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and old time over at wordpress and until i get all the links to this site moved over slow going i m going to continue to post my moved to wordpress message here if you were a follower or a subscriber here please go over to my new location at walkonthehappyside wordpress com and subscribe over there i d love the company btw i m blogging weekly on 5 minutes for special needs and approximately monthly on living with special needs now too check em out when you have the chance and thanks as always for reading xo maggie posted by maggiemae at 3 19 am 4 comments sunday december 19 2010 we moved to wordpress visit us at take a walk on the happy side on wordpress tweet posted by maggiemae at 10 21 am 2 comments saturday december 4 2010 5mfsn visitors sorry folks my old website is listed over at five minutes for special needs we ll get that fixed asap in the meantime if you re looking for my newly migrated blog i can be found tapping away these cold winter days over at take a walk on the happy side on wordpress thanks for clicking through btw if you like what you read over there subscribe but don t subscribe here unless you want to receive this message over and over again tweet posted by maggiemae at 9 07 pm 0 comments friday december 3 2010 my mini happiness project fitness challenge take a walk over to my new home at walkonthehappyside wordpress com to read about my self imposed mini happiness project fitness challenge happy is as happy does tweet posted by maggiemae at 12 49 am 0 comments sunday november 28 2010 take a walk over to wordpress please visit us at our new home at talk a walk on the happy side at wordpress tweet posted by maggiemae at 6 52 am 0 comments friday november 26 2010 feeling thankful re posted from my new home take a walk on the happy side at wordpress com everybody and his brother are writing thanks giving posts today i m no exception except this blog is my happiness project and one of the tenets of maintaining my happiness is to always stay focused on all the wondrous things i have in my life right now so for me this day is hardly different from any other except i m in good company giving thanks and i happily share in a huge thanksgiving feast with my family and thankful for the opportunity to do so ya know it s pretty easy to be thankful for the good stuff thanks god for letting me win the lottery thanks for this big beautiful house i live in thanks for my good looks and big brains or is that the other way around lol it s the gifts we receive reluctantly the tough ones that we might think at least initially are a threat to our happiness and well being that challenge our thankfulness but i ve come to believe those are the ones that give us the most to be thankful for and those are the ones i m especially giving thanks for today because in the throes of the day to day chaos of my life those are the blessings i don t always take the time to appreciate 1 i am so unbelievably grateful for the extra 21st chromosome that my boys have been gifted these two beautiful little men have taught me more every single day of their short lives than i learned in all the years preceding the births of my 3 children more about the world more about human nature and more about myself i am a better more patient and compassionate person grounded in the things that really matter in life because of them they are masters of unconditional love dogged perseverance altruistic intentions inspiring motivation undying hope blind faith living for today and doing just because it s fun i would not change a thing about them especially not that microscopic little third copy of their 21st chromosome 2 i live in the heart of keeping up with the jones territory never mind that i can t compete in that race i have absolutely no desire to even try my focus is on my relationships my children my husband my family my friends not stuff and i am oddly thankful for the financial challenges i faced in my young life and for those i ve faced more recently that not only taught me invaluable survival skills but also enabled me to embrace a more minimalist lifestyle it was knowing how to survive with little and knowing i would survive no matter what that afforded me the option of leaving my high paying job to stay home to raise my beautiful children certainly this is a case of that which does not destroy us makes us stronger and i am thankful for the strength and knowledge that i call on every day not only to survive but to thrive 3 i m thankful for my college education in psychology that s an easy one and for my personal experience in seeing the benefit of professional counseling sometimes tough having someone with an unbiased non judgemental listening ear to talk with someone whose knowledge of human behavior and ability to relate it to our own behavior to help us to see the folly of our own thoughts and actions is invaluable i am of the firm belief that everyone can benefit from counseling and i have successfully instilled that belief in my old soul which thankfully will serve her well in life and i am eternally grateful for the amazing and insightful dr briglio in lynbrook ny whose ability to see and translate what i have not managed to decipher in my life in my children s lives and on so many fronts is nothing short of amazing 4 i am glad that i m 48 that s not an easy thing to say because i know that i m getting old and i loved being 28 but if i found myself in the wondrous place i now occupy when i was 28 i m pretty sure i would not have had the wisdom to navigate these sometimes shark infested waters as gracefully if i may be so bold as i m doing it now now if you know me at all i m not the graceful sort and i m not even hinting that i m a graceful old sod now so much as i m thinking this life might have been an insurmountable challenge for 28 year old margie but for 48 year old maggie with her just another bump in the road point of view it s no big deal and i am grateful i am me now 5 whoever wrote with age comes wisdom was sooo right so was the guy who said youth is wasted on the young and the one who coined the term if i knew then what i know now all really smart guys full of hindsight yeah 20 20 hindsight is good but being nearsighted about the present is better i m thankful for the ability to appreciate my sometimes shady past only in my head lol to not worry so much about what the future holds and most importantl y to be able to bask in the sunshine of today most days in my children s movie kung fu panda master ugway says to po the past is behind us the future is unknown but today is a gift that is why they call it the present so live for today and be thankful for it there are many who didn t get to live through today many who didn t get to eat a thanksgiving feast who didn t share their day with loved ones i wish you all a thankful and happy heart this thanksgiving day and every day xo maggie tweet posted by maggiemae at 9 07 am 0 comments saturday november 20 2010 welcome 5mfsn visitors welcome visitors from 5 minutes for special needs and thanks for stopping by feel free to peruse the site and read some past posts but if you happen to like what you see and decide to sign up please please p l e a s e do so on my newly migrated site at walkonthehappyside wordpress com you see i ve been having some issues with blogspot s ability to see and track my subscribers and unfortunately since they can t see you i can t migrate you for this move this and the fact that today was my first post as a contributing author over at 5 minutes for special needs necessitated the move now i don t want you all looking for me here at my old digs when i m over at wordpress sprucing up the site and posting my long winded advocacy rants and strange nuggets of happiness wisdom going forward like it or not my new site retains the same name and content but with a slightly different disheveled look that does appropriately and unfortunately mirror the state of my life just now while i struggle to find moments to cram wordpress for dummies and update the new site i ll continue to post on both sites giving my faithful readers here a chance to take a walk over to wordpress on their own time and terms so bear with me during my self directed trial and error strictly aesthetic make over pretty much how i address everything in life the look will evolve but my content will continue to be about my pursuit of happiness while facing the challenges of motherhood working 2 part time jobs as an inclusion advocate and a business editor writer re building this old house and raising my 3 beautiful children the venerable old soul and 2 amazing little men who share the same genes including an extra 21st chromosome aka down syndrome thank you for stopping by i hope you ll find the time to take a walk on the happy side with me over at wordpress i ll see you there tweet posted by maggiemae at 9 40 pm 2 comments friday november 12 2010 language development through movies i m sitting here where i ve been sitting most of my day working on my laptop to meet a self imposed but necessary deadline for one of my 2 new part time jobs the boys who are suffering on and off with a gastrointestinal virus read diarrhea for the majority of 2 weeks now have been marathon movie watching most of the day taking advantage of my distracted state i don t know about your kids but mine get a lot of expressive language practice watching movies and repeating the narrative they not only act out but speak the actor s lines perfecting their articulation with repetitive viewing and rehearsal i and my speech therapist approve most of the time the caveat you have to know what they re watching garfield the movie is our fifth movie of the day and as it s late they ve planted themselves right smack in front of the proverbial tube a misnomer for televisions that no longer have tubes and are gazing up intently necks strained at the over sized screen i note they re being relatively quiet which tells me it s time for bed suddenly the following scene plays out jon is crushing on garfield s attractive female veterinarian while garfield is giving a cat to owner pep talking on the benefits of actually asking her out instead of making multiple unnecessary trips to the vet the pep talk begins with a very positive rant until jon is out of garfield s earshot when the belligerent orange cat culminates with calling his beloved owner a schmuck i won t go into the meaning of that word here but suffice it to say it is not appropriate for anyone to say in good company much less 2 5 year old little boys with down syndrome no sooner does that word boom out of our pseudo surround sound system than both boys chime in together with absolutely perfect articulation schmuck huh omg now if the old soul didn t make such a big deal out of it by drumming into their innocent little heads that this is a word that nice kids don t use if i wasn t covering my face and laughing and if they didn t know that shaking shoulders also means i m laughing and trying to keep them from realizing it they might not ever have figured out that this was a word the world their big sister and their mama didn t really want to hear them perfect ahh but mothering and language development are imperfect arts so if you hear my boys use this nasty little word in the near future please excuse them while we work on unlearning it tweet posted by maggiemae at 9 43 pm 3 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom follow via e mail enter your email address delivered by feedburner or read in a feed posts atom posts all comments atom all comments or on twitter my motivation inspired by the http happiness project com i began this blog in pursuit of my own happiness while raising my 3 children including identical twins with down syndrome on these pages i endeavor to document the bits and pieces of my life that bring me the most happiness and keep me focused on all the positive stuff going on advocacy angels and random happy thoughts these are the threads of happiness that are inextricably woven through the cloth of my life staying focused and writing about these things is what keeps me walking on the happy side of life i d love it if you would take a walk on the happy side with me followers click here to follow facebook badge margaret marshall hagan create your badge blog archive 2011 1 january 1 moved to walkonthehappyside wordpress com 2010 95 december 3 november 7 october 13 september 6 august 7 july 9 june 3 may 8 april 8 march 8 february 8 january 15 2009 184 december 10 november 9 october 25 september 17 august 14 july 15 june 19 may 17 april 15 march 17 february 14 january 12 2008 53 december 15 november 15 october 23 visitors free web counter love my designer genes down syndrome links down syndrome advocacy foundation national down syndrome society national down syndrome congress down syndrome research and treatment foundation downtown ds einstein syndrome down syndrome health down syndrome for new parents band of angels alexander s angels down syndrome awareness my blog is listed at themomblogs com copywright blog content is copywrighted permission to reprint granted upon request commons attribution no derivative works 3 0 united states license think thankful there s barely a better sign that someone or some dog is happy to see you than when they wag their tail my bubba a 13 year old black chow chow has a curly spray of a tail that she very discriminantly wags but always always rapidly for me when she greets me as i walk into the house i love that i absolutely love the sound of that deep guttural laugh til i choke belly laugh brought on by big wet raspberries my kids love raspberries and i love to oblige just to hear that beautiful joyful laughter that happens whether they re actually being raspberried or when they re just anticipating raspberries i m thankful for the feather soft skin and barely there blonde peach fuzz at the base of brian s and michael s neck it is my most favorite place to kiss them eliciting a giggle that sounds like the tinkling of a crystal bell i love it i love lying in bed beside my daughter at night each of us reading our respective books then when she finally closes her book and snuggles into her pillow i listen for that easy and even breathing that indicates she s fallen peacefully to sleep it is a routine i love a peaceful way for both of us to end our day there is no greater joy than waking up to my children s beautiful sunshine y smiles each morning i am thankful for my boys healthy and strong immune systems brian s recent bout with pneumonia was short lived because his immune system and the antibiotics responded well and quickly i ve heard stories of pneumonia lasting several weeks thankfully ours was a quick 3 day hospital stay with amazing results restoring him quickly to good health i love the feeling of my sons warm little hands holding mine when they want to show me an amazing discovery in the next room or to feel safe or to 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