Understanding Lu

So today I figured out how to use Google+ to add pictures to my blog!!! I have been trying to figure out how to add pictures since I sta...

Yesterday the Shaffer family arrived at their beach front condo in Duck, North Carolina for their first real vacation as a family. It is jus...

I will not deny that sometimes I use my blog to express feelings to my friends and family...so I can do so in a calm, thoughtful, and constr...

In the past few weeks: 1.) Lu has started not only sometimes peeing on the potty after her bath, but now she is pooping too! She has done ...

Well, here we are finally! Chad and I are at the World Rett Syndrome Congress in New Orleans! We flew in yesterday and it was a breeze...wel...

Last summer, before we knew anything about Rett Syndrome and assumed that Lu would just "catch up" as the neurologist suggested, I...

I'll save everyone the suspense...Mother's Day made me mad...that was the surprise. On stupid Facebook I read all kinds of things ab...