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Raising a child with special needs is a challenge.  Often, I think, "Oh, we're finally making headway."  Then, I get a report.  An evaluation.  The latest one marks Brother at a 7 year old level on some things.  I won't get into what items here, as I don't want to violate his privacy too much.  It's not a HUGE thing, but it's enough to see it in writing to make me want to weep.  He struggles on a daily basis to navigate in the world while we neurotypical people just breeze on through.  I've shed many a tear for him.  I worry incessantly over his future.  He is a wonderful boy.  A teen.  New challenges keep cropping up.  Sometimes I worry that I won't be able to keep up with them.  

Two

In case you haven't heard, the Obama administration has mandated that the Catholic church and affiliated organizations should provide for free, contraceptives via their health insurance for their employers.  I am incensed that the President of this great nation would do this.  How could he?  Or as one article says, "How dare he?"  This is not about contraceptives.  If you think so, you are a blinded.  This is all about taking away rights.  If this right to our freedom of religion is trampled on now, it will be worse later.  There will be more and more taken away.  

Three

Doom and gloom, huh?  That's how I've been feeling.  Sometimes I feel the walls are crumbling.  What walls?  The walls I've erected to keep all the stressors compartmentalized.  Brother, deployment, car accident, grief unexplored, reintegration.  Just lots and lots of stress.  I'm afraid of it all boiling over.  Pray for me?

Four

The spring ballet season is in full swing.  I know that company rehearsals start next week.  I'm excited about what will be coming.  We're discussing costume ideas.  I'm doing research.  This is the FUN part for me.  Besides seeing my beautiful girls dance.  I just love it all.

Five

I have a special intention that needs prayers.  Saint John of God, please pray for us.

Six

Ben is off for the next three weeks.  It will be good for the children to have him home.  I'm sure they all thought they'd be off from school the whole time, but I had to disabuse them of that notion.  I did tell them that if they worked extra hard and did extra stuff each day, they could take the last week of his leave off from school.

Seven

I am actually making a craft from something I pinned on Pinterest.  Are you on it?  It's a wonderful world of visual yumminess.  I'll post pictures once I'm done.  I didn't get enough stuff to finish it.  That's on tomorrow's agenda.