Perspective

These last few days have been a blur for me. Just last week we drove through Houston and spent the night with friends of ours.  We actually got very lost on our way to our friends and saw much more of the Houston area than we had thought we would.  We traveled many of the…

Special Needs Beware!

Our family was seated at the very back of the enormous dining room in the Drury Hotel in Greenville, South Carolina at about 8:15am this morning eating our breakfast. I was feeding Ruby, our beautiful non-verbal 7-year-old African princess who also happens to be a quadriplegic in a wheelchair. Part way through breakfast we found…

I Need You Guys

Oh friends.  I need you guys so I am coming humbly asking for your help. There is a beautiful little baby girl in Uganda who is very, very, very sick.  She has a bleed in the brain and the missionary doctors who performed our Ruby’s first surgery have said her bleed is inoperable.  Which means,…

So How is He *Really* Doing?

Adopting an aging out son can sound pretty terrifying to most.  Of course, adopting a child in a wheelchair probably sounds equally scary!   We are grateful for the privilege of sharing the story of our son in hopes that others will see that although teenagers and wheelchairs aren’t without their own unique challenges, we…