With all of the new expenses that have come up for Rowan’s treatment, Joel and I have been trying to find ways to make extra money. The average biomedical treatment for autism costs $30,000 to $70,000 a YEAR!! Isn’t that just insane? So, I’ve been trying to sew alot lately, to bring an extra little bit here and there. It’s been fun! I like when i’m forced to be creative 
Plus for some reason, when I’m sewing, I can talk to the Lord really easily and stay quite focused, as opposed to when I sit to just pray (which I think is the ‘right’ way to do it but sometimes I just don’t do that well!). Here’s a few pictures of my latest favorite bag design:
These are both in my shop right now, just waiting for the perfect person to come along and claim them!!
Update on Rowan: the past few days have gone REALLY well for him! His disposition has been extremely sunny. He smiles at us and looks us straight in the eyes, which most children who deal with autism dont do, so that is encouraging! He has been very affectionate and playful, although still not like a neuro-typical child yet. But I can see the fog slowly lifting, and my heart is overjoyed! Let me expand on the fog:
Many people say that before their child became autistic (meaning, before they regressed into showing full-blown signs of autism, which is the most common way for autism to be diagnosed), they were not in the fog they’re in now. When they are frozen in autism, they seem to in a kind of different world where they’re real selves just can’t come through. I’m not sure if I’m explaning this well, but I hope you get it. But yesturday, as my son looked at me all day long and smiled and sat on me while i laid on the floor and sang “Pop Goes the Weasel” to me, I could see a little bit of his real self through the fog. Like we were almost connecting on a different level. I can’t wait for more than that!
Alot of people who are not propponants of biomedical treatment and recovery (mostly because they believe what mainstream doctors say: that autism is untreatable and pretty much a life-sentance), think that it is mean to try and change someone when this is the way they are, but I disagree whole-heartedly. Rowan regressed into this fog and daggum, I’m coming in there to get him!!
So friends, if you wouldnt mind partnering with us in prayer through this whole thing, I’d be extremelely blessed! We need lots and lots of money, to be quite blunt, so pray for miraculous provision. And pray for Rowan to be healed. Nothing is too big for the God who created the heavens and the earth. After all, He is our rich Daddy.
Jenn
