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Any and all views expressed in this blog are solely that of it's creator and does not necessarily reflect the views of all families as a whole. The creator of said blog encourages parents to exercise their God-given common sense when raising children, or living life in general. What works for me an my kid, may not work for you.

Reader's Digest Background

My son Morgan was born a very healthy 8lb. 15oz. bundle! To save you the trouble of recounting all of my son's milestones (what mom doesn't love recounting those!) Morgan developed typicaly until 18 months of age. Then he quite talking. From the age of 8 to 18 months of age Morgan suffered one ear infection after another until it became so bad that yellow puss started coming out of his ear. This particular infection lasted 6 weeks while we administered inumerable antibiotics until it finally cleared and we were able to put tubes in his ears. During this infection Morgan quit talking, which we all figured would come back after his ears healed. Morgan is now 4 years old, he can count to 5, and occationaly we get a "mamma" or "pappa"(refering to my father). Morgan is on the Autism Spectrum.
It took quite a while to get the diagnosis, partialy because I am a single mother and my son was on state medical with limited resourses to doctors that could give the diagnosis. "Well, he certainly seems autistic, but I am not going to put that on paper." And partialy due to the fact that we wanted to assume it is anything other than autism. Hearing loss, developmental delay, whatever, just don't make my son a statistic. Well, since we were given the diagnosis less than a year ago I am probably somewhere in the middle of the grief process!
My life is insane, wonderfully insane! I work forty hours selling mushrooms, attend and serve at my church, take care of my beautiful, well behaved child (the Lord has been lookin' out!), juggle the teachers, daycare, therapist (speech), and I am a Beauty Consultant with Mary Kay in my spare time (someone has to pay these bills!).
Why am I writing this? Because this has to make sense. Meanwhile, the moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. . . He know us far better than we know ourselves. . . . That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Romans 8:26-28 (Message)
It is my sincere hope and prayer that sense will come out of this. I hope this gives help to those who will come after me, because the numbers are increasing. And I pray that the answers will be found so that our children can live in the fullness of life that Jesus came to give us all.