Just for the record, we make this stuff up as we go. We have no idea what we’re doing. Not for real.

However, we are quite practiced at this improvisation. Someone once told me in some official capacity, that it takes doing something 40 times for it to become a habit. We hit that mark daily, so it is well ingrained.

With that in mind, we’ve been pushing Monkey around in a variety of jogging strollers for the last several years. He has grown quite a bit in the last year and we recently had the revelation that he might not be so comfortable in these.

I guess we’ve always known that he would need a wheelchair. We’ve just been in denial, because then we would have a kid in a wheelchair and for all that we’ve been through, some things are just harder to accept. So being the parents of the year that we are, we got him one.

He loves it. His brother and sister love it. They take him everywhere. Princess was so excited the first day it was in the house! She said, “Now Bubba can come and play with me wherever I go!”  The love that his brother and sister have for him is a constant reminder to us of God’s love for us.

We are so grateful for this life. It is not easy some days but the good far outweigh the bad.

Most of the time we are genuinely just winging it. Sometimes we get it right and other times we’re a little slower to come around. Fortunately, it is not frequently at the expense of our kids. We find that we are often harder on ourselves than we need to be but at least one of our kid’s daily survival depends on it.