by Julie Hornok | Dec 23, 2019 | Featured
See this beautiful girl putting up our Christmas tree?!?! This is the same girl who left her presents unwrapped and untouched under the tree on Christmas morning. This is the same girl who refused to sing Christmas carols. This is the same girl who melted down or hid...
by Wendy Fournier | Mar 7, 2019 | Featured
Guest blogger: Julie Hornok It wasn’t the bright white coat or cold, sterile environment that sent chills down my spine. It was the doctor’s life-changing words, “Your daughter has autism.” With that overwhelming diagnosis, the doctor might as well have handed me a...
by Julie Hornok | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured
Guest blogger: Julie Hornok During my childhood, I tried every type of activity imaginable, but never seemed to find “my thing.” I tried soccer, but getting kicked in the shin wasn’t worth the lack of thrill I felt when someone else kicked a ball through the...
by Wendy Fournier | Nov 20, 2018 | Featured
Guest blogger: Julie Hornok I sunk down a little deeper into my old brown leather couch and tried to clear my head. My mind had been on a loop for months desperately trying to figure out what else I could do to help my daughter, Lizzie. She was diagnosed with autism...
by Julie Hornok | Oct 15, 2018 | Featured
By guest blogger: Julie Hornok From the moment I heard those devastating words, “Your daughter, Lizzie, has autism” questions loomed in the back of my mind. “Will she become a functioning adult and be able to contribute to the world?” “Would I be okay if she...
