She writes fiction novels (her current book has 22 chapters and counting), she draws, paints, crochets, sews. She’s always creating something. I worried that downsizing our stock of creative supplies would be hard for her but she’s risen to the challenge. Today she made a bow and arrow. A few days ago she made Jonah a fishing pole. Give that girl some string and some nature and she’s good to go.
It was at dinner one night, must have been several years ago now, that this idea hit me. Taryn has issues sitting in her chair at dinner. It was going on looooong before we realized it’s related to her sensory issues. But every time we sit at the table, without fail, we are reminding her to sit in her chair correctly. She perches on the edge, sits with her knees and feet up, or just doesn’t plant her butt in the chair at all. It drives us pretty crazy. Anyway, so one night, long ago, I told her I was going to buy her some suction cup pants. She gave me one of her crazy eyed funny looks and laughed. […]
I have so many things to come blog about, updates on all of us, my and Taryn’s girls trip to New Orleans…just tons of updating. But I know if I don’t post this right now it will get lost in the shuffle.
Our sweet girl graduated from kindergarten this morning. It was so very bittersweet. She had a really rough start to her year. School started during some very dark times for our family as it was just a few months after Teagan’s vaccine reaction. We were in the midst of dealing with Taryn’s sensory issues and none of us could have anticipated just how hard the changes that school brought would be. That rough start makes me even more proud […]