Rachel just returned for her 3rd semester in the Missouri State Bear POWER program. She truly loves being a college girl. While she was home, we were cleaning out her notebooks. Actually, it was mostly me cleaning out her notebooks. […]
We brought Rachel home from her first semester of college Tuesday. We are excited to head out to Southern California to speak at a conference in a few weeks and needed to update her “I Love My Life” presentation. We’ve […]
At the end of the school year, I call it IEP Season. I notice an upsurge in social media requests and pleas for help in getting a child included in the gen ed classroom. I also seem to get more […]
When we moved to Olathe, Kansas 10 years ago, I met the Palangi family. Their daughter Ella, who like Rachel has Down syndrome, was a toddler and has now grown into a beautiful young lady who is embracing middle school […]
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Rachel has just five more days of high school and two of those are finals. It has been a journey for sure. In grade school, each year I would write a note to her classroom teacher […]
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) […]
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 […]
Rachel – Was it really 18 years ago today that I awoke at 4:30 am feeling uncomfortable? Yes, at 8:40 PM 18 years ago this day, a little bundle of pink joy was welcomed into the world by loving parents, […]
Rachel is getting her tonsils out tomorrow. They called Monday to go over the intake list. About five minutes into the interview, the nurse says “Did you say she has Down syndrome or she has been tested for it?” This […]