With Kind Words

Thank you all for the kind words of support as Steve and Declan continue to heal.

Griffin is off in the woods with his friends for the weekend and I am a little jealous!

So I took some time to reenergize with a hike through today.

Highly recommended.

With the heavy snowfall in Chicago this morning my husband and I decided to keep Declan home today.

The school did not cancel classes which is understandable. So many kids and families like ours rely on the consistency of a schedule. Declan tends to regress when he has time off. This last winter session was rough. He reverted to self injury and was often inconsolable. It's extremely hard for us to explain to him why he's not at school.

My instinct was to send him to school today to keep him on schedule while keeping in mind that we'll be keeping him home Wednesday, possibly Thursday.

Then Steve and I started watching the news coverage of road conditions.

Steve asked "What if the van slides off the road?"

Nothing more needed to be said.

We instantly imagined our beautiful non-verbal boy trapped in a van on the side of the highway somewhere between home and his school in the northern suburbs.

Cartoons and grilled cheese sandwiches it is!!

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