To Summer / Was Re: OT speech

[Guest guest]

Summer, you continue to be an inspiration. Thank you for telling us

a little of your story. It takes great strength to succesfully

parent a child with autism, and even more strength to try and heal

the sick children we all are attempting to do with great effort on

the SCD.

Motherhood is difficult enough for any woman, and those of on this

list face additional large challenges. Sometimes they seem

insurmountable. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wonders every

day " Am I up to this challenge? "

Some of us have had to carve a path ourselves, figuring out each

day's answers fresh every morning. Occasionally, we find other

mothers in whom we recognize the strength and grace and wisdom we so

badly want to possess ourselves. Inspiration comes rarely, quietly,

sometimes hard to see, but so welcome when it appears. It is mothers

like you to whom we look in those dark days when inspiration and

answers seem lost. Sometimes the answer is " I don't have the

answer ... look harder for your own answer - search, question, seek,

research, try and try again! " Sometimes the answer is so simple as

to escape us in our desperation: " Give the kids to their dad for a

few hours and get some sleep! "

So Summer, thank you for taking time every day to shed some warm

light and intelligence on this little corner of the internet. Have a

wonderful Mother's Day with your beautiful boys. They are so

fortunate to have been graced with you for a mother.

Suzanne

[Guest guest]

Summer, you continue to be an inspiration. Thank you for telling us

a little of your story. It takes great strength to succesfully

parent a child with autism, and even more strength to try and heal

the sick children we all are attempting to do with great effort on

the SCD.

Motherhood is difficult enough for any woman, and those of on this

list face additional large challenges. Sometimes they seem

insurmountable. I'm sure I'm not the only one who wonders every

day " Am I up to this challenge? "

Some of us have had to carve a path ourselves, figuring out each

day's answers fresh every morning. Occasionally, we find other

mothers in whom we recognize the strength and grace and wisdom we so

badly want to possess ourselves. Inspiration comes rarely, quietly,

sometimes hard to see, but so welcome when it appears. It is mothers

like you to whom we look in those dark days when inspiration and

answers seem lost. Sometimes the answer is " I don't have the

answer ... look harder for your own answer - search, question, seek,

research, try and try again! " Sometimes the answer is so simple as

to escape us in our desperation: " Give the kids to their dad for a

few hours and get some sleep! "

So Summer, thank you for taking time every day to shed some warm

light and intelligence on this little corner of the internet. Have a

wonderful Mother's Day with your beautiful boys. They are so

fortunate to have been graced with you for a mother.

Suzanne