Life as a Leach

I often think back on my life and realize how God has prepared me for so long to be a special needs mom.  During last night's insomnia, I was thinking about what I would say to a younger me. 17 year old me, it's not by accident that you are working with that student with special needs and a trach each day as a guidance office assistant.  God is exposing you to trach life and allowing you to see how much more there is to a person than his or her special needs.  You are able to see that having a trach is just another way to breathe, and it's not as big of a deal as it seems.  You will draw upon that often in the first few years of Abby's life. Young, married, pregnant with your first child me, you sat on your old couch one night in your tiny little house and told Matt that you felt like God had called you to be a parent of a child with special needs.  You didn't know what that meant at the time and wouldn't for nearly four more years.  Matt will remind yo...