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Tag Archives: Emily
Tuesdays With Tyler: The Trip to the Big City
On Friday we took Tyler in to New York City for the first time. If you want my take on it, you can go here. This post is about how the trip went for Tyler. We decided to go to … Continue reading
The Day After the Day After
No, I did not survive a nuclear explosion, I just feel like I did. I’m talking about when a chronically ill parent decides they are going to give it their all, usually to do something stupid if not impossibly beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadway, Chronically Ill, chronically ill parent, dinosaurs, Disability, disabled, Emily, Grant, Greenwich Village, housebound, iPhone, Jewish New Year, New York, New York City, nodules, rheumatoid nodules, SoHo, The Museum of Natural History, Tyler, wheelchair
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Fishing Trip and Other Tales
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt 2. A memorable fishing trip. I’ve only been fishing one time so right there that’s pretty memorable. But this isn’t so much about a fishing trip as it is a story from my … Continue reading
Wondering About My Son’s Future
(I read Carry Yourself Back to Me by Deborah Reed as a member of the From Left to Write Book club. I was given a free copy of this book. This post was inspired by the book.) The thing I like … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, anxiety in children, Book club, bullying, bullying in the young child, Carry Yourself Back to Me, Deborah Reed, Emily, From Left to Write, From Left to Write Book Club, Grant, hyper-blinking, Myths About Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, OCD, Pediatric Neurologist, sleeping in bed with your child, ticing, tics, Tourette's, Tourette's symptoms, Tourette's Syndrome, Tyler
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Tuesdays With Tyler: Birthday With Pictures!
Tyler’s fifth birthday (and LAST birthday extravaganza!) was this Saturday and a good time was had by all. I was so scared that I would not get through it. The day before, my fever was 100 degrees before I stopped … Continue reading
For My Son on His 5th Birthday
Well, my darling, you have hit the “big 5!” Today after school we will take you to Toys r Us to pick something out and we are going to have a cake, a small celebration, just the three of us, … Continue reading
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Tagged "good girl", 5th birthday, Birthday, Cars 2, Cartoon Network. Batman, Disability, Emily, fear of dogs, Grant, Halloween, karate, Legos, Lizzie, Looney Tunes, Ninjago, OCD, Phineas and Ferb, Scotty, Spider-Man, The Mickey Mouse Club-House, The Smurfs, Tourette's Syndrome, Toys r Us, Tyler, Winnie the Pooh
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Tyler’s First, First Day
Monday night I could not sleep. It was nothing new really; when I wake up, whether to go to the bathroom or I hear a noise, I often awake in pain, and then I need to take something for the … Continue reading
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Tagged 5th birthday, anxiety, back pack, Birthday, bus, child, children, education, Eeyore, Emily, first day of kindergarten, first day of school, flood watch, Grant, Hurricane Irene, kids, kindergarten, New Jersey, OCD, school, school bus, Tourette's Syndrome, Tyler
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A “Mom Fail” Moment
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. Prompt 1.) A mom fail moment. When my son was born, our cats were already considered senior citizens in the lifespan of the domesticated feline. My cats, Lizzie and Rosie, were nine-years-old and Grant’s cats, Scotty … Continue reading
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Tagged Blommer, Cats, Death, disabled mom, dying, Emily, Father, Freyja and cats and angels, God, Grandpa Joe, Grant, grief, Heaven, hypermobile, life-threatening illnesses, Lizzie, Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop, Mom Fail, mortality, pain, Rosie, Santa Claus, Scotty, Sick, Spanky, The Little Rascals, Tyler
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My Most Recent Awkward Moment
Inspired by Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop. 3). An awkward moment. My husband and I call our awkward moments “Larry David Moments”. Larry David is the billionaire who along with Jerry Seinfeld created Seinfeld (“George” was modeled after him). He also created and … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnostic, anti-semetic, Christians, Conservative Judaism, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Emily, Geoger, Grant, HBO, Jerry Seinfeld, Jew, Jewish, Jewish ethnic background, Jewish holidays, Jewish jokes, Judaism, Larry David, Mama Kat's Writer's Workshop, Romeo and Juliet, Seinfeld, Solomon Schechter Day School, Tyler
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My Name is Emily and I Have a Depressed Son
I have known this for a while, but how much can you write…right? I will not talk about how Tyler has described his depression to me to a ‘T’ without saying “depression”. Let’s just say he told me that he … Continue reading
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Tagged childhood depression, clinical depression, counseling, Curious George, Depression, Disney, Disney channel, Disney Junior, Emily, Grant, Mickey, Mouse, situational depression, The Happiest Place on Earth, The Hot Dog Dance, The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, therapy, Toodles, Tyler
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