Finding Ninee » Sharing our parenting and special needs stories with heart and humor.

Category Archives: Parenting

Parenting posts that include the touching, the embarrassing, the annoying, the typical, the atypical, the whatever. You just have to be a parent to get these.

Today is Thursday. Today is Thursday. I mention this because today is also a day that I thought was a Wednesday that feels like a Friday. For regular folks, I suppose a day when you think it’s Wednesday but feels like Friday would make it easier to understand that it really and truly is an […]

View full post »

Turns out, there are a lot of Really Good Words. There are words so powerful and complex that they become short poems when spoken out loud. Others words are light and lyrical. Choosing a word of the year provides you with endless options to grow, to be, to explore. I thought a lot about choosing […]

View full post »

I suppose it’s possible for somebody to change her viewpoint without leaving home or meeting new people, but it’d be difficult. Maybe if she reads thousands and thousands of essays and articles with a true desire to learn and become more, she’d be able to make it happen.  But whoah, it’d be hard.   Experiences and […]

View full post »

People say dogs have no sense of time. I search my memories for proof of this but right now, I think only of our current dog, Nugget. She’s at home in her crate. Today, we have human-only places to be.   “She can hold it,” I reply, in response to questions about her bladder and bowels. […]

View full post »

As a kid, Thanksgiving meant driving from Denver to Colorado Springs to gather with my mom’s family or my dad’s brother’s family. I can’t remember whether we ever saw them both on the same day, but suppose we must have.  Although I can’t tell you the year, I remember the day I didn’t eat turkey. […]

View full post »

« Older posts Newer posts »

N e v e r   m i s s   a   n e w   p o s t !