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Kristi Rieger Campbell's passion is writing and drawing stupid-looking pictures for her blog, Finding Ninee. It began with a memoir about her special-needs son Tucker, abandoned when she read that a publisher would rather shave a cat than read another memoir. Kristi writes for a variety of parenting websites including Huffington Post Parents, has been published in several popular anthologies, received 2014 BlogHer's Voice of the Year People's Choice Award, and was a proud cast member of the DC Listen to Your Mother show. Find her on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

For you crafty types out there, I thought I’d share one of the artwork projects Tucker brought home from school.  Look how adorable this bus made from an egg carton is! Personally, I would have paid a little more attention to my scissor-accuracy and not left those unsightly tabs of white paper sticking out from […]

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Me:  “Tucker, what’s behind your back, buddy?  Did you find a cookie?” (uh oh, where could he have found a cookie?  I thought we were out.  This might not be good because I’m pretty sure there wasn’t one out on the counter or on the table…) Tucker:   Me:  “Ok.  We’ll have to get some […]

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Tucker obviously inherited his navigational abilities from a distant relative.  While I fully admit to being utterly inept at knowing where we are and which direction is the best choice for getting un-lost, hubby thinks his navigational skills are top-notch.  They’re not.  Don’t tell him though.  He’s quite proud of the fact that they’re better […]

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Thankfully, war and its very concept is completely foreign to me.  I have never lived in a country where I’ve had to question my basic rights as a woman.  Or as a person.  I live in a country, as do many of us, where we get to complain about taxes, about our government, and about […]

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Rather than writing a lengthy post, I’ll just say that no matter what ups and downs life brings Tucker, I hope that he’s able – at every age – to find the pure joy that he does at this age from being tickled. Find something to make you laugh today.  That’s what we’re going to […]

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Although my parents are unwilling to confirm it, I know that a gigantic bug with an especially painful bite terrorized and then attacked me when I was a defenseless baby. It altered my psyche and I’m still reeling.  Because I was like, a baby, I wasn’t able to identify the species.  So now, for safety […]

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