It stinks that he's beautiful, the boy who Summit doesn't get along with because an extremely petty part of me wants him to be hideous. (I started to type, "the boy that bullies Summit", but that would be an overstatement as from all accounts they antagonize each other constantly.) That fact that they equally harass each other is oddly comforting actually. Summit has been bullied over the … [Read more...]
I got to spend the day with some amazing people. Have you ever had a moment where you exclaimed, "I wish I could have been a fly on the wall!" Well today was that for me. I attended the 99 Balloons Engage Disability conference today in Fayetteville and was simply blown away by the passion and enthusiasm of these people. At one point (ok, like most of the day) I was choking back tears to be in … [Read more...]
The hardest parts within the complexities of special needs parenting are the every day ones. The moments where I simply don't know WHY he's having a meltdown. Language complications worse than foreign or cultural barriers because he's MINE and my family and I want to help him better. His words don't make sense, each individual one does, just not all strung haphazardly together … [Read more...]
we are CALLED to more than we CAN do. I've been working on this post for almost a month now, it's not been ready and there is still a lingering feeling of incompletion, but sometimes it's good to post from a place of not-quite-ready. This is such a small part of where I am but it's been a persistent splinter in my finger, causing shooting pains at whatever I have touched. It's been … [Read more...]
