Trying something new
Jordan’s brother, Cameron, tried a new sport this spring: Track. He’s a distance runner who is learning about sprinting. It’s an interesting new experience and he part likes it and part feels exhausted by it. But because it’s new, it had Jordan interested in the experience even though she’s on a softball team. Since we’re…
Read More +Finding Peace at Camp No Limits
We wrapped up our FIFTH year at Camp No Limits Missouri. Five years of camps. This year’s group was bigger than ever and as usual, it was remarkable. I feel the need to list some of the reasons why camp was amazing. 1) Thanks to you, the Born Just Right community, we were able to…
Read More +Camp No Limits – A personal experience
We have arrived for Camp No Limits Missouri 2013. Our memories of this year are just getting started… Like this tiny moment when Jordan grabbed onto her friend’s float with her little arm as they walked together. I’m in awe by the number of families we have met at camp this year who we know…
Read More +Wearable Born Just Right
Finally, after a very long wait… I’m happy to announce you can snag your very own Born Just Right gear. So many readers have reached out and asked for shirts! It had to happen. So with the help of a national website, I finally built it. For the first time, I had 14 shirts made…
Read More +Let's create a huge limb difference meetup
I’m wrapping up my final day out of town before I jump into some really exciting family adventures. Next week, Jordan, Cameron and I are attending Camp No Limits Missouri. With your support we raised almost $4,000 for the camp. It’s pretty awesome. I promise to tell the stories of camp while it’s underway here…
Read More +Summer Goals
It’s officially summer break for us and I’m hoping we can find ways to the kids to keep learning even if they aren’t in a classroom. Jordan has grown into a great reader in the last year but for some reason, it hasn’t translated into her becoming an excellent speller. For some reason, when she…
Read More +The time I tried to get us on a magazine cover
The Internet is a strange place. You can throw all kinds of ideas out there and you never know what might stick. In the last week, I had an opportunity to pitch the idea of putting a kid with a limb difference into the front cover of a national parenting magazine. It all started a…
Read More +The End of Simplicity
No one tells you that as your kids get bigger, life doesn’t get more simple. It gets much more complicated. Each year, my kids get more active and delve into more activities and adventures. I celebrate and support the piano, guitar, robotics, dance, softball, soccer, swimming, track and whatever else tends to come up in…
Read More +It's the little things
Kathryn returns with another post on her view as an adult with a limb difference. You can see previous posts here and here. I knew months ago that I wanted to write about the “little things” that get to me but also make me proud to be an adult with a limb difference. I smiled when…
Read More +Rally for Bailee
This morning, one of my former students shared a link to a story his newsroom produced about an eight-year-old named Bailee Iorg. She was born with a limb difference that led to an amputation of her foot when she was four months old. She started gymnastics a year ago and now she’d like to start…
Read More +