This time of year I am forced to clean out the sixty minutes of recording space in my FlipVideo camera and download any keepers into my computer so I can make room for new holiday memories. I had hoped to blog about the ghost of Christmas past and show a video of Jake’s speech from this …
I am a brainstormer. Every year at Christmas I make lists and then more lists, on how to create the perfect holiday experience for my family. Yes, this is stressful and I wish my personality type allowed me to just chill. And yes, every year I say that I won’t do it again next year, …
I consider myself to live out in the country (even though there is a Target three miles from my house) because there are a lot of pastures, cows, and because my kids’ school is a twenty-minute drive away. Therefore, when you factor in three kids, sports, and a few birthday parties, we wind up in …
Apraxia. Such a deeply shattering word when you first hear it. It’s a disorder that’s troubling enough to make you fear the struggles that lie ahead of you and yet at the same time, grateful that it’s not something worse. After I googled this word to death and after the diagnosis sank in a few …
Jake's Journey with Apraxia 