Choreographer's Cuisine

As most of you know, we are leaving for Kentucky today! I am so excited to go and see everything. I love traveling to new  places and seeing new sites. Mom's got quite the itinerary planned. However, traveling with Puppy doesn't go so well. He hates the car, hotels are a pain, it'll be hot (42 degrees C.)  I dropped him off at the sitters last night. They've looked after him before so it was encouraging to see him run to where they keep his water dish; unfortunately it wasn't down yet! Leaving him was easier than I thought it would be. I missed him most in bed last night. My legs are used to having him against them so were rather jumpy last night. I didn't get much sleep. Oh well I can rest in the car, I probably won't sleep but you never know. Time is ticking. It's almost time to go on another adventure. I will miss my baby boy, I feel like I'm missing my right arm or something without him. But I will have a good time and he'll have a good...

A lot of people view September as a new season of life or a new beginning. It's the end of summer and the beginning of a new school year for children. Others look at the New Year as that new beginning, setting New Year's Resolutions. but a new season or a new beginning can start anytime of the year. Yesterday was one of those new beginnings for me. Awhile back I was at a fundraiser for an organization called Citizen Advocacy. While there, I heard  amazing testimony from a young man about a part of the organization called Lifetime Networks. I had heard of Lifetime Networks through one of my colleagues but had dismissed it thinking it was there to help a person with a disability move out of home and live on their own. I don't want that at this  stage of my life. At the fundraiser the testimony was from a young man just like me. He didn't want to move out but he realized his mom couldn't be his full time caretaker anymore. Despite the fact that this young man had ...

Mom, Anna-Lee and I used this video as a devotional the other day.  It is the philosophy of an Irish music group called Rend Collective. I couldn't do it justice so turn your speakers on and put it to full screen and have a listen.  https://www.youtube.com/user/RendCollective

I hate change. Anyone who know me well is probably laughing right now at the truth of that statement. Things have been changing at an incredibly high speed around here for the last while. My grandparents are downsizing and getting rid of stuff. They gave my sister a new bed from their place, in turn my sister's bed became my bed to replace my hospital bed that was falling apart. (Literally.)  I just got a new chair too. This bed that my sister passed on to me used to be my bed before my Granny gave me the hospital bed after her friend passed away years ago. When we used the bed before, I was younger and lighter, I would park my chair in the corner and my Dad would just lift me into bed. Now, I'm too big for that. We were having problems transferring to this bed as my chair couldn't get close enough to the bed as a result there was a gap between the bed and the chair that made me feel unsafe transferring, which in turn led to my orientation flying off to never never la...

Last week my French teacher asked me a question. "Looking at your life up to this point, what thing amazes you the most?" (Monica paraphrase)  As we do each week, he sent it to me by email and gave me the week to think about it. There are a couple things  I could have answered with, and all would have been equally valid and true. My answer, however, was simple. "I'm alive." I don't think my teacher was expecting that answer. But it's true and it's amazing and it's God. I mean, come on. Even the doctors and nurses who saw me in the hospital say I shouldn't be alive, shouldn't know my parents, shouldn't be doing ANY of what I'm doing today. It will be 24 years in June since the trauma that turned our lives, my life upside down. Do I wish that it had never happened? No, not really. Sometimes I do wish my body would do what it's meant to, but honestly I have rubbed shoulders with people who I never would have met otherwise...

"You are good, and what You do is good..." Psalm 119:68a When I last updated you on my dyslexia program, I  explained the three different parts of this orientation - visual, auditory and balance. When I went to see Carl over a year ago to do this program, we had to do an adapted version of the balance portion of the program seated with the seat belt off.  Over the last year I have been trying to build up enough strength in my legs to be able to do a second adapted version of the balance portion in standing When we thought I was ready to stand for about five minutes at a time, we called Carl and he came out to the house. He started by putting a pair of headphones on me and having me listen to a ping sound in sitting, pulling it to my orientation point above and behind my head. After I was able to pull it up about three times he had me start the sound on the point and end the sound on the point. This was all fairly easy as this was what I'd done with him last year....

Happy New Year. I don't normally set New Year's Resolutions, however this year I decided to set one. I have felt for a while that I needed to try harder. God intended there to be six days of work and the seventh to be a day of rest. Sometimes, I want there to be six days of rest and one of work. So, my New Year's Resolution is to discipline myself to work harder.  To try to truly live according to Genesis 1, work six days and rest on the seventh.  Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.  And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. Gen 2:1-3