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Today, SNSS is going hyper-local. My

guest today, Michaela Searfoorce

, is someone I actually met first in real life and not the bloggosphere. (What? It happens!) She lives in my neighborhood and our sons were in the same special needs "challenger division" basketball league. 

Furthermore Michaela is a major force in the New York City Upper West Side Special Needs Parenting community. I had found out about the basketball league at one of the regular monthly informational meetings that Michaela organizes.

Her blog The Foorce

(a fun play on her name) is mostly focused on providing support and resources for our local New York City special needs community, but is also a place where Michaela shares some of her personal story from time to time.

She is the mother of three children: 11 year-old James and his two young sisters. James has a rare chromosome defect which has resulted in numerous medical issues, global developmental and physical delays, and labels such as PDD-NOS, Sensory Integration Dysfunction and ADD.

Chances are, if you have a special needs child(ren), they have at least something in common with James. I can tell you firsthand he is a delightful boy with a huge heart and I was always happy when he and Jake were paired up together in basketball practice.

Read on, now, for a glimpse into Michaela's wonderful family, a pair of life-slices that add up to a beautiful thought:

Reading this lovely post, I found myself once again wishing I had somehow

been

magically able to provide Jake with a little sister to look up to and after him.

And then I read some of Michaela's "Patience and Foortitude" posts on her blog about the challenges of life with a big special needs kid, a toddler and a baby... and I rethought that one.

Having had a little glimpse into

Michaela

's family here, you should definitely follow her home to her blog, The Foorce

, to read more. If you are New York City local, read it all, there's some great resources there. If you're from elsewhere and want to skip the local stuff,, the posts in the "General" category are where you'll find the personal, family ones. 

Start here with this one, about a particularly exhausting evening:

Patience and Foortitude, Part 3: Just Foortitude This Time, With Special Guest Appearance By Windex 

(and yes, I've finally found someone who makes my often long post titles seem pithy).

Also, try this post about a milestone - riding a Ferris Wheel - that may seem small to some, but we special needs parents know better.  Or this one, a letter of appreciation on James's 11th birthday. 

Finally, if you want further proof of what a supermom Michaela is, read this pair of posts about James's

heartbreaking

massive "poop incident" at his school (due to his medical issues) and how his mom talked to his inclusion class about it (and answered other questions about James' differences) so that he would be safe retuning to the school, afterward.

Thank you so much,

, for sharing your wonderful son James, and the rest of your lovely, special family with us today.

Looking for comments? To read or leave a comment, click on THIS post's title, or HERE, to bring you to the post's page view. Comments should appear below.

I don't know how to properly introduce today's SNSS guest blogger, to convey her awesomeness. She is Amy Hillis of the blog Transplanted Thoughts.  

Amy is an amazing mother and a wonderful, moving writer. She has also been through more tragedy than any other person I know, and somehow still finds life entertaining and amusing. 

What do I mean by tragedy? Amy has had seven children. Five of them are still living. The other two have been lost to the same rare genetic disorder that affects two out of her three still living younger children (the eldest two, from her first marriage, are now grown). 

When Amy began her blog, her youngest son David was sickly, but still alive, and those of us who read her followed along with his final days, filtered through Amy's anguished posts. He spent the last 5 months of his short life in the hospital, his mother by his side.

Theirs is obviously an intense environment, and yet Amy works hard to bring much balance and order, normalcy, joy and a sense of purpose into their lives. 

Read Amy's moving words, here, now, as she

writes about the sometimes rocky relationship between Jacob, her unaffected son and his just-a-bit-younger brother, Jonathan, who is often ill:

I am often amazed by Amy, how she carries on with life amidst the loss. She feels and acknowledges her sadness but isn't engulfed and destroyed by it, somehow manages to be there, fully present for her still living children who need their mother as much as ever.

What is most inspiring about her is her realness, and her willingness to share that with her readers. We see that she is some days sad and mad but also loving, humorous and even grateful.

Now that you have read Amy here, you are surely going to want to follow her home to her

blog Transplanted Thoughts and read more of her family's story and her beautiful writing.

If you want to know about what happened to her first son with citrullinemia

who lived only 5 days as the doctors puzzled out what was wrong with him, read this post here: Introductions

For an incredibly touching and sad moment when Amy's son talks with her about missing his baby brother David, and wants to make sure he is being looked after in heaven, read this one: Moon Talk

(warning have hanky ready).

And then, because her tag line IS "Life's still funny" try this funny post about her sons' Sailor-speak (something I think all of us with boys will relate to).

Amy would also like it if you would come stalk her on Twitter, where she tweets as @transplantedx3 and on her Facebook Fan page, 

Thank you so much Amy, for bringing your beautiful words to SNSS today.

This post was written in response to a prompt from Write on Edge to paint the picture of a place (real or imaginary) in our mind, and then use words to paint it for our readers. So I chose a place that was both.

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I am Squashed!

About Me

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The Cement Worker, 1955 .... This is one of my father's most well known photographs.

My Dad, Jim Steinhardt 1917-2010

The Squashed Cast:

Blog Archive

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Thank You!

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