What About Dignity and Respect? When Our Disability Attitudes Fail Us
As parents of kids with disabilities, we want our children to be treated with dignity and respect. But what if we, as parents, don’t model that? I’m going to say something that will make a lot of people uncomfortable: sometimes we are the ones who treat our children...
Living a Thankful Life
At the end of 2015 I felt as if I was merely surviving. Life was more than I could handle, and I knew that I needed 2016 to be different. This was a time where I felt God call me to living a life of thankfulness and gratitude, and my resolution for 2016 became to make...
New Year’s Resolutions for Special Needs Moms
Everyone is talking about resolutions, but it’s hard to think about resolutions when we’re in the middle of messy, and hard, and you want to scream, “somebody please send me a lifeboat!” As the waves of hard come and go, there are a few things I need to...
Top 5 Posts of 2016
Can you believe that 2016 is almost done? There is so much we can talk about that has touched all of us in some ways, so rather than focusing on that type of recap, here are the top 5 posts on the blog. Posts to offer you some hope and encouragement as you finish the...
Struggling to Find the Christmas Cheer?
There are so many grand expectations for Christmas, yet sometimes it feels as if the Christmas cheer has gone missing, doesn’t it? How do you participate in the merry and glad when you’re just trying to make it through the Holidays? You wish for the normal days to...
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.