Talking to our kids
I’ve written before about how I strive to help my daughter grow to be a confident and able person… Even if she visually doesn’t fit in with the status quo. I worry our culture is just so dang image-focused that it could hurt her personal image. I also worry the attempts I and others make…
Read More +Happy Father's Day
It’s a vacation Father’s Day!! I’m so thankful to have Randy in my world and especially happy to have him as the father of our two kids. They have picked up on all of the quirky personality traits that made me fall for him a long, long time ago. (Okay, not that long ago… but…
Read More +Vacation reading: Good Enough is the New Perfect
I rarely take the time to sit down and read a book… So when Hollee Schwartz Temple contacted me a while back for an advance copy of Good Enough is the New Perfect; Finding Happiness and Success in Modern Motherhood, I thought it was worth trying… but I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be able…
Read More +She can't do that!
Jordan is able to do anything… Seriously. In the past day she broke open eggs to help make our breakfast. She was obsessed with being in the front of our large hiking group. She rode a trail-a-bike with her mom… …And even tried to do push-ups while wearing her bike arm. She can do anything…
Read More +Wearing prosthetics for fun
It isn’t every day when you ask your child to grab a sword and put on her hook arm… But this past weekend was that kind of opportunity. Arg!! There was a pirate invasion on Saturday in Damariscotta, Maine – just 45 minutes away from where we are staying for our vacation. It was just…
Read More +Back in Maine
We’re so happy to be back in Maine! It took two long days of driving… 24 hours or so. But it’s always worth it. The kids were ITCHING to get to the water once we got here. Jordan went right to climbing rocks, Cameron started skipping rocks. It was really cool. We got here just…
Read More +Giving it a try
Before we ran off to our yearly vacation, Jordan finished her first t-ball season. She wasn’t a stranger to the baseball fields. She’s attended her brother’s games since she was a baby. It was fun to give her a chance to play. What I didn’t expect was she would like it so much. Catching the…
Read More +Know your facts
One of the first things Jordan and I did was attend the Amputee Coalition’s upper limb prosthetic session on current and expanding technologies. I have to say, there still aren’t as many huge advances in technology as I would have expected five and a half years into this experience. When Jordan was born, there was…
Read More +Amputee Coalition: Day 3
I realize I have to break down all kinds of lessons and information I learned during the Amputee Coalition‘s national conference. So I’ll give a quick rundown of our final day taking part in the conference. I had hoped to attend one session on prosthetic hand technology, but trying to get a little girl out…
Read More +Amputee Coalition: Day 2
Our second day at the conference was less session focused and more social-focused. Jordan is one of the youngest attendees and the only little girl of the limb different kids. So that means she’s gotten to know some of the grown ups pretty well. She got to swim, meet new people and have lunch with…
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