Jenny Dombroski
Separate But Equal Isn’t a Thing | Having a Child on the Spectrum
What’s one of the hardest things about having a child on the spectrum? I tear up at this question every time. The deep and heated anger wells up in the pit of my stomach....
Confidence Matters – Raising a strong son on the spectrum
“Mom! Those boys keep calling Sam a baby. They said he talks like one.” My daughter is running up to me in tears shouting this from the roof tops. I go to meet her...
Coronavirus Highlights the Need for Educational Model Update
How Coronavirus Highlights the Need for Educational Model Update
Coronavirus virus is still in big swing here at home. It’s demands that life change as we know it are exhausting and mentally draining. Informational shifts...
Hair Loss, Fatigue, or Weight Gain? | National Thyroid Awareness Month
I would’ve scrolled passed this thyroid article with ease a few years back. Taking in the general title and thinking it wasn’t applicable, sending the information away. It sounds like something my mother would...
You can’t scare us, 2021!
2020 is about to exit the building. Praise Jesus! This year has been so full of ups and downs that it feels like we’ve been walking on wobbly roads since March. You can’t scare...
We have to love each other better … regardless of who wins the election
We have to love each other better ... regardless of who wins the election. Remember when we started in school?
Along with clean, crisp clothes and a palpable excitement as we took a pivotal step,...
Go vote, little eyes are watching. Why voting matters now more than ever!
This week, voting opened up for us and we took our afternoon to go to the polls. I’ve taken my daughter with me to vote since I can remember. One year she talked a...
Show some love: ways to help Hurricane Laura evacuees
Hurricane Laura shredded the Texas and Louisiana border and the devastation is far reaching. Bus loads of evacuees are making the trip to Austin. Homes are gone forever, people are displaced, momentos are gone....forever.
Hurricane...
I am thankful for what my son with autism has taught me
Through a blur of frustration and tears, I complained to my mom about all the therapy my son was doing. The therapy we have been doing since he was 18 months old. I am...
How to not be a “coronavirus jerk” during the pandemic
As school is starting and summer is closing, I’m confronted with a very real and very ugly truth. I am a coronavirus jerk / quarantine jerk. There. I said it.
At the beginning, I did...