Category: JK Update

I didn’t email this update at the time… In June we lost our house and our independence. We found ourselves in a series of dirty, cramped and disorganized living situations. Over the next few months we straightened up the basement and the rest of the house after moving the rest of our possessions from Dallas.… Continue reading September 2014 Update #83

I didn’t have the heart to send this update out at the time. I started it several times, but never completed it because it seemed like such a defeat… Julie qualified for pre-school in the Plano ISD. She went for 2 hours twice a week to help with speech therapy and socialization. They didn’t supply… Continue reading June 2014 Update #82

I never actually sent out this update so it appears for the first time here on the website… Julie had actually fed herself spoonsful of pudding back in January. Her progress halted after back-to-back illnesses. Julie celebrated her 3rd birthday in several ways. First, she lost her early childhood intervention (ECI) therapists. In Texas, they… Continue reading March 2014 Update #81

I started in the fall of 2014 to transfer the Julie Kristina updates from email (and Facebook) format to the heart4ministry website. This marks the last  update in the email format… Everyone made progress until we got sick with the creeping crud… In our last update (October 2013), I reported that Julie began drinking freely from a… Continue reading January 2014 Update #80

The rest of the October update begins here… Julie and Adam made several breakthroughs since August. Julie made progress in several areas in the past several weeks since our last update. First, she now sleeps in a twin bed instead of a crib. Our friends exposed her to a real bed in mid-August when Julie… Continue reading October 2013 Update #79

I have split up the very long October update into two pieces starting with… Now to the big news in the family – I lost my job. My boss has kept me on a short leash for nearly two years while trying to figure out what to do with me. I was reorganized multiple times (in 2009,… Continue reading September 2013 Update #78

Just when we thought we had cleared all the hurdles of birth, Adam pulls another fast one on us… We had a “full day” Friday – full of doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, hospitals, and waiting rooms. We started with a routine appointment to Adam’s pediatrician. After going to the wrong office and arriving late, we… Continue reading August 17, 2013 Update #77

We went to bed on Sunday morning on top of the world. We had everything planned out for Adam’s birth in 10 days then… Adam’s big day arrived sooner than we expected. As Sarah filled up with a midnight snack Saturday night, she felt a small contraction pain. It only lasted a moment and didn’t… Continue reading Adam Christopher Birth Update #76

I started this update late on Saturday, August 10th (you can see the importance of that date in the next update). We had moved to the final stretch before Adam came and I finally had some mojo to write for the first time in months. Although work seemed impossible, I found great joy in this… Continue reading August 2013 Update #75

I didn’t send out an update in July, but I’ll include this piece of any update I sent out in August which covers most of the time from April to July… Julie continues improvement in all areas except feeding. Her gross and fine motor skills, oral communications, vocabulary, recognition, and understanding progress weekly. She plays… Continue reading July 2013 Update #74