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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.

I wanted to do thankful earlier this weekend, and just couldn’t. Real life happened, and I’m thankful that it did. (one) Because real life? It matters so much more. Most of the time, anyway. This party lets me be thankful even when I’ve messed up Lizzi’s (so thankful for HER as are all of you because […]

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If I had a million dollars, there are a lot of things I would do. Maybe I would be overly generous with it, get more frequent massages, a magical facial to make me look younger and hot, and buy a house that I like more with a cooler, larger, more interesting yard. But right now, […]

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Today’s Our Land Series piece has been contributed by a returning author. She is a kickassawesome blog friend who gets much of what I feel when it comes to searching for a diagnosis. Our kids don’t have an autism diagnosis, but both have special needs. They are also both adorable and amazing. I have been […]

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Didn’t Thanksgiving feel like a long time ago, now that we are week-deep into 2014? It feels like a really long time ago to me. I’ve had a cast since Thanksgiving, and it feels like toolong. Most of the time, we don’t think about the mundane daily tasks that are usually completed using two hands. […]

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Hi Friends! Welcome back to Finish the Sentence Friday! I hope that you each had a magical, relaxing, and memorable-in-the-good-way holiday. Tonight, we’re talking about blogging goals. I have to admit that I don’t have any, and I never have, really. I started blogging because I was scared. Our family, and Tucker’s delays, didn’t fit. Anywhere. So […]

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It’s that wonderful time of year filled with cookies, ribbons, broken childhood ornaments, impossible to assemble toys, and just enough magic and laughter sprinkled throughout to give parents something to hang onto so that we gleefully repeat the whole process each year. While Tucker did break a Frosty the Snowman ornament that had my 1977 […]

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