Your love is a symphony All around me, running through me Your love is a melody Underneath me, running to me ~Switchfoot, Your Love Is a Song . My friend JoyMama has a darling daughter Joy who is Rhema’s “sister across the way.” Both our girls are window-dancers and are usually up to the same [...]
Archive for July, 2011
Autism, epilepsy and song
Posted in Ordinary Miracles, tagged autism, eeg, epilepsy, landau kleffner syndrome on July 28, 2011 | 22 Comments »
Semper ubi sub ubi
Posted in Waste Material on July 26, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Hope: “I have a joke for you. Knock knock.” Me: “Who’s there?” Hope: “Underpants!!!!” (insert sinister laugh) . For some reason it just happens to be Hope’s favorite word. Seriously I thought I’d avoided this kind of “humor” by having girls. Last week Hope had a field trip to the beach. She wanted to wear [...]
Learning to Speak
Posted in Uncategorized on July 22, 2011 | 17 Comments »
I’m told the girl’s got some new academic programs at school. I am excited because this means progress! One of her new programs is learning to answer a social question. The question? What is your name. What is your name?? Reality flattens me, the air rushing out of my balloon like a high-pitched whine. Rhema cannot answer [...]
The help
Posted in Ordinary Miracles on July 20, 2011 | 23 Comments »
I blame it on the Miralax. We had a long drive, and on the way, my girl soiled her pants. At home she speed-waddled to the bathroom and whipped off her clothes before I could stop her. It wasn’t her fault really, but somehow the floor, the sink, the toilet and the humans were covered in the [...]
The Ice Breaker
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2011 | 23 Comments »
Are you a little shy? Want to meet someone new? Looking for that great conversation starter? Need more confidence? Want to feel good about yourself? For a very small fee, my daughter will introduce you to all sorts of random people, help you make memorable memories, give you plenty to talk about, and change your life [...]
Come to Jesus
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2011 | 19 Comments »
“…And I’ll never turn away the one who comes to me.” John 6:37 My father pastors a church that’s a good distance away from where we live so we don’t get to visit as often as I’d like. But when we go there, we’re home. At the end of the service, the “doors of the [...]
How she loves
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2011 | 13 Comments »
My Rhema girl has this secret smile. I don’t know what she’s thinking, but now I know she’s loving. For so long it seemed that she could take or leave us. Her only acknowledgement of our existence seemed to be when she wanted something. Never making eye contact, she’d drag me to the refrigerator and thrust [...]
How she understands
Posted in Ordinary Miracles, tagged autism, landau kleffner, receptive language, understand on July 2, 2011 | 34 Comments »
“Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious…” ~John O’Donohue . Brandon is home for the holiday. It’s a quick visit – he’s been away on a military assignment for months and has two months left to go. He did the planes, trains and automobiles to get home. The girls and I were to [...]
