Mafe Maria: A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz
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The “Romper Room” is Joaquin’s Son-Rise playroom. I still remember how hard it was to do focused therapy throughout the house before having this room ready… Exhausting! Constantly losing Joaquin to the 1000 distractions that the whole house offers to a little boy with a short attention span, and then having to follow him everywhere [...]
For any of you who may have bumped into a FAT RED warning message when visiting this web site, or who may have seen a “this web site could harm your computer” message from Google search results… Fear no more. I have spent numerous hours this weekend repairing all the damage that a mass hacker [...]
I’ve just received my rental car for the week. After placing my bag in the trunk and contemplating all the little ways how this cheap rental is not as nice as our family car, I pull out the map package I’ve printed earlier charting the route to the Option Institute. The number of steps is [...]
I wish I had done these type of summaries more often… Recently, trying to put together Joaquin’s full developmental history for the psychologist working on his evaluation, I realized how valuable it was to have the few posts I wrote, along with some of the little stories I’ve shared on flickr. Now that things have [...]
First of all, I am so thankful and touched by all the thoughtful and warm messages I’ve received since my last post. I also appreciate so much your explicit request to keep writing and share our journey and experiences. I’m happy you asked, because I realize that the road we’ve taken is surprisingly not very [...]
You can’t imagine how many times I’ve sat down to write this first post during all these weeks of silence. Some times I’ve failed because there’s so much to tell. Other times I’ve failed because I’m in the wrong mood to write it. The rest of the times I’ve failed because I’m afraid of labeling [...]
After several resolutions that never stuck enough to make a difference, early this year, Joey finally made a personal commitment to lose weight. People ask me if I was the one that pushed him, and the answer is no; many years ago I did try to persuade him, but of course it didn’t work. As [...]
Bollo’s latest hobby is to type on my computer. He selects a key, presses it, and says out loud the name of the corresponding character. Letters and numbers used to be fun, but he’s now totally into three new characters: guion (-), igual (=), and his favorite ever: slash (/). Check out the pride in [...]
If I have ever been able to get nice photos of Joaquin wearing my handmade products for kids, those days are starting to fade surely, and not very slowly. These days, now that we walk, run, roll, play, and have an agenda of our own, every time I pull out the camera and aim it [...]
The last time I wrote (feels like a year ago), I happily reported that I had finished my kids’ size chart and was starting to create standardized patterns for my “line” of shirts… OH MY GOD!… How I underestimated the effort and scope creep ahead of me… What hit me since then was a wave [...]
For all of those who may be sore (or wondering if I’m still alive) because I have not returned their emails or have replied with one–liners, because I have not checked their Facebook updates, and I’ve kept ignoring requests to chat… I have a very good excuse: I’m working. Well… not working–working. But at least [...]
It’s that time of life again when the 24mth Naartjie hoodie that looked perfect last week, suddenly wraps Joaquin’s belly like a tight (and short) hug. Also recently, Don Joaquin has decided that there’s nothing more disgusting in life than a cotton button–up shirt. Knits only! — he seems to demand. Is this an indication [...]
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