I'm running for Camp No Limits
Last December, Jordan and I launched our first ever fundraiser for Camp No Limits. In about a month, Jordan was able to celebrate her birthday knowing we raised enough to send six kids to camp. She’s incredibly proud. So this year, I hope to raise even more for a number of reasons. First, we want…
Read More +Getting into the right mindset
This morning was the start of a new week-long summer camp. It’s Cameron’s fifth year attending Camp Invention but it’s Jordan’s first. That means a new environment, new kids and new questions. We’ve been through it many times before but it’s been a while since Jordan went into a totally new environment to meet new…
Read More +Jumping into the blog world
When you are a parent, you can feel alone even when there are all kinds of parents around you. There are hundreds of parenting books out there but in the end, it’s up to you to figure it all out. I’ve spent years figuring it out while blogging about it along the way. I started…
Read More +A growing, yet fractured, community
I’ve talked about the special needs world during public speeches and here on this site regarding a constantly changing face of the community. Social networking is a huge reason why so many more families and members of the special needs world can connect with each other. I have learned SO much from so many other…
Read More +Power struggle
We ended the swim season today. It was the first time we’d joined a swim team… and I want them to continue. But wow. It was hard to stick with it. There are a handful of reasons: 1) Jordan hates being cold. When she’s cold, she’s cranky. When she’s cranky, she doesn’t want to listen.…
Read More +All kinds of love
In the last month, Jordan had a chance to be a flower girl in two weddings. One for one of my former students and one for my uncle who was able to find love after we lost my aunt to ovarian cancer. After attending Camp No Limits, there was a lot of discussion about how…
Read More +So many memories
We’re finally home and I’m able to upload more pictures and share this year’s super fun slide show from the 2012 Camp No Limits Missouri experience. It was super special and incredible to see a camp that started out with four limb different kids had SO MANY people attend just four years later. One of…
Read More +Camp No Limits 2012
We’re attending our fourth Camp No Limits Missouri this week and as usual, it’s awesome. I’m going through HUNDREDS of photos taken by so many parents who are here with the 25 kids attending this year. It’s amazing to see. Only four years ago there were four families with maybe nine kids… It was tiny.…
Read More +Look at this!
We are at Camp No Limits Missouri and Jordan wanted to show you what she can do!! Tying her shoe!
Read More +Practicing for something special
I don’t attend a ton of weddings these days. Most of my friends are married or not married and they aren’t really in a getting married stage of life. We happen to have three wedding this summer which is three more than we usually attend. Add to this interesting experience, Jordan gets to be a…
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