I am always amazed when others seem shocked because they witness Isaac doing the most simple things.
There was a time when I would feel a bit angry…angry because folks just seemed to expect so little.
These days I am mostly annoyed…and sometimes amazed.
I am most annoyed when this ‘amazement’ and ‘shock’ comes from educators.  I am a little disappointed when it comes from other parents.
Let me give you an example of what I mean…we actually had surprising and dazzling moment’ happen today.
Here is what happened.
I picked up isaac an hour early …

A few days ago our family traveled down south to visit family.  I got to see my grandmother…who is more like a mother to me.  I spent my entire life growing up underneath her roof.  Right now my grandma is is a nursing home.  She has Alzheimer’s disease.  People always ask me, ” Does she still remember you?”  I believe that she does.  I also believe that Alzheimer’s is a very cruel disease.
The thing that I believe is particularly cruel right now is this…I get the impression hat Mama is …

I recently had someone say to me, ” If you are too beautiful, people will hate you.”
This statement was made when referring to a picture that I had posted online.  These words have been nagging at me for a little while now.  You see, I am guilty of spending much of my life shrinking so as to avoid the ‘hatred’ of others.  My mother would say to me,”  God made you and He made you beautiful.  If someone has a problem with that, then you tell them to just take …

child on a motorcycle merry-go-round

There is MORE New research suggesting that brains can and do heal!
That’s a good thing…because here in Indiana, it’s okay to ride a motorcycle without a helmet!
For some reason, the state of South Carolina has a disproportionate number of younger people who have strokes.  This statistic puts the University of South Carolina on the cusp of new research regarding strokes.  The university is currently following many patients who have been stroke victims…and some of the results have been released in a paper published in the Journal …

children at bus stop
Here in our neighborhood elementary school, Isaac is the first little boy with Down syndrome to be allowed to be in the classroom with other children his age.
The vast majority of children with Down syndrome are sent to a different school.  The school is a different elementary school inside the district.  They spend their school days in collected in a classroom that is away from the regular children.
Isaac had unique learning needs.  He has his own unique learning style.
But so every human being!
Right now one of the …