We have a winner for Benny’s Mothers Day giveaway! The winner is…Marilyn Erb! I can’t think of anyone more deserving of a little extra! Marilyn is a busy mom of 5, the youngest of whom are the most beautiful ten-month-old twin girls. Congratulations, Marilyn! I will be by sometime this week with your prize! Stay tuned for the next giveaway in July! Benny will celebrate his 15th birthday on July 8 and will be hosting something special for my subscribers! See you then!
Good Morning! Today is a good day for a giveaway! As a thank you to all my subscribers and in honor of all mother hearts everywhere, I will be hosting a giveaway from my shop! Featured in this delightful package is a 12 x 12 handpainted wall hanging, Today is a Good Day for a Good Day, a succulent plant wrapped in burlap (no, the plant is not live!), and a “For The Love of Benny” book! How to enter. To win, subscribe to my blog. Go to the subscribe button on the right side of my page and fill in your email. ...
Who is Blaze? Blaze is a horse Benny met a while back on a therapy exercise. The following is a story I wrote as through Benny’s eyes and heart about this harmonious experience on top a horse! Although Benny’s face is turned away in the picture, I love the expressions on everyone else’s faces! Benny was so wild and boisterously laughing that he had us all laughing with him. This is the way of special needs children. This ability to make others happy is a part of their beautiful life! My name is Benjamin, but everyone calls me Benny. “Come,...
The picture above is of our Benny’s signature shiver. (Also, note the amazing crop of hair! 🙂 ) He does this shiver in anticipation of just about everything in life. It has caused me to acquire ants in my pants and to jump up and down on the inside with pent up energy when I am trying to move on with my day, and he takes his good old time to shiver. Shame on me. Every single time he gets a glass of milk he shivers. Whenever he glimpses a tube feed coming; shiver. Oh boy, a bath; biggest shiver...
It was a rainy, spring Sunday afternoon. Let me make myself clear. This rain was the opposite of a drizzle, a mist, a shower or a gentle pitter patter on the roof. It was more like there was a cloudburst in the heavens, sending torrents of wet stuff in heavy splotches of water drops the size of peas. The water gushing through our creek was powerful in its furious hurry to move along down the hill into the lowest parts of the dense woods. But this was the day the Lord had made, and since it was spring and we...
I’m pretty sure that if you’re a special needs mom, you already know it. And you don’t need to read this to figure it out! But just in case, here it comes. This started out as a Facebook post. But then about ten sentences into writing, I came to the brilliant conclusion to not write a whole chapter on Facebook. Because sometimes when I hit the read more button on a post and it is as long as Santa’s naughty list, and in order to read the whole thing I would need a bowl of popcorn, I just keep on...
What if God had created special needs kids without unconditional love?I have been pondering this question all week as I have been going about the daily care of Benny.What if every morning when Benny insists on a bubble bath at 5:30 am, he would complain. What if he would yell that the water isn’t the correct temperature, or that there are too many bubbles. Not enough bubbles? What if he wouldn’t laugh and kick with pure glee all those mornings, letting us know that there is joy in a bubble bath at this unearthly hour?What if Benny wouldn’t get ultimate...
Dear mom of a special needs child, Good Monday morning as you begin yet another week caring for a most precious child! I see you there, coming away from the weekend. I see a shadow of discontent momentarily come across your eyes as you shove that bolus feed through your child’s feeding tube. I see how it appears that other’s lives keep right on going and you get left behind and choking from the clouds of dust billowing from their heels. I get it. Perhaps you heard of others reaching out to that person you would love to minister to as...
19 years ago today, my heart was shattered into a million tiny pieces. I allowed my mind to travel back in time to that unbelievable moment when we found out that our baby had already died just prior to birth. I remembered the stillness of the moment right after birth and how even along with great sorrow there was an unexplainable joy as well. Not a joyful shout of praise, but a quiet reverence and an overwhelming feeling of being loved by God. Our little Sara never breathed even one tiny breath on this earth. She went straight into the...
Benny Is My Alarm Clock. This morning, before the crack of dawn, in advance of any smiling abilities on my part, our Benny was up. I mean, whoever heard of not being in the tub at 5:30 a.m. splashing in the bath water his daddy cheerfully (true story, cheerfully) fixed for him. I noticed that Benny seemed extra boisterous, as a glob of water landed squarely on my nice warm fuzzy socks. My fuzzy socks were not yet awake and did not appreciate being so rudely awakened. I grabbed a bottle of Young Living Lavender Oil and landed a few...
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