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d get them right one week and the next week she couldn t spell any of them again she struggled to memorize math facts she had a hard time copying from the board she had a hard time focusing but she was so intelligent in every other way she is extremely articulate and bright i kept thinking something just wasn t clicking when is came to language as it turns out and as modern science has demonstrated dyslexia is caused by a difference in what pathways in the brain are being used for reading and this is already determined by birth people with dyslexia are often of higher than average intelligence but when it comes to reading they have difficulty decoding words as with everything there is a very good reason for that and that should be exciting for every parent who is struggling with a dyslexic child because there are many great programs out there to help people with dyslexia become good readers and spellers even more exciting was the news that there was a lot that could be done to help and that she could conquer her struggles with reading writing and spelling along with the news that there were effective ways to teach elsa there is also a new understanding of the strengths that people with dyslexia have focusing on those strengths and using them to offset the disadvantages has been so freeing elsa has blossomed this year in a year that typically for the dyslexic child who is not getting the right kind of help can be devastating elsa is finally getting some traction there are many different reading programs that are proven to be effective for dyslexic readers i have been tutoring elsa now for nine months and her progress has been astounding her confidence in school is blossoming she is so empowered to know the truth about her learning disabililty even though it is extra work for her and me i know the tutoring she is getting is helping her so much she thanks me after every session we do together she now knows that she is every bit as intelligent as the person in her class that breezes through assignments she now knows that with the right help and with a good understanding of her strengths she can use those to navigate the weaknesses our experience has been so positive since she has been diagnosed that she is very open with her peers and she wants others to get the same help that she has received that has finally given her hope we are now sharing what we have learned with teachers in our school and they are becoming informed and enlighted and looking to start some more appropriate programs for reading instruction in our elementary school afterall it would effect about 5 students in every class because elsa is in the fourth grade what we are doing now is catching her up i tutor her a minimum of 2 hours a week in the summer we will tutor for an hour each day hopefully by the end of 5 th grade she will be reading on grade level if we had known in kindergarten what we know now i could have been working with her all along and she wouldn t have ever fallen behind in school i share this story because dyslexia is something that effects all of us in some way being dyslexic can so often be devastating in our education system which has not caught up to what is known by modern science if elsa s experience sounds familiar to you you would be well rewarded to check out susan barton s website at brightsolutions us she has basically dedicated her life to educating people about dyslexia and helping to teach those that are she has a phenomenal amount of info on signs of dyslexia and what to do about it if you have a child that is struggling with reading please take a look the longer you wait the further behind they will be you can help them if you personally struggled with learning to read and this sounds familiar to your experience please take a look and know that your children have a 50 chance of the same challenge if you are a person interested in an emerging field that needs advocates please take a look what is known is quite astounding posted by kerry at 7 23 pm 4 comments monday january 18 2010 solidarity this is aunt julie she was our other mother while mark was in dental school she gave us food supplies and the feeling of being watched over by a parent for 4 years julie has four children and is the life of the party she loves to have fun she loves to entertain she is always serving someone she is accepting of everyone and always optimistic last summer julie married her perfect match jack jack loves to have fun and he loves julie julie waited a long time to meet her jack and they were sealed in the temple last summer we love jack because he is so good to aunt julie this woman who has spent her life taking care of people has a partner who wants to take care of her just before they were married julie was diagnosed with breast cancer julie and jack kept it to themselves until after the honeymoon then they shared with the family the battle julie had ahead of her stage 2 six rounds of chemo and radiation she has been going through treatment for several months julie lives about 17 hours away from us now we wish we were closer so we could help take care of her the way she took care of us when we needed it we sent her a greeting from the jensen girls aunt julie we love you here s a kiss get well soon we know you will posted by kerry at 10 19 pm no comments sunday january 17 2010 things are as they should be yesterday was a great day mark and i were blessed to witness the sealing of camden albrecht to his parents jessica and aric while big sisters maya and eden watched in the spokane temple i have never been present at a live sealing like this although my sister kim has adopted and been sealed to her two youngest children for whatever reason we were not able to make the trek to utah for those sealings i am now wishing we had known what we were missing because there is nothing that would keep me from an opportunity like that again to see the entire family in the temple together children in their white clothes and parents and everyone else in the room for that matter overcome with emotion by the feeling of the spirit in that sealing room i think the power of the visual of the children there for those of us who s children were born in the covenant just made the reality of the blessing crystal clear i was visualizing my children there with me too this was a special day for so many reasons the first being finally closure for a dear friend on a trial that has been ongoing for years wanting another child and being powerless to make it happen we have talked a lot about how we would never see miracles if things always happened the way we want them i think we all have things we wish would happen differently than they are or worthy things that we want so badly and are just not happening the way we pictured them but if jessica had delivered albrecht 3 several years ago like she was hoping another miracle might not of happened on the right is another dear friend karen pagliaro karen is my fiesty italian neighbor and friend who joined the church almost seven years ago she is divorced and has had a lot of very challenging things happen to her in her life but she is a hero in my eyes and has a burning testimony of the gospel my first memories of karen were meeting her to teach a discussion with the sister missionaries when mark was the ward mission leader years ago at the time she was my around the corner neighbor whom i had never met or seen she was recently divorced and putting the pieces of her life back together after several sets of missionaries she made the choice to be baptized and is a great missionary she is always baring her testimony to her clients about how the church of jesus christ of latter day saints changed her life she has wanted to go to the temple for the past several years but fear has held her back karen is also a friend of jessica and has also witnessed jessica s trial of wanting more children and the miraculous arrival of camden into the lives of the albrechts and when it came right down to it karen wanted to be in the temple to see camden sealed to his family and so an unexpected miracle who d of thought that baby camden would give karen pagliaro the courage to go to the temple so we all knew camden s arrival was miraculous but we didn t know who might be impacted in unexpected ways the day before camden s sealing karen and many of her sisters went to the temple together for karen s first time what struck me was all of the wonderful people who were there supporting her who i love and admire i just kept thinking to myself as these different women walked into the session grabbing karen s hand in a show of support as they came by all of the things i admire about each one of them and also many who were not there i am privileged to know well so many women of such high caliber many left the temple before we got the picture but i have been feeling grateful that in the church we get to associate with some of the best women in the world so to end my story once upon a time there was a baby named camden who came into the world to bless the lives of his family who had been waiting so long for their baby boy and in the process brought about another miracle for a very deserving self proclaimed stripling warrior mom who will now be able to bless the lives of her own children and countless lives through the temple work she is already planning to do starting with her own mother and things are just as they should be posted by kerry at 10 17 pm 3 comments monday december 28 2009 holiday resolutions here it is post christmas and i am just getting to a holiday post i think every year i go into the christmas season full steam ahead ready to take it on and at the end of it i am wondering um what just happened even with the hectic month of details we really had a great christmas this year for the first time i did almost 100 of christmas i e shopping staff party other gifts decorating etc i don t know if most married people operate that way and i have just been lucky to have mark s involvement in the shopping aspect in years past but this year that poor man was so busy at work that i did almost all of it abe wrapped that was new thanks abe we had lots of wonderful get togethers with our staff who are the best by the way our friends and our cousins in the area did i mention that my uncle steve and aunt joyce are living in the spokane area now to be close to liza and jane their daughters that i grew up with that has been fabulous we had our traditional christmas eve dinner with june denny and dave and sonya coates our christmas day brunch with the julians all of these people are our friends who feel like family our day before christmas eve nativity with the mclellands and christmas day dinner with the lees the frasers and steve and joyce we are truly so blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives who we absolutely love i am one of those cruel mom s who generally doesn t get the kids what they think they want because i think i know what they really want plus i figure not getting what you think you want developes character that they will appreciate much longer than they would anything tangible i could give them this year we got it right on the money they didn t get a lot but what they got is still keeping them busy four days later this is sad but that is not always the case so i will call it a success posted by kerry at 9 35 pm 1 comment monday november 16 2009 stating the not so obvious it is family night thanks to a recent tragedy in the family of a friend we are reviewing safety with our bodies trying to instill safety precautions without freaking anyone out is that possible there is a lot of interesting discussion about our private parts from the 11 year old who gets what is going on down to the two year old who is giggling and rolling around on the floor sophia who is four keeps saying let s not talk about this and kate 6 yrs is apprehensively asking questions like what do you if a baby touches your privates kate is becoming more and more wound up even though we have assured her she doesn t need to worry about it if a baby accidentally touches her privates finally she blurts out why do we even need our privates anyway that s a quick way to wrap up family home evening discussion posted by kerry at 10 02 pm 2 comments a conversation with sophia out of the blue sophia mom mom what sophia sophia how come jesus had the last supper mom wellll before he died he had his apostles together where they ate he did service for them and they got the gift of the holy ghost sophia mom were we there when jesus died mom wellll maybe we were there but it was before we came to earth so we didn t have our bodies yet sophia you mean we were just heads i guess it is time for the hand in the glove demonstration posted by kerry at 8 51 pm 2 comments thursday july 30 2009 ahhh la lake okay my record keeping has become quite ridoncules as my kids would say i guess when you have the most ridiculessly busy summer on record there is no time for blogging so here i am recording some of our summer adventures a few months after the fact our first trip this summer was to utah for the glen hanson family reunion i did not take a single picture i think i was burned out we had a great time missed kath and jarom s families but it was great to get those of us together who could come we were home for a week before we headed off to loon lake a local lake where we had rented an old house on the lake with my cousin liza her husband chris and their families we had a wonderful week there the lake was beautiful peaceful and the beach was perfect for the kids we had more smores in a week than i think i have had all of my life every night we roasted smores down by the beach my favorite part of the place we stayed was this amazing dock my dream was to get up one morning and do yoga out there on the dock before anyone else got up and i did it was seriously the best yoga ever unbelievably peaceful later that afternoon the 80 year old world war ii veteran and owner of the home we were renting who lived next door came out to the beach to tell me how flexible and limber i was and he asked what i was doing out there his wife had told him i was doing yoga two things i gleaned from this exchange number one it feels good to be told how flexible and strong you are even if it is by an 80 year old because in reality to people my age i am neither and number two i am glad i did not know i had an audience it would have blown my perfect yoga moment things being what they are i hope he enjoyed the show chris and liza s family were fun to be with it is fabulous having family nearby and they were laid back and easy to share a house with jane and rob s family came up for a day too which was great the little girls always appreciate having the cool teenage girls around elsa celebrated her 9th birthday while we were there let me just say that elsa is an amazing young lady she is incredibly 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