I never signed up to have disabled children. I guess most women don't -except for those unique families who see it as a calling or ministry. I dreamed of having a house full of healthy, happy children-perfect and normal in every way. And that's exactly what I got. Until we had a devastating car accident.
In a matter of one second I went from being a mother of 4 healthy children to the mother of 4 children, two of which were now severely brain injured. Funny how quickly and completely life can change.
Caring for disabled children was one of those things I neither felt graced to do or ever wanted to do. All that I had heard from other mothers who had disabled children just sounded too hard and I quickly came to the conclusion that I was not cut out to do it.
Funny how quickly our perspective can change.
Funny how quickly our priorities can get re-adjusted.
Funny how when the rubber hits the road, you find yourself willing and wanting to do things you never imagined. You may leave skid marks along the way. There may be times when the rubber leaves the road again and times when the stench from the burnt rubber is almost unbearable. But eventually we will all reach our destination.
This blog is a collection of the thoughts, trials, victories and revelations I have had as a mother of two brain injured children. It is a blatantly honest, sometimes raw re-telling of where I've been and where I am and where I hope to be in the future.
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