One Girl Changed Another Girl’s Life – Forever

I have a guest blogger today, Katie Locke, MCD, CCC-SLP.  A few month ago, Katie posted this on an Instagram picture of Rachel: “I wouldn’t be where I am today without Rachel. So proud of her.”  She tells it better than […]

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Happy New Year with My 2017 Blogs!

Happy 2018.  I ran across this quote that I posted on a previous timeline.  It’s a good one for us all to remember as we continue this journey called life.  “You can easily judge the character of a man (or woman) […]

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Ringing Out This Year with TheSassySouthernGal’s Top Blogs

I know you are just waiting for TheSassySouthernGal’s top blogs for 2017!  Your comments, shares and views tell me a lot.  Let me know if you pick up on your favorite themes from these Top Ten Blogs from 2017?  Oh […]

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Soft, or Not So Soft, Benefits of Inclusion?

I must first proclaim that we are down to one semester.  Rachel successfully finished semester one of her senior year.  She had a great semester. Powder puff touchdowns, homecoming dances, volleyball serves, and of course classes. She worked hard and […]

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Volleyball, Inclusion, Awareness and Acceptance

April 2014 – We had Rachel’s official transition to high school meeting. There were 15 people there including Rachel and a variety of teachers, administrators, counselors and case managers from both her middle school and high school plus Jonathan and […]

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Honoring a Teacher Who Get’s It

A few months ago I was invited to write a letter of nomination for one of Rachel’s teachers.  Our school district’s education foundation, Olathe Public Schools Foundation,  presents Excellence in Educator Awards on a monthly basis. There other awards for […]

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What Would I Say 18 Years Later?

Happy Down Syndrome Awareness Month!  I think revisiting the question of what I would say to younger parents is a good post to celebrate our friends and loved ones with Down syndrome! Four years ago I wrote a blog called […]

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What will Rachel do Next Year?

We work in the student ministry at our church. A few years back some of the seniors said one of their sources of pressure was everyone asking what they were going to do. Historically, this is a fairly common question […]

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Shakespeare and that Inclusion Thing

Last weekend, Rachel was Strato in her high school’s production of Julius Caesar. If I counted correctly, she had seven lines.  She was scarcely seen until the end when she appeared in a big way in one of the final […]

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Will Rachel be a Teacher?

Happy National Teacher Appreciation Week, at our school anyhow.  I thought this would be an appropriate time to do a little catch-up on Rachel’s year. It was about a year ago this time that we found out she would be […]

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