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Archive for September, 2008

Friends

We have an open door policy in our house and all of the kids know that. Every weekend our house is full of neighbourhood kids coming over to play with the computer games, toys, etc., so you will always find parents calling us up asking, Is David over at your place?, Yes, he’s here!

It’s great. I often reflect on how lucky our kids are to be in a community where their friends can just drop over unannounced and have a fun time.

I get sad when Daniel asks me, William gets invited over to other people’s places, why don’t I?

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What? A Wheelchair?

When Daniel was 5 years old and just starting school, he primarily used a Kay Walker to get around. Surprisingly enough, we had never once thought of him using a wheelchair as his main form of mobility – so the next comment came as a shock …

We were still in a frame of mind of We’re lucky, he’s not that disabled as to require a wheelchair. In hindsight, up until that point, he had been small and light enough to carry around or use a stroller.

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Emotional Process

Some friends asked me the other day, as to how I was finding writing a blog, about my family’s experiences and, in particular, writing about such an emotionally raw topic.

They suggested that my response was a blog topic in itself, so here goes …

Each day I take one step at a time. I have high points and I have low points. At the end of each day I remind myself of the good things that happened, no matter how small and insignificant they may appear to others. I then take that day’s emotions and put them in a (mental) box and place them on a (mental) shelf and move on to the next day … never really looking back at the previous day’s events, always looking forward to the future.

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