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Special Children Need by JAK guest blogger, Amanda Burns, of Racine Hi there. My name is Amanda J. Burns, and I founded Children with Disabilities in February of 2007 inspired by my son who was born with Cerebral Palsy . The goal of this organization is to help fund programs that serve special needs children. These children require a lot of supplies at school and acquiring those supplies can get expensive. The teachers and teacher’s aides that work in the special needs classes purchase a lot of the supplies that are used at school. As there isn’t a budget for these supplies, the cost comes out of the pockets of the teachers and staff. The supplies include such things as laundry soap, tissue, baby wipes, dish soap, and liquid hand soap. Other supplies are school and craft items such as markers, paints, construction paper, and so forth. The children also go on outings that include going to Target, Wal-Mart , and the bowling alley. These outings require the parents and caregivers of the ...

Big Snow! Big Game! Big Mamma! This has really been quite the incredible year so far on so many levels.  We Wisconsinites have seen our state in the national spotlight as I haven't ever remembered in recent years.  In a positive light, too. Whether it's been politically, our president making several trips to Wisconsin and Paul Ryan stepping up his congressional role and responding to last week's State of the Union address.  Or our beautiful gems the Milwaukee Art Museum and the lakefront showcased last week on American Idol . Of course, now we are in the midst of the big dig out and big freeze, in anticipation of the big game coming up this weekend.  America's Dairyland has gone "Big Time"! All of this "bigness" has put this momma into a routine tailspin!  I know I will bounce back, I always do. Read More... Unfortunately, when you are a telecommuter or work from home, you can't necessarily take off for a school snow day, even if a ...