Sarah: Cackie’s eyes are open.
Me: Yay Catherine! Let’s give her claps.
Sarah: It doesn’t work.
Me: What doesn’t work?
Sarah: Her eyes.
Me: That’s right. Her eyes are broken.
Sarah: Yeah… She can’t see me.
And now I know what it’ll be like when I realize Sarah knows Catherine is blind.
I don’t care who you are, when your daughter loses her first baby tooth, it’s an event. Catherine’s lower left tooth had been wobbling in her mouth for a couple of weeks. But today, we finally determined it was loose…
Picking out a wheelchair with your daughter is a lot like picking out a prom dress — there are loads of choices, it doesn’t happen often, you imagine the time she’ll have in it and hope it’ll be magical. And…
I find the way the world works to be quite remarkable at times. Frequently, actually. This week has been especially difficult at work. Yesterday, I had a late afternoon meeting out of the office, and rather than go back when…
Looks like the prayers are working – ugh. Catherine had a bigger “tremor” last night and they told Brian today that it looked like a seizure. They told him we would probably start a new medication tomorrow. Just now, she…
Wow! Some days you’re just thankful you got up and had the stuff on your calendar that was there. Catherine didn’t have an aid on Tuesday, so I got to play that part at school. I actually love the excuse…
Catherine got to surf! Yep. I haven’t even ever tried surfing. I wimped out in Tamarindo, Costa Rica for some stupid reason, but my five-and-a-half year old (cuz that’s how she’d say it) got to surf when we were on…
