Extreme Home Makeover...for EVERYONE!!!

  

There are so many overwhelming things when you are raising a child with special needs, the actual weight of Zach is one of my biggest concerns.

We bought our house a year after getting married when we thought it would just be us for awhile and we thought it would be perfect for a small family when we decided to start one. A month later I found out I was pregnant. We thought this little house would be perfect; it had 3 bedrooms, plenty of room for lots of toys and a big yard for our coming little one to run around.   

It all seemed perfect. We got a great deal on the house (or so we thought before falling house prices the last few years) and we were now ready and starting our family, but life can flip on you in a moment. I now see my house as a burden. I see it as an obstacle for Zach. Our little house and all its levels makes for small spaces for Zach to move around and explore. He has to be carried from floor to floor, and each floor is a small space so moving things around like walkers and wheelchairs just isn’t effective. 

I pray he will one day walk and be able to get up and down stairs, but for now he continues to get bigger and our house is not losing any of its 38 stairs (20 inside, 18 outside) to maneuver in/out and around our house. 

It’s pretty amazing how life works. The way you think you are making plans for the future, and God decides He has a different way, a better way, a way you may never understand.   

You start to realize how even the things you never thought about before, like stairs, can make every thing ten times harder. How liking your neighbors just doesn’t matter when your child only has one small room they can get around in your home. How having a big yard doesn’t matter when your child can’t run in it. How you never thought God would need to work on your character in this way. How you didn’t realize you needed to be ready for change in every area of your life. Even the small things that didn’t seem to matter before, like the floor plan of a house, will need to change.

It seems so simple. It’s just a house, but what are we supposed to do now? What is best for our family? How will we afford to change it? Life comes up with so many questions, some of them easy and some of them hard. Whatever life throws at you it’s up to you to make the best of it. I have figured out how to make the best of this one…Extreme Home Makeover, for everyone!!!