They couldn’t be any more different. Coach and my son. Coach spends his afternoons and weekends coaching, instructing, and developing high school athletes into skilled baseball players. It’s his passion. He spent so much of his own life on the baseball diamond fueling his own competitive aspirations. He was drafted right out of high school by the Atlanta Braves. He was … [Read more...]
Two things I wish I knew at the time of my child’s diagnosis
When we first entered the world of special needs parenting, I thought I had gotten to skip over the hard entry. Because of adoption, we knew Zoe's diagnosis of cerebral palsy a few days before we saw her face and five months before we held her. Her diagnosis brought no surprises or dashed dreams. But then Robbie had a seizure, which led to a diagnosis of Benign Childhood Epilepsy. I broke that … [Read more...]