September's favorite fan on the sidelines 2012

This weekend I wasn't feeling well... as has been the case for a while, but I don't worry my family. So I needed much rest and naps.  Luckily I was able to do that.

I was recently reminding myself how much I love angels...

I believe these wonderful spiritual beings are real and are with us... I also have a nice little belief that whenever Daniel is looking at ceilings and the sky and smiling with bright eyes he is seeing an angel that we can not see.  Ever since he was just an infant he would follow something invisible above him that I could not see.















Today was one of those days when I could see angels in the clouds everywhere I looked.  Most people think I am strange for seeing angels in the clouds but I do.  I really do.  Its a wonderful thing to look for....

We took Daniel to see Thomas's football game in Danbury today, and Mom and Pop came over to watch too.  It was a lovely breezy sunny fall day...  and they won the game too.

Daniel enjoys going to the football games.  There was a day when watching other boys play and run freely used to break my heart in half.  I suppose it still does...  it always will...  but Daniel enjoys being outside in the action.  Listening to the sounds, the whistles, the cheerleaders, and of course watching the sky.

I ask you... if you are reading this... to imagine yourself not being able to speak, or express yourself, not being able to walk or move yourself at all.  But your eyes are remarkably acute...  you would be like Daniel...soaking up his world in other ways.

Daniel is a great fan of everything his brother and sister do.  He has no "thing" of his own.  Understanding and accepting that for Daniel and kids like him...there will be no football, baseball, 8th grade dance, plays, proms, sweet 16 parties...    He has no "friends" and he lives a very isolated world aside from the kids he sees in school and his family.  And church too, Walnut Hill community Church..when we get there (FOOTBALL)

I am blessed with this child... and his magic...but he will sit on the sidelines watching quietly as others achieve glory.  And after awhile... you usually catch him staring up into the sky or the trees or at the ceiling...  watching and maybe speaking with his own angel.   Someday my son Daniel, you will run and play and laugh and shout!  God clearly had special things in mind when He made you.  I am the one who has to figure it all out and keep my sanity in check.

Watching from the sidelines....that kid in the orange wheel chair with a tube attached to him and a nurse and Mom by his side....