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Living with Fragile X Syndrome

Back to the beach.

Umma | August 30, 2008

Having grown up in a seaside town the beach was always just there.  You could smell the ocean in the breeze.  Life just seemed to naturally revolve around it.  When I was little I spent day after day with my siblings, our mom and friends in the sun, running up and down the beach, searching [...]

Stay-cation, now with more STAY!

Umma | August 28, 2008

Ugh, car repairs are expensive, stressful and put a serious crimp in vacation plans.  The only good news about this is that we’ve narrowed the repairs down to 1/4 of what the dealer told us had to be done (thank goodness for dads and BFFs who know cars and know when someone is trying to [...]

In happier news…

Umma | August 26, 2008

we planned  a trip with Cupcake and her mom today.  We all went to Davis’ Farmland which was a ton of fun.  Monkey was a huge fan of all the different goats.  The farm specializes in endangered and heritage farm animals so there were some very unique animals there.  Umma wanted to bring home one [...]

Party = failure

Umma | August 24, 2008

We were invited to the 5th birthday party of one of Monkey’s former classmates yesterday.  Most of the kids at the party were former classmates.  Monkey’s teacher was there as well.  It all started promising.  Monkey was excited to see his friends and he ran around and played with them.  His teacher commented on all [...]

Our first ever staycation.

Umma | August 23, 2008

I’ve taken the next week off from work so that Monkey, Duhdee and I can just *relax.*  Duhdee and I enjoyed out weekend to vegetate so much we decided it was a fine way to spend a week with Monkey.  We have plans to visit a local farm one day and I think we’ll take [...]