Our First Graduate

I'm officially the parent of a high schooler. Woah!!

Our first journey as parents through elementary school was a wild ride...

Normal preschool, before we knew anything was wrong.

Kindergarten where suspicions arose.

A move to a Montessori school, where diagnosis arrived at our door and eventually became impossible to cope with at school.

Two years of homeschooling followed.

Finally, a move to a private Christian school, which despite some of the toughest years, has been a place of growth and from where Eli is now graduating.

The number of phone calls, emails, meetings, IEP plans, check-ins, weekly drives for therapy, in-home tutors, medications, specialist appointments, and so many solutions that were tried and failed over all of these years... the list behind us now is massive. I don't know how we did it. This is a milestone we as parents and Eli can both be proud of. He has endured and literally survived more than any child should have to. Now here we are, somehow, at the end of grade 8 and facing high school.

Children grow up, and disabilities come with them. Some things changing, and some we wish would change. So the future remains a question mark. New school. New teachers. New classmates. New freedom. New responsibilities. New struggles.

Here's what I now know - God can make the impossible possible.

Whenever I worry about the future, I always turn around. In hindsight, I can always see how God was working behind the scenes when I couldn't see it at the moment.

I know He is already working on Eli's future through high school and beyond.

I'm so proud and grateful.