddler tantrum," and "I am overwhelmed and need help." One of… Continue reading Life with Athena Part III

It has been a slug of a process but I'm finally getting the rest of my various unit plans and curriculum here. Everything is a digital download. All curriculum are written for PDE State Standards. They have also all been taught to real students. Currently, I have full units bulked together. That means instead of… Continue reading New Curriculum!

If you didn't read the first part of this series, I definitely recommend going back and reading Life with Athena. There's a good chance this post won't make much sense without it. Figuring out *most* of the pieces of Athena's sensory puzzle allowed her brain to relax and start learning language. She was going to… Continue reading Life with Athena, Part II

Chatting with a friend who happens to have been a behavioral therapist for children, she said something along the lines of, "and your blog is going to be such a great resource and encouragement for other parents who have gone through or are going through the same thing!" Then I realized that I actually don't… Continue reading Life with Athena

Like having a favorite stove burner, another sign of adulthood may be having a favorite set of sheets. I think Ethan and I got this set of sheets sometime our first year of marriage. They are Nate Berkus from Target and we love them. Of all of our sheets, they are our favorite. A few… Continue reading Sheet Soak