Jennifer Briggs

When Sarah and I are having hard times multiple times a day for days in a row, it is hard to remember anything different. I think we are finally emerging from our extra hard time. Monday was a loooong day without enough planned and without help. Tuesday I worked a lot so that was easier…. Read more »

We had wonderful visits with some friends in Seattle before the girls and I flew home on Tuesday. The hardest parts of Tuesday were getting Sarah up in the morning and arriving at home. The airports and flights went extremely easily, aided by donuts, chocolate, and ipods. When we got home, Sarah desperately wanted cargo… Read more »

We have been in Leavenworth, WA for a wedding. Thanks to food and iPods, the flights went easily, if sometimes messily. For the first flight, Carl had been given seat far away from the girls and me, because our flight plans to get home are different. He gave that seat to me!! If that’s not… Read more »

Two milestones happened so easily and so “normally” this week that I am simultaneously almost moved to tears and almost not noticing that they happened. On Monday Sarah had a camp friend over for a play date. This is the first real play date of Sarah and a new friend (if you don’t count the… Read more »

Sarah and Amy attended new (for them) camps this past week. Amy’s continues for two more weeks, but Sarah’s was just the one week. They both loved their time. There were only two campers at Sarah’s camp and they share a birthday, just one year apart. To make transportation and timing easier for the morning… Read more »

We just got back from a wonderful week visiting family in the Philadelphia area. We saw Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop, Grammy and Granddad, uncles, aunts, and cousins galore. We enjoyed the Morris Arboretum, The Please Touch Museum, two playgrounds, a scavenger hunt, and the beach (although if you are from Philly you would say that we… Read more »

The past few days have felt challenging. Sarah had 3 nights this week of staying up until 10 or 11pm, which meant I was also up later than usual. I don’t know that anything else on Sarah’s side actually changed, but I have had less patience in response to her screaming, whining, and not listening…. Read more »

Please send socks! I have none left. Throughout the day last Sunday, the girls knocked my socks off repeatedly. It was just the girls and me all day, but they hardly interacted with me at all, and there was rarely a need to intervene. I bought a lined dry-erase board for Sarah, just like the… Read more »

Amy is now a rising third-grader. This is the first time we have a third grader in the house since Sarah skipped third grade to make it possible for her to finish high school, given how much I adjusted her schooling situation in the early years (she was in preschool through age 8 because that… Read more »

Sarah is done with fourth grade. Her last week was a strange mix of days off and days of school. Tuesday and Thursday were in-service days (one for her school and one for her particular program). Friday she had school but dismissal was at 10am. As summer has been approaching, I’ve been looking forward to… Read more »