Jennifer Briggs

Woohooo! We got 12hrs and 20 min this week! And it was a week where we were traveling at the beginning! A large part of our hours are due to M. being with us for the Outreach. It was absolutely amazing! So helpful!! I learned so much from the Start-Up last summer but there were… Read more »

This update is coming to you later than usual in the week because we were away over the weekend visiting Carl’s family in MN. Given the travel and other hiccups in the schedule I am pleased that we got 6 1/2 hrs of SR time, including a tiny bit in MN. The girls traveled quite… Read more »

This week we got 10hrs 5min. I had a consultation on Wed with M., a Son-Rise expert, and she had some good ideas that I will implement in terms of potty training. I have scheduled an Outreach with M. for mid-April. An Outreach is where M. will come to our house for 3 days and… Read more »

We had our biggest week yet! 12 hours!!!!!!!!!! I know I say this a lot, but I am feeling ever so grateful for my lovely volunteers both in the playroom and with Amy. I am also deeply grateful for the wonderful team of school teachers and therapists and for the out-of-school therapists. We have such… Read more »

Amazingly enough we got 6hrs and 15min this past week. This was a week that included all of us being sick in various ways at various times, culminating in Sarah being hospitalized on Thursday with pneumonia. Luckily Carl was able to meet us at the ER (at the exact moment we pulled into the parking… Read more »

This week we got a record 11hrs and 10 min!!! I have now increased my goal to being 11 hours and to gradually build up to 15 and then over the summer hit 20-30. With kindergarten on the horizon I really want Sarah to be as ready and as flourishing as she can be. I… Read more »

This week we got 10 hours of official Sarah-Rise time. While it influences interactions throughout our day, Carl and I are both aware of a different kind of focus and attentiveness that we have when we are doing official time, whether or not it is in the SR room or elsewhere, with Amy or without…. Read more »

This week we got 10hrs and 20min, which includes some time with her Grammy and Granddad! Highlights of the week include my dancing around to the Killers while making dinner only to look over and see Sarah dancing while sitting in her high chair. I realize that it is getting hard to remember when Sarah… Read more »

This week we got 8hrs and 50min. We had a great moment playing with matching squares. Normally Sarah just likes to play with them bc of the texture and feel of the multiple squares and isn’t too interested in matching them, to put it mildly. This week she had increased attention and flexibility and twice… Read more »

We had a good week despite lower hours than some other weeks. We got 6 hrs and 40 min in a week that had an eye doctor’s appointment that took 2 hours (plus 2 hrs driving – eyes are fine) and and a dentist appointment (teeth are fine). Sarah did remarkably well with both appointments,… Read more »