Great Things are Coming - I mean, I'm pretty sure ...

Good morning, everyone! I'm picking up here after several (6?) years of no-writing. There have been a lot of changes this year for the H/Smith family, in addition to the Coronavirus and civil rights stuff we've all been navigating. We've just moved to a new town, in the Charlotte NC area, and are figuring out all the new stuff - doctors, schools, etc. My Dad passed away suddenly/unexpectedly in January, and then of course everything changed for everyone in March. I left my part-time job as a therapist after 6-1/2 years because Matt got a new ministerial appointment, and I'm planning to stay home with the boys for at least six months until we have a better sense of how the school year will go. We're still unpacking, but it's going fairly well, and the parsonage owned by the new church is *really* nice. We haven't met a lot of new folks yet, but we expected that.

I feel bad that I neglected the blog (and my parenting memoir, that I worked pretty hard on for a year or so), because I really enjoyed writing it, and got lots of good feedback. I imagine that figuring out David's new school situation will lead to lots of new thoughts/emotions - looking at the options for the New County, I'm scared that the system will underestimate him based on numbers (IQ, performance on specific tasks) and place him somewhere where he won't be challenged, where not a lot will be expected of him, that they'll give up on him. Where they won't see how absolutely amazing he is, how funny and sweet and yes, how smart he is, and they'll just put him someplace. Stay tuned for our adjustment adventures ...