Jennifer Briggs

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 »

Carl noticed upon his return from a trip that Sarah seemed more like she was trying to tell him things and to describe what she saw more than before. She had gotten her shirt wet while washing her hands and was saying “wat eh”. since she can say water well already I think this was… Read more »

I have been thinking that while the biggest thing we have changed in Sarah’s life is to add Sarah-Rise time, there are also many other people who have been providing lovely support and that I wanted to acknowledge them too. Sarah has a wonderful teacher and assistant teacher at her preschool. And every week Sarah… Read more »

This past week we again totaled 7 hrs and 40 min of official Sarah-Rise time. I had decided that one of our goals would be modeling nodding yes and shaking no, encouraging her to do the same. Monday morning Sarah shook her head “no” after I prompted her that she could say “no” instead of… Read more »