Happy Saturday! Instead of being out marching with the protesters, I spent my morning volunteering at the kids’ school like I do every week. It’s almost exactly one month until showtime! Meanwhile, we’re on the steady path into winter performance season. The kids just had their school concert, my older one has an audition, then both of my concerts, the school musical, and All-County music festivals. It’s not really all that different from having a family full of athletes, I suppose. 🙂
In other news, I’m just over halfway done (I think) with my edits on Keeping the Faith. This one looks like it’ll be shorter than the other two after all. I’m still sharing from the first chapter. The last few weeks, I’ve been posting snippets of Micah’s visit with his sister-in-law. Some readers correctly guessed the baby’s health issues, but for anyone who didn’t, here you go.
She sighed. “I don’t want to make the same mistakes my parents did, but I’m not sure how else to do things. At least he doesn’t appear to be prone to the same sorts of problems Cat had.”
“Robbie does seem to be generally pretty healthy.”
“Healthy and with the energy of all the rest combined.”
On cue, Robbie wriggled and kicked, so Micah set him back on the floor. He scooted off, and both Micah and LR watched him go in silence. Like his uncle, Robbie had hemophilia, but his brother did not. They hadn’t yet had the girls tested to find out if they carried the gene.
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poor Robbie.
Fortunately, treatment has come a long way. Robbie will grow up with about as average a childhood as any, just with a few restrictions.
Vivid and powerful character description!
Thank you! 🙂
Sounds like Robbie is quite a handful, even without the complications.
LOL, yes, he definitely is.
It’s not Robbie I’m worried about 😀 It’s his Uncle Cat who has me on the edge of my seat. So many things that can go wrong. I mean, there is BOUND to come a time when he’ll have to wear an outfit without matching converse
Ha! Yeah, Robbie’s fine. Cat is not currently in a position to need matching converse, however.
Can’t be easy for the parents.
Having kids with special needs and knowing how to balance how much to protect them is always tricky.
Does he have baby Converse yet? 🙂
(Don’t know how I missed commenting on this – I read it last week.)
LOL! You’ll see. 😉 Actually, Micah has something in mind just for him.
I wonder what “mistakes her parents made” she’s referring to.
In her shoes, many women might have been too scared to have a child. But yes, as someone else said, treatments have come a long way. There’s a top class cyclist with hemophilia riding the Tour de France…
Her parents were overprotective of her brother. Though in fairness, he had lots of other health problems, and treatments weren’t as good even in the late 1980s as they are now. My kids’ issues are different, but I know how hard it is to balance making sure their needs are met with letting them have room to grow/just be kids/solve things on their own. Very much a day at a time.