We're Gonna Need a Bus!

$7,630.75!

While we wait to travel for our newest family members to come home we are having fun enjoying spring!

We had some awesome friends offer to help us do a fundraiser, either a spaghetti feed or Chicken Q on May 15.  We were very excited and had planned silent auctions and raffle tickets, a DJ, kids games etc.  Well things haven't gone so well since.  We have gone to tons of businesses asking for donations and sharing the story of our kids and a few places have been awesome and we so appreciate it but there just hasn't been enough positive response to be able to continue.  If things change and some donations come in we may be able to schedule for a later date but for right now it doesn't make sense to continue.  We are bummed; we need the funds; it will happen!

I am sending our dossier documents (all except for our USCIS approval which we are still waiting for) to another family today to carry over for us!  I have faith that we are meant to be on this path and that these kids are meant to be in our family!  The money will be there just when we need it ( a little self pep talk:).)  But just in case you would like to help us along here is our donation link to our Family Sponsorship Page on Reece's Rainbow.  You can also paypal the money directly to me at szamlh@yahoo.com and use the send money to family and friends option and they won't take out any paypal fees!

http://reecesrainbow.org/100585/sponsorschultz-3

                                  And to end on a happy note; Some more prom pictures!!!


                                                                   Mr Cool!
                         Macy was exhausted already in this picture; She really did have a blast!

                                                                 Pretty Clara!
                                          Rowen was dancing so fast he was just a blur!
                                                          Big Sister snuggles:)



                                                               My Little Stud!

We finally have spring weather so we had our first cook out at the park with fishing to follow of course!  Clara enjoyed the worms and minnows the most and Simon was sure that the minnows were babies and everyone was trying to get them back to the Mama and Daddy fish!  Lol

   







I am all about inclusion in school.  My kids with special needs deserve everything every other kid deserves.  I don't feel like our schools, especially in the older grades do a very good job of including our special needs kids.  Maybe it isn't the school at all but the reality that the gap between their abilities and that of their typical peers is getting bigger and that is a hard fact to swallow when we have worked so hard to prove that they are more alike than different.  I'm still not sure, but last weekend we attended Prom!  Not your typical Prom, but a Special Needs Prom put on especially for our kids!  Most of the volunteers attended as "dates" for their "special" partners and made sure they had the time of their lives.  And most of these volunteers were high school students or young adults themselves who were honored to be there.

     So while inclusion is still a priority in my book; I also believe there is a place for our special kids to have their own activities as well.  Events where they don't have to work so hard to fit in and where they can just be themselves and nobody is going to laugh at how they do something.  In a perfect world we wouldn't have to worry about them being laughed at for anything but the world we live in is anything but perfect unfortunately.

     So for now I am still glowing with the after thoughts of Prom and enjoying the memories of my kiddos all dressed up and feeling so special!