Emmett’s Little World

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5 ways being a special needs mom has made me a better person [Guest Post by Kelly Mantoan!]

I have never had a guest blogger visit Svellerella before. Never. You would know, right? A (long) while back, I asked a fellow blogger -whom I admire and fangirl hard over- to write me something special so I could have it on hand to post after Jude was born. I think it’s safe to say…

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One man’s business trip is another mother’s luxurious vacation.

About once a year, Craig takes a business trip to the coast (sometimes east, but mostly west), to visit multiple clients and talk about fruit and peppers and produce because that’s what he deals with and I hold a bitter grudge against him for leaving me to wipe three children’s bums while he sleeps 8…

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Road tripper

Okay hello. Happy October to you all. We road tripped to Columbus for my cousin Dave’s wedding last weekend. One should know the Svell family doesn’t do vacations or road trips. This was our first one. Ever. Naturally, pre-trip I was wound up in anxiety about how Emmett would handle the whole thing: the foreign sleeping situation, the…