As a mother of children living with special challenges, I had to speak out.

The movie "Tropic Thunder" premiers Wednesday, August 13. The movie as a spoof of Hollywood actors would get no grief from me...I would probably have gone to see it if they had left it at a spoof on Hollywood actors.

They chose to bring people living with intellectual disabilities in as fair game. No matter that their intention was to spoof the ridiculous portrayal of persons living with disability, the result is a perpetuation of the social stigma and denigration of people living with intellectual challenges.

Please, take a moment to read http://slurpinglife.typepad.com/slurping_life/2008/08/once-upon-a-t-2.html
and follow the links at the end of that post for more information.

Your thoughts are welcome here and there. Even when your opinion does not mesh with mine...I will never denigrate you. My intellectually challenged son has taught me better.

As a mom of boys living with special needs, I am thrilled to be a contributing author to a new blog, 5 Minutes for Special Needs. We launched 07-10-08 as a sister site of 5 Minutes for Moms.

Our goal is to be a comfy place of support, insight and inspiration. Please stop by:

http://www.5minutesforspecialneeds.com/

And what do you think? We need a group for parents of children with special needs at the Buzz...don't ya think? Let me know and I'll push for one. Thanks.

What a treat to open up my Buzz page and discover that the day after Mother's Day I am number one on the Mom Page.

Well, just thank you all! And, yes, that was spoken in the twangiest of southern drawls.

It's late. I'm really sleepy. But I do have a favor to ask.

Please read my last blog post about Hailey and show her some encouragement by simply commenting at her blog and/or posting about her blog. She is clearly a special little girl with a heart full of love and hope.

(Here's the url link -I don't do HTML well- but the blog post should also being showing in my Widget on my Buzz profile page. http://slurpinglife.typepad.com/slurping_life/2008/03/alexanders-hear.html

Hailey is what is right in this world.

Thanks in advance.

How do you people do it? Keep up I mean.

I am so far behind here...and in life...and feel completely lost. My bloggy friends of cre8Buzz...I miss knowing what is happening...who is happening...is anything happening?

This I know...when I have surgery next week, I am sitting on my butt and blogging and buzzing my way to recovery.

Good grief, is this pathetic or what? I'm am so blaming my kids.