Adopting Special Needs

Hope never made it to summer school. She raged all day. I have my first black eye and lots of new bruises, but we survived until 6 pm, when ...

Today was the last day of our Attachment Intensive. It was also the first day that Hope did not melt down before we even got to the off...

Intensive Day Seven was reserved for sibling work. GB, the Dad, and I spent the morning with the AT. The session focused a lot on th...

The payback for yesterday continued to be intense. The first hour of the session consisted of me restraining Hope. An hour. I was a stinky, ...

Although Day Five started off exactly as Day Four, it quickly became obvious that it was going to be much more difficult for Hope. The two A...

Last night, the payback was worse than I had expected. Thanks to my great friend and Trauma Mama from http://mommyneedstherapy.blogspot.com ...

Hope gave all her pre-therapy garbage to me this morning. I expected it and did not get physically hurt. Today's goal was to make a ti...

Today The Dad and I  spent from 9 am to  4:40 with the attachment therapist. She is really very good and even though her questions were very...

We got into Philly late last night- much later than we planned. I immediately gave Hope her meds. I told both girls to get PJs on. Hope told...

This is it. I have some new bruises from Hope last night, but today both girls are attending the first day of summer school. I have lists of...

Three days left until Hope's Intensive. The Dad left with everybody at 9 am this morning to go to Six Flags and I stayed home. Still res...

Four days left until Hope's intensive. Yesterday was not good with Hope. The Dad did not want to put her in respite last night, so she i...

We are doing the Happy Dance! Our Attachment Intensive is scheduled for July 10th  through July 19. I am hopeful, grateful, and overwhe...