wow! this week has felt like the longest week i 've ever known. Everyone at my house has been sick with a cold of some type or another. The kids are good, but typical. I waas disappointed about the test i took and failed. I studied but my mind went blank.
I am excited about sign class, but when i watch everyone in the class, sometimes i wonder if i am in the wrong place. They all seem to be so good. I want to be an interpreter, but mostly want to communicate with my son and daughter without either of us getting frustrated. there are some times when i think that i made a mistake by going to school. Mostly when they are crying when i leave. I some how feel like i am abandoning them..I am ( in addition to my daughter Melissa) the only one who can sign a little.
I started signing before laura was born about6 years ago. I had 3 friends in church who were deaf. Well God never brings people or things into your life without a reason. So naturally i thought that laura would have problems with her hearing. I just took it in stride and when she passed the newborn hearing screening , i was exstatic. Then 3 years down the road Samuel came along, 2 months premature. He was a fighter in the fact that he didn't just give up. He struggled to breathe for 3 1/2 hours till the nicu unit could get to him. 3 days after he was born, he took a turn for the worst and i was told he wouldn't make it. All i can say is that God amazes me everyday. He had pnuemonia and they treated him, in two days he was well enough to have the hearing screening done. Everything was perfect. All was there and functioning.
After he came home , our family fell apart. We had a really bad incident which forced the kids and i to move to wv. sam was 6 months old. Well things went on as usall but with all the chaos of moving and the family unit being split in half, i didn't really pay much attention to the milestones of the kids. ex. crawling, cooing, sittiing up.
It was about 1 year after we moved that one day i sat with sam and realized that when he played, he was completely silent. then i remembered how calm he was as an infant. I just thought he was a good baby. After about 7 hearing tests and 2 abr's and autisim being ruled out.
we discovered that he has auditory nueropathy. i thought ok i can handle this. I mean God doesn't give you more than you can handle, right? Well ski-hi has been coming out and working with him and me, when the sign teacher noticed laura watching very intently. I thought she just wanted to learn, after all she could talk fairly well. Guess what? Yep, laura has been reading lips all this time and has the same condition sam does to a different degree. So to make a long story short, that is why i am here. Thanks for reading and next time it will be shorter, i promise.
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Hey Shannon,
I read your blog and it was moving. I want to commend you on what you are doing for your children and yourself. I know it's not easy being a single mother with one child at times, so I know it's hard with five children. I've always said the same thing, that God doesn't put us through what you can't handle. If your like me you may question why at times, but it's out of our hands. My advice is to keep being a loving mother to your children and work with them as much as possible, and keep your faith in God. Hang in there woman!!!
Hi Shanna,
I didn't realize that you were a single mom. God bless you! I know that it's not easy. I appreciate your encouragement. I am sorry that you had to be a single mom. In my situation although it is still so hard, it is the better choice. I know you are going to be a great teacher and i wish that our school district had teachers like you. they really need teachers that really care about the kids and not just the title or paycheck. Thanks again and i hope you have a great weekend, see ya monday.
shannon
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