Yesterday E.B. and I had to make a quick stop at the Dollar General store to buy some cat food. We stop in there at least once a week and E.B. almost always scores himself a little, inexpensive toy. It’s my little way of saying thank you to him for behaving long enough for me…

I was a nervous wreck when E.B. started preschool this year. He was newly diagnosed with Sensory Processing Disorder and I feared his teacher wouldn’t understand, the school might not understand, and that I’d probably be receiving phone calls on a daily basis saying, “Please come get your child because he is out of control,…

E.B. and I recently had the opportunity to check out two great books by children’s author Leslie Patricelli. We received Higher, Higher and Baby Happy, Baby Sad. We were really impressed with Higher, Higher and it’s vibrant illustrations. Patricelli’s books offer up very simplistic writing on a child’s level, but as a former librarian I…