Max has always struggled with speech difficulties which have in turn made reading very frustrating. Our belief has always been that it would happen, and our desire has been not to quench his love for learning. Last year we were blessed to have an incredible woman work with him in our local school. Finally things started to make sense for him with reading. While he is no longer working with her, she provided us with the same curriculum she was using and we have used that for Language Arts this year. The past few weeks Max has taken off, it's all starting to come together and we're seeing major growth spurts. One of the difficulties of having a late reader is finding books that are at his reading level, without being babyish. The other night he pulled out his dad's bible and proceeded to begin reading it out loud, then he went and grabbed a childhood favorite, Katy and the Big Snow and proceed to read the entire thing to us on his own. AMAZING! His dad and I were so proud, and he was beaming.
I entitled this post "Strides" because that's what it feels like the past few weeks have consisted of. One of the definitions for strides is: to take a single long step, as in passing over an obstruction. It feels like as of late we've been trying desperately to scale various obstructions. This time of year is my absolute favorite, yet it is also the hardest time of year for me emotionally. I have to force myself to cling to God's word and to focus on getting out and about. There are bad days, but over time, I've learned to plow through. I'm beginning to see the clearing and focus on the upcoming holidays. Family, friends, (food), fun, and fellowship... my favorite F's. So making strides is what we've been about.. sometimes it's a lot of baby steps that help us lead up to that "single, long step," and sometimes it just comes out of nowhere and another obstruction is placed behind us.
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