Posts Tagged ‘may10’
Warm weather and outside fun
The pools opened this weekend… And the kids were excited. I captured this awesome picture of Miss Jordan’s happiness. She and her brother got to go to a pool two days in a row. Jordan is not a jump-in-and-go kind of pool-goer just yet. She needs to be convinced to go in. Once she’s in,…
Read More +What's going on here?
For the second time in a month, Jordan dealt with multiple days of high fevers… and no other symptoms. It’s pretty annoying when she gets sent home from school for a fever and there’s really nothing we can do about it. She really doesn’t seem to mind the high fever except for when it hits…
Read More +Trying to help a bit
Ever since I posted about my thoughts about young amputees in Haiti, I’ve been on a quest to see how I can help… And an idea popped into my mind: Camp No Limits. It’s the awesome camp the kids and I attended last year and will attend again next month in Missouri. There will be…
Read More +Time together again
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…
Read More +MUD
I am clearly more permissive when it comes to having a second child and dirt. Earlier this week I took Jordan to her brother’s baseball game. It’s rained a lot around here, so the kid play area was covered in puddles. But that didn’t stop Jordan and her friends from playing and playing and eventually…
Read More +Saying goodbye one more time
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…
Read More +A sweet Mother's Day
We had a busy weekend that started off getting up early to attend my Aunt Jan’s burial in a small eastern Kansas town. We snagged my mom and brother and brought them home for a few day. (My mom lives in Florida and my brother lives in Washington, DC) So we’ve had a chance to…
Read More +Session completion!
Jordan wrapped up another awesome Spring equestrian therapy session. She scored and AWESOME huge ribbon to celebrate her great work. She was so super proud and extra excited to get a ribbon that was blue. She missed her class last week when she fell into a five-day stretch of a strange high fever that would…
Read More +Stories for Haiti
I love connecting with families of children with limb differences and I crave learning stories from adult amputees to see if there are lessons I can share with Jordan. Not long ago I was invited to participate in a group called Amputee Empowerment Partners. The group is connected to the larger amputee world compared to…
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