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A Special Voice – The Power of a Single Word

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Catita Tx — 14 Comments

Many of you are aware that my daughter is autistic. Her vocabulary is extremely limited; she has developmental delays. Like any person she has her good days and not so good days. The challenge she faces every day is that…

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Family

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Catita Tx — 21 Comments

This week’s Weekly Writing Challenge is “Family.” After much thought I decided it’s important to express what’s taken place in the past few weeks with my own little family. The center focus was our Mija. A little over a year…

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Long Day – Glad to be Home

Posted on August 9, 2013 by Catita Tx — 12 Comments

As I mentioned in my last post, our daughter had her tonsils removed this past Tuesday. As family is not close by I took a few moments to recount the event, Thank-you, everyone for your kind thoughts, prayers and support!…

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Standing Watch – She is Resting

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Catita Tx — 17 Comments

Hello family and friends. Yesterday was a very long day. My daughter had her tonsils removed. She is doing very well. I’ll share more later this week; today seems to be a day for all of us to rest! Fortunately,…

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Easter 2013 –Through Our Daughter’s Eyes

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Catita Tx — 17 Comments

Last Sunday, the lesson in my daughter’s Special Needs Faith Class was Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter. I couldn’t have expressed it better… May you have a blessed and peaceful Easter. Alleluia!

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Acts of Love and Kindness

Posted on February 17, 2013 by Catita Tx — 19 Comments

As some of you know, my daughter attends a class on Sunday in which a special education teacher and several aides teach a faith formation class for children with special needs. It is a model program that is beginning to…

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Another Glimpse into Her World and Ours

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Catita Tx — 23 Comments

In my last post my husband and I shared our thoughts on our daughter and her many limits. The replies we received amazed us. Many of them left me thoughtful. I realized I still had a lot to express, so…

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Happy Birthday to Our Special (Needs) Daughter

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Catita Tx — 43 Comments

Hello everyone, Today’s post is written by my husband, Al. He posted this on Facebook a few days ago for our daughter’s birthday. I made just a few minor edits and added photos. We received replies that surprised in many…

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Joining the Winner’s Circle!

Posted on December 2, 2012 by Catita Tx — 32 Comments

Hi everybody! In my post Stories, Photographs and the Challenge to Write I stated I was going to step up to the National Novel Writing Month challenge to write a 50,000 word novel during the month of November. Well, it’s December…

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Stories, Photographs and the Challenge to Write

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Catita Tx — 26 Comments

Island Traveler has posted another great theme for the Weekly Image of Life: Stories and Photographs. His timing is perfect! I’ve been writing my blog for fourteen months. If you follow along you know that I often write stories about…