He's 4, my mighty one. and already he carries too heavy of a burden as a special needs sibling. He's perceptive and reads situations and emotions better than most adults. He loves his brother and already has taken on the emotional weight of being a helper and protector. Don't misunderstand. He is so very normal too. He loves, laughs, fights (way too much...) and yells at his brother … [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...]
I'm here in a season of change. I haven't gone this long without writing since I was pregnant with Sawer. It's not for writer's block, lack of inspiration or even not enough time. I have sat down to write dozens of times in the last few weeks with a dam of pent up thoughts that simply won't come out the way I want them to. There have been times I've stared wide-eyed at the computer screen with … [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...]
