Updated 8/15/2007 - by Kara Bishop

As a total newbie to blogging, I need your help!  What kinds of categories would you like to establish for our conversations?  What kinds of subjects within those categories would you like to see?  Our website is set up such that I'm the only one that can start threads but I'm happy to start anything you all want to discuss.  Just let me know!  In KC, I learned quickly that local support group blogs often have nothing to do with DS and everything to do with (mostly) moms connecting - so let's do it!

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Updated 8/15/2007 - by Kara Bishop

How's the first week of school been?  How well are those IEP's written in the spring functioning now in August?  :0)  Anna moved up to Vestavia Hills Elementary - Central this year and has had a smooth transition thanks to great teachers and even more importantly, great typical friends.  She is a minor celebrity being the only person in the entire school with DS.  I'm ambivalent when I think about that - glad that she is recognized and celebrated, and sad as I wonder how many of her peers with DS were aborted.  She misses her friend Daniel (who has DS) from last year.  Thankfully he'll move up next year.

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Updated 8/15/2007 - by Kara Bishop

This summer I read "Jewel" by Bret Lott - the fictional life story of Jewel Hilburn whose 6th child is born with DS in Mississippi in 1943.  Great read - so compelling at times that I wonder if Mr. Lott knew a family like this or this is a thinly veiled fictional version of his own family.

I just picked up "The Memory Keeper's Daughter" by Kim Edwards - it was featured at the NDSC convention in KC - another work of fiction about a baby with DS born in 1964 in KY.  The author was a speaker at the convention.  Anybody else read it?

What else have you all read at the beach?  What have your kids read?

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