Disability Etiquette When Meeting Kids With Disabilities and Their Parents
Before having kids with disabilities, I was not aware about my interactions around people with disabilities. When our friends’ daughter was born with Down syndrome, I said some things that were ignorant and showed how little I knew about people with...Surviving the NICU
My middle daughter was a preemie. She was born at 24 weeks. She was born in Ukraine, where she had no mother or father to look after her. Those days in the NICU she fought alone, and and four years after her birth my husband and I flew to a foreign country to bring...
Dear Mom of a Child With a Disability, I Celebrate You
Having a child with a disability can make life different from what other moms of typical children experience. On a day like Mother’s Day, while friends receive cards from their kids, breakfast in bed as a result of the loving attempt from little chefs, and homemade...
We Interviewed the Typical Siblings, This Is What They Had to Say
The typical siblings have unique life experiences because of having a brother or sister with a disability. In today’s podcast for Unexceptional Moms we interviewed our kids, who are the typical siblings. they range in age from 11 to 17 and have different...
Why Women’s Conferences Need to Consider Moms of Kids With Disabilities
I spoke at a Christian Women’s Conference last weekend. There were more than 600 women in attendance and as statistics would suggest, there were several women who parent kids with disabilities. We connected, we shared, we laughed, we cried together. Every time I...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.