Return of the Mom
If you had told me 18 years ago that I would be a mother of five, working full time and living to advocate for children with additional needs, I would have laughed. In fact, years before I became a mom, a friend, an educator, told me that she believed that one day she'd serve the world by parenting a child with additional needs. Not me. In fact, as I worked through college, in education, I thought special needs were well beyond anything I could handle. Yet here I sit, working in the field of autism, working to support families and realizing I wouldn't be here. Tonight I woke, recounting the conversation I had with a family I serve. I tossed and turned and after a moment or five, I decided to go downstairs and read. I grabbed a book by Matthew Kelly, Holy Moments . As I read, I realized all these moments I have fought on being a mom, not walking in the path I intended were really opportunities to live and collaborate with God. I'm not the mom who will let someone say, &q