Roxy's House

12/30/2025

Here’s an example of the therapeutic process with a child with autism who is a GESTALT language processor (which most are)

12/21/2025

When your Christmas dreams come true 😍

12/11/2025

⭐️BIG NEWS FROM ROXY’S HOUSE!⭐️

Our beloved pole barn has officially begun its transformation into a beautiful, fully renovated animal-assisted therapy space and we are so excited to share it wih you.
Over the next couple of months, you’ll see this familiar barn turn into a welcoming, rustic chic, kid-friendly environment for our clients, complete with:
• New insulated walls for year-round comfort
• Ceiling fans and upgraded ventilation
• More indoor bathrooms (finally!)
• Warm, beautiful lighting and fixtures
• A new deck for outside sessions
• Warm wood walls and cabinetry
• A new stage for our children to shine
• Custom built in storage and cabinetry
• And a layout designed specifically for therapy, learning, and connection with our animals
But there’s more…
This renovation also allows us to launch our new sister business:The Stables at Roxy’s House, a breathtaking wedding and event venue. The space will be elegant enough to host unforgettable celebrations, while every booking helps support our not-for-profit mission at Roxy’s House. ❤️
We’re building a place where healing, community, and celebration all come together and we cannot wait for you to see it.
Stay tuned for photos, progress updates, and our official opening dates!
Thank you for believing in our mission and growing with us.

12/06/2025

12/06/2025

We are always trying.

A friend of mine messaged me recently about the extreme behaviors her child with an intellectual disability was displaying. Something, I’m familiar with. But she followed it up with saying, “My family thinks I don’t discipline him enough. They don’t get it.”

She’s right. They don’t. They can’t.

So, let me help you try to understand our families just a little bit better.

The behaviors are something many of us parents are constantly managing. We’ve gone to classes, we’ve read books, we’ve tried strategies, stopped those strategies, and started them again, stopped again, found a new method and…repeat.

Our kid’s behaviors also come in waves. My son went into a downward trend after Christmas that lasted through February. Then one day it stopped.

Nothing we did, to my knowledge, brought him out of it. We managed symptoms, but did not provide a cure.

For now, this is part of his life. And we are trying. My friend is trying. We are all trying.

Sometimes our trying looks like taking a more hands-off approach and sometimes it’s more hands-on. Sometimes it looks similar to how we parent our typically developing children, and sometimes it looks starkly different.

We understand our kid’s communication issues are frustrating to them. They respond in ways that don’t make sense to the outside world, or even to us. But they are trying too.

Living for them often takes more effort. Parenting them often takes more effort.

So, when you think we should be doing more to intervene, know that our current way of dealing might be doing less. If you think we are being too harsh, maybe our kids are more capable of understanding than you realize.

The bottom line is we are parenting children with disabilities in a world that is not accommodating to them.

We are trying to figure out how to best accommodate them.

Sometimes, they are exhausted. We often are, too.

We want the world to have high expectations of our kids, while also realizing that they need more support and grace in the process.

We try to remember these things ourselves. And it is a constant balancing act.

We know you can’t know our lives. But know this: we are always trying.
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12/01/2025

Therapy clients weather announcement:
Our lane and parking lot have been plowed and are fine to travel as of now (Monday morning). However, looks like more snow is coming tonight so we’ll keep you posted about possible closures this week.
Thank you to our board member, Liya Hussmann Rogers for generously getting our lane plowed! We are so grateful!

11/22/2025

Thank you, Sidell Reporter and Suzanne Woodard for sharing our story!

11/19/2025

The cow/alpaca chase is onnnnnn 🦙 🐮

10/20/2025

When you’re a horse but you think you’re a kid who likes to play with toy horses.

10/15/2025

When you’re reading a Halloween book in therapy and the black cat literally jumps off the page and comes to life.

10/08/2025

The pollinators are not done with the season. Our flower field has been infiltrated with hundreds of monarch butterflies. What a wonderful surprise so late in the year!