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Are you out of your mind? With that exclamation did the author's father greet her announcement that she and her husband were expecting their first child. And for good reason, because his daughter was disabled from birth and as a father of ten he knew from experience the many challenges children would bring. Thus began the author's odyssey as a disabled mother raising two imaginative and rambunctious boys to adulthood. Along the way she learned that motherhood sometimes required inventive solutions and that children had their own definition for assistive devices . My Mommy's Toys is a children's coloring book written from the point of view of the oldest son in the author's family. This book is unique because the Mommy's Toys are crutches, a walker and a wheelchair. This story is filled with antics of the brothers using Mommy's toys in their play and gives some insight into raising children when the mother has Cerebral Palsy.

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Angela Donnette Gould was born six weeks early with Cerebral Palsy. She is the second oldest of ten children. Her father was in the United States Navy. Naval doctors diagnosed Angela at about eighteen months old with Spastic Diplegia (Cerebral Palsy). However, it wasn't until a friend of her mother's suggested Shriners Children's Hospital that Angela started receiving the life-long care she would need. Angela states I was after the polio epidemic and before mainstreaming Angela Donnette graduated from a Catholic High School, and earned both a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and a Master's Degree in Software in Engineering. However due to complications resulting from cerebral palsy, Angela's job is to stay healthy. Angela Donnette lives with her husband, two boys, and their poodle Luke on the West Coast. She does physical therapy four times a week (pain permitting), enjoys reading and writing with the use of a speech to text software.

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