Wow this week has been an interesting one! Just when we are leaning towards the path of moving home, the Lord adds more reasons for us to stay here and perservere. Now perservere is not a hardship on my part as I love it here, despite the distance from family. Rather it is a test of faith for my husband who is searching for his own occupational answers.
The most exciting reason came in a phone call last week from the GRIT Program director telling us that Brendan has been accepted into their program. GRIT is an acronym for Getting Ready for Inclusion Today and provides one-on-one support in our home and community for Brendan by a team of specialists who support his Developmental Specialist (DS) who is hired to work specifically with his needs. Our interview went wonderfully with the program director on Thursday. Today we will meet their Coordinator and Speech Language Pathologist who will have a play date with Brendan to better assess his needs and he will meet his potential DS tomorrow for a compatibility play date.
Another, less obvious reason, is our ongoing work with our builder. He has several great projects that we have been working on such as building signs (an earlier blog), frost walling, deck railing and so forth. We have turned this into an incentive program for the boys and for ourselves for future things like getting the basement finished, Trileisure Center passes and holidays next summer.
In many ways I have been grieving about potentially losing the work I have been doing with Immanuel and my proposed Healthy Family Ministry (babbled about in several previous blogs). The proposal passed unanimously at church council and I am very excited about our possibly having an amazingly awesome new birth doula join our team from my last training. Our team is almost ready to run with all but one position filled and our launch being planned. I know this ministry will not only sustain itself, but grow without me, I just don't want to leave it this early!
And finally, my own work in training and mentoring doulas, childbirth educators and lactation counsellors. I have access to the perfect facility and my personalized small classes are becoming sought after when the only competition I have is Grant McEwan's birth doula class where 30 students are taught at a time, making the classes very impersonal. Don't get me wrong, I attended their very first doula training class they held and enjoyed it, but I would have given my eye teeth to have the personalized training I am able to provide now.
I should go and clean a bit before the GRIT ladies come today, oh and I have to phone a mentoring doula back. Salut for now.
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