A Thought Towards My Distant Future

As some of you know, I work at a hospital as a surgery scheduler.  Well just the other night, I was talking OR nurse, Alberto who was telling me about his care home.  He owns 2 adult family care homes, and he says a lot of his clients are adults with Down syndrome.  He was encouraging me to start my own for my future sons...  He was explaining to have a home built with a central living kitchen area and have a hallway of extra rooms- they could be like mini apartments or just rooms.  But this would be a way to bring in extra income in the future.

Now I've thought about my distant future with David and Evan... I have ideas of what might happen.  Both or just 1 of them may be capable enough to work and live on their own, or maybe get married, or live in an adult home, or live with us...  I know they will always have each other and will be best friends/brothers and will have a bond to last them into eternity.  But, there is sense to be made to be planning for our future if we want to have a couple extra rooms available for more amazing individuals of the Down syndrome community.

In case I haven't mentioned, James and I are the most biggest dreamers ever.  We have HUGE expectations for our lives.  We literally see our future with limitless possiblilities.  We dream big, pray hard, and live in the present thanking our God who is perhaps putting these dreams in our head for a reason.... Other big dreams we've had include: missionary work/opening up orphanages, for James to write books, for James to be a pastor/leader for teenagers or for a community center, for him to go get his Masters, or for me to start investing futures and commodities, for me to operate a website to benefit Down syndrome, do video work for Down syndrome/orphanages (I used to do video work)!  I'm excited for our future because we can do anything we want (God willing)... but the most important thing to us is making sure whatever decision we make will mesh well for David and Evan and will also bless them. 

I have a picture session to go to today for David, and I look forward to posting them later!  He such a beautiful boy with the biggest, brightest, almond-shaped eyes... and he has the biggest smile- all gums and no teeth!  :-)  **Proud Mama**