Jake's Journey with Apraxia

This is the part in the story where we say goodbye.
The summer of 2014, right before Jake entered kindergarten, he was dismissed from speech therapy. Apraxia and the struggle to speak left our life. At the time, I began wondering what the future held for this blog. After all, when you’ve built your life...

After a day of playing outside, it’s getting dark, and I listen to my son and his friend in the backseat of the car as we drive home. Both boys are recovering from childhood apraxia of speech.
They are in the first grade and are busy strategizing about how they can best escape from Ashley, Teagan, Elizabeth, and Makayla who chase them around on the playground every day at recess....

Our family recently returned from a spring break vacation to the sunny, 75-degree coast of Florida. Jake is now seven years old and for the first time since he was born, we had a “normal” beach experience.
I looked at my husband that first day, toes in the sand, reclined back in a beach chair and said, “This is a blessing. You realize that, right? When’s the last time we were able to just chill at the beach?”...

A couple of weeks ago I had a consult with Jake’s allergist.
It was hard for me to put myself out there and discuss histamine intolerance and syndrome of allergy, apraxia, and malabsorption with him because they are not recognized as “official” conditions in the United States. We’ve been seeing Jake’s allergist...