Marley's Magical Mind

Hi friends! Its been a few months since my last post.  Marley is thriving in her new class. She's doing very well in her classes and is even doing pretty good with math.  Her class has a separate teacher just for special education students.  Unfortunately her original special education teacher fell sick and had to take a medical leave. Luckily her new teacher is very sweet, but we all know how she does with changes.  It took a few days but she was able to adjust. She has been blossoming as a writer.  She discovered the 'notes' in her Mac computer.  She has been typing away with new stories and situations she imagines.  I haven't read any of it yet.  I don't want to break her trust and have her stop writing.  She is very "all or nothing".  If she finds out I read her 'diary' she will never forgive me.   Her lyme disease hasn't reactivated.  I'm really hoping it hasn't taken over her like it's taken over me.  She asked me...

I decided to start this blog in order to post some of my masterpieces...yeah, right... that I have made with my own two hands. I have always enjoyed using my hands to create and build things that were running through my head. Sometimes I get it in the first shot and others, well, not so much. I like to make jewelry, paint furniture and renovate my house.  I have been living in Howell, NJ for 5 years now and loving it.  I am originally from North Bergen, NJ.  I enjoyed my time in good old North Bergen, but it's so close to Manhattan that it now resembles it.  So off to the boondocks, or so my mom likes to think, I went. Howell is not the boondocks...lol... I have a mall 7 minutes away and lots of strip malls on route 9.  Tons of restaurant and a top notch school system.  My daughter is in special education and she is thriving in the Howell school system.  They have a very good Autism program. I will try to post every week with any projects that I st...