Mommy.... It's my favorite name

  Today was a long day! Jimmy and I left early this morning to drive to Mercy Children’s in Kansas City, MO only to   return back home all in the same day. BUT…… Today is the first day in a long time that my favorite ten-year-old could hear ‘normal’ for the first time!   It was just Jimmy and me in the car for 10 hours and I would do it all again tomorrow to hear him say as we walked outside for the first time, “mom, I can hear you so well! Mom, I love your voice!” For anyone who has listened to my worry, my fears and my tears as I tried to work through what was the best path forward for my son, THANK YOU!!! Today was it!!! This all started 18-months ago when we received a note home from school saying that Jimmy had failed two hearing test and that we needed to see a third party audiologist. I truly thought nothing of this, ‘maybe he had an ear infection? Or likely just wasn’t paying attention because he’s an 8-year-old boy?’ But In June of 2020 (still the height of ...

Oh this little boy. A rare photo of him solo and WITH a real smile. My middle little, you’ll never know how much I have worried and worked to make sure you never felt “the middle kid syndrome”. And this is something I will continue to do for the rest of time. You have the kindest heart and purest soul, you’ll do anything for anyone without ever being prompted or asked. This is much like your dad, the two of you have a generosity that is hard to find. You have grown up so much this year, started kindergarten and (not surprising) made many new friends. To know you is to love you. You are authentically yourself in all you do and all you say. I hope you keep this trait, you do not waiver your decision based on others opinion and that makes me very proud. Whatever you say you genuinely mean, nothing is a ‘show’ with you or to be a people pleaser.   For being a six year old little boy your ability to go from wild and crazy to nurturing and paternal at the drop of a hat anyt...