We continue to have amazing adventures each weekend. This weekend we spent time with our friends Tim and Renee and their awesome son and enjoyed a ton of music at St. Louis’ inaugural LouFest music festival. Randy and I have gone to a lot of music festivals in our time together… But we’ve never been [...]
Entries Tagged as '2010'
Festival Fun
August 29th, 2010 · 4 Comments · 2010, Music
Tags:2010·august10·Cameron·concert·festival·Friends·jordan·loufest·music
Vacation memory: A view into the future
August 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · 2010, Vacation10
I went straight from vacation and into knee surgery, so I’m still going through all of the video and photos I took during our adventures this summer. I found this video that I had to share. Jordan and I were hanging out on the rocks near one of our favorite coves in Maine when Jordan [...]
Free play vs. Scheduled play
August 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · 2010, Mommy Thoughts
When I grew up I had a friend who did everything. She played piano, she danced, she did sports. I thought that was really cool but I never got a chance to play with her because she was always somewhere doing one of her activities. I had one thing. First it was dance, then piano, [...]
Helper Arm Buy-In
August 6th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010, Prosthetic
Jordan’s on track again. She was rude and obnoxious after returning to regular life from a long vacation and a week with her grandparents. To make things more challenging, I’m still healing from knee surgery and Jordan’s dad left to teach journalists in China. Luckily my mom arrived to help me care for the kids [...]
Tags:2010·aug10·helperarm·Prosthetic
Slowing Supermom
July 28th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010, Mommy Thoughts
My friends say I’m an overachiever. They’re probably right. But when I realized the running and excercise I’ve loved was leading to a lot of extra knee pain that I’ve dealt with for years… I finally decided to get it looked at. It turns out I tore my ACL and meniscus in my left knee [...]
Tags:2010·july10·mom thoughts
Vacations like these don’t happen every day
July 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · 2010, Vacation10
Jordan is the luckiest girl in the whole world. In the last two months, she’s had the chance to sleep with Dinosaurs in Chicago’s Field Museum, shop on Michigan Avenue, climb rocks along the Maine coast, play with a lobster, meet a new and special friend in Maryland, explore the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, [...]
Tags:2010·july10·Travel·vacation·vacation10
Vacation happiness
July 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · 2010, Travel, Vacation10
Jordan likes to be in charge… That’s been obvious for a while. But when you spend 24-7 with my girl, it becomes more clear how dominant she wants to be. And to be honest, most of the time I enjoy it. During our yearly trip to Maine, Jordan’s been climbing the rocks like she owns [...]
Tags:2010·july10·maine10·vacation·vacation10
Camp No Limits 2010
July 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · 2010, Camp No Limits
Jordan, Cameron and I had a really great time this year at camp. First, there were SO many more kids this year. Second, there were SO many more parents. AND there were many more activities. Jordan came away from the experience with a firm ability to zip zippers!! And she’s better at working on buttons [...]
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Camp complete!
June 30th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010, Camp No Limits
We just got back from camp and we had a lot of fun. Cameron and Jordan had great experiences, enjoyed a lot of outdoor time AND made a bunch of new friends. I have a zillion photos and videos to share, but since we’re headed out of town tomorrow for our yearly trip to Maine, [...]
Tags:2010·bethany mollenkof·camp·Camp No Limits·june10·media·st. louis post-dispatch·stephen deere
Why prosthetics?
June 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · 2010, Chicago10, Prosthetic
Jordan’s used prosthetics for a long time. We started when she was about six months old. She rolled over for the first time in a prosthetic office room. But the first helper arm didn’t last long and I knew we needed to expand our search for someone who could be creative for Jordan’s needs. At [...]
We’re leaving town… So be a better kid!
June 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · 2010, Chicago10, Stubborn
I stay pretty positive on this blog… so I have to be honest. Miss Jordan is stubborn. Really stubborn. And bossy. And her newest thing is when she doesn’t want to listen, she sits down. She just stops where she is and sits. Grrrr. To make this more difficult, we’re headed out of town. I’m [...]
Getting ready for our next helper arm
June 5th, 2010 · 3 Comments · 2010, Prosthetic
We are four days away from traveling to Chicago to build Jordan’s next helper arm. Jordan’s excited about it for two reasons: 1) It’s going to have an “elbow” and 2) It’s going to look the way Jordan wants it to look. And that’s what we did today. We picked out her own fabric for [...]
Tags:2010·jordan·june10·prosthetic4
Time together again
May 22nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · 2010, SammysFriends
Jordan and I had a chance to go to a picnic with a whole bunch of limb different kids and their families this weekend. It was a lot like the impromptu gathering we had last year except this time it was a little further away from our house and we had even more families! It [...]
Tags:2010·Friends·jordan·may10·Outside·picnic·Sammy's Friends
Saying goodbye one more time
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · 2010, Family
This past weekend my family traveled to Kansas to bury my aunt who bravely battled ovarian cancer for more than ten years. We celebrated her life with a great family gathering in a small town at a large Mexican restaurant. The kids didn’t get to attend my aunt’s memorial service, so I’m glad they could [...]
