Jennifer Briggs

We have had many amazing moments this week. The last night that Mom-Mom and Pop-Pop were visiting, they played with the girls and Carl with toy cars that can zoom forward if you first drive them backward. I was at Zumba, but apparently Sarah’s involvement was focused and relational, so that everyone was really playing… Read more »

One of our volunteers, N., has felt like Sarah is clearer each week in her communication, both in terms of pronunciation and also in terms of her thoughts. Awesome! There are some words where Sarah loses her clarity because she gets so excited. I often request that she slow down a tiny bit so we… Read more »

I have been feeling much better compared to last week! Thank you for the well-wishes. My headaches aren’t gone but sometimes I get two nights off in a row and feel like a normal person. This week, Carl and I had SR sessions that were totally awesome in terms of engaged play combined with practicing… Read more »

This week seems like it contained years. I feel like I have been through the wringer. My headaches got much worse in their severity and duration. I decided I could no longer continue without medication so I have started on meds and I think they are already helping lessen the severity, though I have yet… Read more »

We have two new volunteers! It is interesting how they seem to come in waves. For a long time I had no one expressing interest and then I had two within a day of each other not only express interest but come for their initial meeting and begin their training. I think I tend to… Read more »

Flint is doing much better! He is still old and he still has cancer, but he no longer seems to be at death’s door. Last night he even got up on his cat perch in our bedroom for the first time in over a week. Thank you all for your good thoughts. Overall I’ve been… Read more »

We just had a lovely visit with Grammy and Granddad. Sarah spent almost the entire visit glued to Granddad. In the past this used to mostly involve chin presses to his forehead and buttoning and unbuttoning his shirt (great from an OT perspective of fine motor skills). For this visit Sarah started doing a lot… Read more »

I’ve been thinking about pretending. The girls recently walked around the block riding small broomsticks. Amy started making monkey sounds and saying she was a monkey. Sarah heard this and started doing the same thing. At other times Amy says she is a cat. How easily and often kids pretend! Adults do too, I think,… Read more »

Sarah did an amazing job entering her preschool class last Wednesday. She galloped in easily and independently hung her coat and backpack on her hook. Then she galloped to put her name in the name jar. One of Sarah’s favorite poems has a line about “baby fingers stir stewed pear” so I made pear sauce…. Read more »

We have had Grandma and Grandpa in town and it has been lovely. I love having lots of family around! Grandma gave me sewing lessons and supervised the creation of a new pair of snail pants for Sarah. These new pants will not fall apart every time they go through the wash. Sarah helped with… Read more »