2711, 2014

What can I find to be thankful for?

  Thanksgiving 2014.  Ashlynn is 5 and Jace is 2.  I love these little guys.  This morning we made our annual thankful Turkeys.  This year Jace answered yes or no to my suggestions, and Ashlynn for the first time came up with her own with little difficulty. She’s thankful for her mommy (tear), daddy, Jace, and cousins.  She loves seeing her cousins and will get to see them today. I

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The day I realized apraxia has been a blessing.
0705, 2014

The day I realized apraxia has been a blessing.

Yes, you read the title correct.  I just called apraxia a blessing.  It took me a long time to get to this point.  I certainly didn’t feel it was a blessing here 2.5 years, or here, New worries, or here IEP on the other side of the table, or here Background and suspicions.  I remember shouting “I HATE APRAXIA” “APRAXIA SUCKS!!” everytime I watched my daughter struggle.  Slowly but surely though,

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