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Last week, my four kiddos (5, 7, 9, and 11) and I stopped in to the new Defy in Sparks for an afternoon of fun together. Let me tell you, I was so surprised at how much fun we all had, and at how the layout allowed for my often clingy 5-year-old to feel like he could roam around without me a bit

When he started middle school, we didn’t want him bussed far away as was typically the school district’s way of handling kids on the autism spectrum. About Newton Learning Center and Second Start Learning Disabilities Programs, Inc. Newton Learning Center is a member of the Second Start Learning Disabilities Programs, Inc. family. Founded in 1974 in San Jose, California, Second Start Learning Disabilities Programs, Inc. was created to offer tutorial and diagnostic clinics to children with severe disabilities, such as autism. Today, Second Start Learning Disabilities Programs, Inc. operates four schools in Northern California and Northern Nevada including Pine Hill San Jose, Newton Learning Center San Jose, Pine Hill South Monterey and Newton Learning Center Northern Nevada.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) released the current efficacy of the flu shot this year, and it’s better than it has been in past years, at an average of 47% protection. Now, here’s the thing- the way they judge this is by picking 5 locations across the country where they evaluate people who go to the doctor complaining of flu-like symptoms, then test those people for flu. You may feel a little sick after getting a flu shot, or have been exposed to a virus when going to get your flu shot at your doctor’s office or the pharmacy (prime breeding grounds for infection), but the vaccine is a dead virus that literally couldn’t infect a fly. If it’s a runny nose and you’re just feeling a little under the weather, more likely a cold virus so drink plenty of fluids and make sure you’re getting enough rest.

you just don’t have the time to do them right now, and you just can’t even think about it, and you just have to find a place for this other dish that you’re just sure will fit, and you’re just going to squeeze it in to the sink in the hopes that everything doesn’t come crashing down. We have six, seven, eight, and nine, and then we have things we don’t want to do, and things we don’t want to say no to. And just because our weather vane is pointing in one direction at a given time doesn’t mean that we don’t care about the rest of our life – It’s the tired where just thinking about how tired I am brings tears to my eyes and makes my nose burn, because if I think about it too much and I don’t power through the nose burn, I’ll break down, and I just don’t have time for that because crying in front of strangers on an airplane is just not a priority right now, thankyouverymuch.