They Gave Her a Chance…
With the excitement and anticipation of seventh grade starting tomorrow, I couldn’t let the weekend go by without stopping and looking back with gratitude on a season of Julia’s life fondly coming to a close. Thank you Miss Loretta!
Letting Her Worship Her Way…
With all of her cognitive delays, I have often wondered if Julia truly understands that there is a God who created her and loves her. I got a relieving bit of clarity as I watched her connect at tonight’s Good Friday service.
“Is it worth it?” Right Question. Wrong Day.
It’s a great day to celebrate our friends with Down syndrome! Communities gather, selfies are taken – and hopefully that puts some gas in the tank for the seasons when it’s tougher…
Christmas Greetings
A reflection on the hope of Christmas revealed itself in the last seconds of a middle school girls’ basketball game, and some in our community (myself included) may never be the same.
Little Silhouettes
It’s Labor Day Weekend and the whole neighborhood is taking in the last days of summer. In a moment like this, it’s important to celebrate the beauty of it all. But I experienced something in community tonight that made me want to celebrate all the more…
The Day I Doubted Would Come…
Julia’s graduation from fifth grade is the fulfillment of a lot of hard work and dedication by a lot of people. But I had wondered early on if it would ever happen. Those fears – and the fears of the future – were answered in a peculiar way.
Reading, Writing & The Art of Human Kindness
It’s World Down Syndrome Day! For all of Julia’s delays and the hard work that is required to come to terms with it, there is beauty that she excels at that needs celebration right along with reading, writing and arithmetic.
COVID-19, Meet Trisomy-21
Even in the craziness of a pandemic, Julia and our friends with Down syndrome have a lot to teach us.
Meanwhile, Progress.
You are about to witness in this short missive the boundless joy coupled with the urge to punch yourself in the head that a parent of a kid with special needs experiences from time to time.
Everybody Wins – One Dad’s Perspective on World Down Syndrome Day
Life is just as crazy as ever with a mountain of projects and a stacked up calendar. But a week before World Down Syndrome Day, it took a kid stringing fruit cereal on a pipe cleaner to remind me of what’s really going on.