BERGEN COUNTY MOMS

There is a special beauty in celebrating the Down syndrome community just as spring is surfacing here in northern New Jersey. Our bulbs...

Henry and Hope with a friend from Joyful Noise, St. Elizabeth’s children’s choir.  One of the reasons I love to write is that writing...

“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.” -Albert Einstein    When I became pregnant, I was certain I would get by on...

I don’t know how you do it . I’ve never met a parent raising a disabled child who has not been told this at least once. For many of us,...

A few weeks ago, I pulled the slow cooker down from a high shelf of one of my kitchen cabinets, reuniting with an old friend whose...

We’re well into Down Syndrome Awareness Month and are thrilled to celebrate with you! Your feeds and stories should be swamped by now...

Some mom friends and I were discussing our plans to bring World Down Syndrome Day into our children’s schools this year, and I just had...

I recently heard an educator label a former student as “low,” as in “low functioning.” We hear the terms low and high functioning quite...

This week, New Jersey students participated in their schools’ programming for the Week of Respect. Each grade level tackled concepts of...

The phrase “Down syndrome is a blessing” is a common utterance of a rare and precious insight into compassion, honesty, and wholeness....

I never took much notice of October’s Down Syndrome Awareness Month until 2015, when a positive blood test, thick nuchal translucency,...