“I thank my God upon every remembrance of you…” Phil. 1:3 The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. Zephaniah 3:17 Godspeed, BLR. We’ll be waiting for you.
Archive for August, 2009
Here Comes Goodbye
Posted in Uncategorized on August 28, 2009 | 38 Comments »
Date Night
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autsim, marriage, special needs on August 26, 2009 | 17 Comments »
A friend and fellow special needs mom informed us that she was coming over to watch the kids so that Brandon and I could grab a quiet dinner together. She came over, we put the kids to bed, and the three of us ended up talking for over an hour about our struggles in parenting [...]
Lengths
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, horse boy, iraq, military on August 24, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Months ago I read a post by Andrea that really resonated with me. She posted a video clip about The Horse Boy – the story of a father who traveled all the way to Mongolia so that his son with autism could ride horses and visit a shaman. While we cannot all hop on a plane to Mongolia, the [...]
Love up to your eyelashes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged affection, autism, butterfly kiss, love on August 20, 2009 | 19 Comments »
“You must remember this A kiss is still a kiss a sigh is just a sigh…” -Louis Armstrong Sometimes there are things in life you convince yourself that you miss. You may not really miss it, but because other people have it and you do not, you decide that maybe you miss it. My [...]
Covered
Posted in Uncategorized on August 17, 2009 | 28 Comments »
A couple months ago I sent a text message to my friend Carrie. “Headed to the hospital with my twin. Please pray.” The text I got back simply said, “Covered.” And I felt it. This Sunday, Brandon had the opportunity to go before the church and share about his upcoming deployment to Iraq. (The [...]
Precious Junk
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Broken. Everything in this house is broken. She has the opposite of the Midas touch. Things crumble and shatter at her fingertips – the dreams, the dishes, the treasured things, our hearts. She’s a gale, moving too fast. She does not know that she leaves us behind in the wreckage. She exposes the hairline [...]
She said
Posted in Uncategorized on August 13, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Last week while visiting her grandparents in Michigan, Hope sat in the sunroom reading “Potty Time With Elmo.” So inspired was she by Elmo that she peed in her pants right there on the spot. (Yes, she’s in big girl underwear now. Yes, my diapering days are alllmmmost over!) After Hope, the chair and the [...]
By the time the milk goes sour
Posted in Uncategorized on August 11, 2009 | 33 Comments »
“I can do this. I am woman. I am strong. I am independent. I am capable. Birthed two babies after all. Survived typhoid fever in Africa. Lived through organic chemistry in college. Twice. So what if you’re leaving in 2 weeks on a 15-month deployment. I am not going to get wrapped up in [...]
Oh, the Antics!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged autism, bubbles, hiding place, hoarding, sunburned faces on August 10, 2009 | 22 Comments »
Lately, Rhema is into hiding things, namely, food. My mother-in-law was visiting from Michigan last week. She went to fix herself a nice, quiet cup of tea, but when she opened the teapot she found a Ziploc bag containing (what we think were) awfully smelly, blackened, fuzzy strawberries. No telling how long they’d been there. [...]
A Good Bad Result
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged diazepam, ESES, landau kleffner, MST, seizure disorder, valium on August 8, 2009 | 24 Comments »
I’ve tried in vain to organize my thoughts over Rhema’s test results from her hospital stay earlier this week. The good news is that her EEG came back clean. The not-so-good news is that the only medication that seems to stop Rhema’s seizure-like activity is high-dose diazepam/valium. There is a risk that Rhema will become [...]
