I have been sent on a very important journey.

I didn’t sign up for it. I don’t undestand it yet I know I have been “sent” on this journey.

I’m not educated, credentialed or prepared. There is no “how to” book to read, no youtube video to watch and noone has ever walked my exact path.

I have no idea what I’m doing most days, sometimes I feel like there is a blind-fold over my eyes and other days I can see so clearly. I walk, I trust, I stumble, sometimes I fall.

My heart is fully commited to this journey. I know that I‘ve been entrusted with a treasure that most people never experience and that my partner on this journey is unlike anyone I’ve ever known. She teaches me though many think I am the teacher.

Some days are full of unexplainable joy, other days we barely have enough light to see our way through.

I have been sent on a very important journey, I am the Mother of a child with special needs.

Nettie S. Hatcher