A New Life and Time!
/Hello all!
Life has been big and wonderful for us this last year! Yes, covid, and crazy world, and everything else, but in our house it has been a magical time!
Our family has grown in the most wonderful way. In the year since I have been active we have been blessed beyond measure with our first, much anticipated, and absolutely beautiful little child!
Internet, meet Violet!
She is our wonderful little girl and it turns out, Violet has Down Syndrome, and the amazing thing is how delighted we are!
Even when we were waiting for Violet to arrive we had somehow known there was something bright and brilliantly precious about her. We could tell she was lovely, gentle, kind and something very different from what we were expecting. So when the delivery pediatrician let us know she was likely a Downs Baby we were not so much surprised as we were overwhelmed with love.
We have fallen utterly in love with this little girl! Among all the amazing and miraculous things that have happened in her first few weeks is the realization how perfectly she fits into our lives. From my husband’s amazing work from home job, to my experience with special ed and development, to the wonderful, knowledgeable, and supportive friends and family that surround us. God has blessed us so immensely with so many good things, and we have been searching for where to pour them out. And then she came along. It is like there was a Violet-shaped hole in our lives for God to drop her right into.
If you don’t know much about Downs children they are an absolute treasure. Beautiful, kind and not without their challenges, but both of us feel overwhelmed by the honor of being chosen to raise such a precious little girl, and we are excited to share Little Violet’s journey!
In the last few weeks I have found having a little one I love so much makes me want to keep working to make the world a kinder and more thoughtful place. So now that we have our feet under us as new parents I am interested in starting writing again!
I am going to be dividing my time between two projects.
1 - I am going to be working at continuing my series on philosophy of liberty! It will be slow going because my time to write is exceptionally limited, but I do love this project and will be working on it when our lovely one’s schedule allows!
2 - Welcome to Gaming - This was a project I really finished back in late 2008/early 2009 and I never did find a publisher. It would be a shame to never put it out there in some way, so I have decided I am going to try to take about a chapter a week and clean it up for a post right here!
Thanks again and I hope you enjoy!
Thinky Sushi