A to Z Challenge – April 2016 – Are you in?

I told you on March 6th that Emily and I are joining the A to Z Challenge in April.

Some bloggers will pick a theme for this challenge, me, I needed to find a way to respect “Lessons from my Daughter”while doing this challenge!  I can’t really see myself picking a random theme as my theme is Emily and our life.  I blog about us, I blog about Emily and I tell you about her challenges and success, I do my best to raise awareness for Cri du Chat Syndrome while keeping you engaged and hopefully entertained!

Before signing-up, I talked to Emily about this!

We’ve had meetings earlier this year to talk about her future, to discuss what Emily wants to do, to try and figure out what will come after high school!

We made a plan

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A big plan!

In there, somewhere, it says that Emily wants to start her own blog.

To help her, we enrolled her in some more tutoring class.  We are certainly paying a University degree in tutoring but as long as my girl is learning, we will figure out a way to pay for this.  They know her and are working extremely well with her.

So, this A to Z challenge, this will be my chance to introduce you to Emily’s writing!

So far, we’ve picked 25 words, not necessarily the words I wanted but I am allowing Emily to be the driving force.

Emily doesn’t like my suggestions for letter “Q” so I will need to get my dictionary out and find new options.

Emily also doesn’t want to write about hospital, therapies, surgeries and so on.  She made that really clear by crossing off some of my words!

I bought Emily a new notebook and today we dedicated a page per letter.  Look at her, she worked hard on this.  I will try to dedicate some time weekly for us to work on these posts so they are ready to go out daily comes April 1st.

Stay tuned!

Thanks to Niki at The richness of a simple life for introducing us to this challenge.

Emily and I are #1022 of 1102 entries so far!

Check it out!

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NEW!!!  We have a facebook page: If you want short updates and timely pictures of the little things that are happening in our life, please like and follow Lessons from my daughter‘s page.

You can also find me on Twitter at @plebrass

I am on Pinterest too: Lessons from my Daughter

I just discovered StumbleUpon, I added a stumble me button on my posts but I have no clue what to do there: I believe you can find me under plebrass.

Find me and other mommy and daddy bloggers on Top Mommy Blog

Find more about about Cri du Chat syndrome at 5p- Society

Emily has a her own page in the family stories , you can find it here: Emily

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Our extended family

Having a child with a rare diagnosis is some what isolating.

After Emily was diagnosed with Cri du Chat Syndrome in Oct 1999, nobody else in our world had Cri du Chat Syndrome, nobody had even heard of it.

Seriously, even our doctors didn’t know anything about it!

Facebook helped us connect with other families and when I started to blog, I decided to introduce you to some of our extended family!

Here are my interviews so far!

21. Let’s meet Arizona

20. Let’s meet N.

19. Let’s meet Jie Jie

18. Let’s meet Turner

17. Let’s meet Kali and Kera

16. Let’s meet Natalie

15. Let’s meet Wade

14. Let’s meet Nellie

13. Let’s meet Dustine Aaron

12. Let’s meet John

11. Let’s meet Olivia

10. Let’s meet Alexia

9. Let’s meet Allan

8. Interview with Rachel

7. Let’s meet Maxwell

6. Let’s meet Katie

5. Let’s meet Kelli

4. Let’s meet Rachel

3. Let’s meet Elijah

2, Let’s meet Allie

1. Interview with Emily

If you would like to be added to the list, please send me a note or reach out in the comments below!

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NEW!!!  We have a facebook page: If you want short updates and timely pictures of the little things that are happening in our life, please like and follow Lessons from my daughter‘s page.

You can also find me on Twitter at @plebrass

I am on Pinterest too: Lessons from my Daughter

I just discovered StumbleUpon but I have no clue what to do there: I believe you can find me under plebrass but I need to spend quality time there.

Find more about about Cri du Chat syndrome at 5p- Society

Emily has a her own page in the family stories , you can find it here: Emily