I love that really the only thing Lucy asked for for Christmas was tickets to go to the symphony. Well, that and sharpie markers (ha!) but the symphony was her biggest wish. She wanted to have the sound of all those instruments harmonizing together wash over her. She was pretty delighted when she opened the…
Lucy does not like crowds. She’s also not a huge fan of boys. And also, dressing up is one of her worst nightmares. But, she loves experiences. And that girls is as social as they come. So she has been enamored by all the hype around dances. The group dates. The fun activities. Being together…
I don’t know that I will ever hear “O Holy Night” in the same way again after Lucy’s MCO Christmas concert. The words “Fall on your knees, Oh hear the angel voices” has woven gold through my heart this Christmas season. But let’s back up to when we were sitting in that concert hall filled…
Lucy, lucky girl, usually gets to share her birthday with conference weekend. I tried to name this post “Lucy’s Birthday and Conference Weekend” and it looks like I already have several other posts with that same title. (So I was so clever and switched it up a bit…ha!) I wrote seventeen things I love about…
It’s tricky for teenagers with special needs to get jobs. So we are so grateful Lucy is at a fantastic job-readiness summer camp.
We have some big news to share. Something we have really, really been praying for: Lucy’s exciting acceptance into the FBC summer program.
Vision loss makes it really difficult to play the piano. My sister taught Lucy a great way to start playing piano by ear.
The other day I was thinking about miracles. And their evolution. Remember how Lucy’s vision teachers took special care to enlarge her homework worksheets like this? Lucy is holding one measly worksheet enlarged into a novel up there. It wasn’t a cakewalk for those teachers to do all that enlarging, especially when they had to…
Oh there is so much I want to write about. How is it possible that Christmas was only a few days ago?? But since I am wrapped up with my family for a few more days, and so grateful for this time I get with them, for now here’s a post I wrote before Christmas…