Charis

Greek for Grace or Undeserved Gifts. We all have them, learning to recognize them before it's too late, that's another story. Hopefully through this blog we can share what we have been graced with and share our stories about our "undeserved gifts."

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Location: Round Rock, Texas, United States

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Seven Years Old!!!


Can you believe it? He's seven! It's so hard for me to fathom where the time has gone. This may sound so cliche but sometimes it feels like it was just yesterday that we got our little Christmas Eve miracle! It's hard to imagine that this little boy came into this world at only 5 pounds 5 ounces and that people were so scared to hold him they held him on a pillow in their lap!
And although our little guy still may not say much his eyes speak volumes...

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

One year!

Can you believe it? We have been here a little over a year now! It was officially a year on December 12th that we physically got to our new house from our cross country road trip.
We have a lot of great memories from that road trip, being able to stop and see family and friends along the way that we hadn't seen in a while! It feels like this year has just flown by. Although this year most of the visiting has been done by people coming here we hope to be able to try to visit sometime next year. It is hard trying to schedule times when Chase and Billy aren't in school and that we have enough time to make the trip truly worthwhile!
We hope everyone has been having a good holiday season so far and you are taking a break for yourselves to relax during the craziness that comes with this time of year!

Monday, December 11, 2006

A thought from someone very active in Autism Advocacy...

"There are some aspects of a person's life that we have no right to compromise.
We cannot negotiate the size of an institution.
No one should live in one.
We cannot debate who should get an inclusive education.
Everyone should.
We cannot determine who does and who does not get the right to make their own choices
and forge their own futures.
All must."

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Arsenic...


As many of you know Chase has Autism. We have watched over the last few years as the rates of Autism in families in the United States have climbed to epidemic proportions. At the last publication 1 in every 166 children will be diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder with the likelyhood of occurence being 4 times more likely in boys. 1 in every 166 kids-there is a higher risk of our children being diagnosed with Autism than all of the chidlhood illnesses combined!!!
As we have struggled through the years to find the "cure" or as some would call it "the magic bullet" we have learned so much about what goes into our food, our drinks, our medicines, our vaccines and the kind of harm we have been doing to our bodies. With the contraversey surrounding thimerasol preservative in vaccines and it's subsequent pseudo ban from vaccines we have learned that we have been injecting our children with insane amounts of mercury!
A few months ago we were able to take Chase to see a Dr. here in the Austin area who works with children with Autism. Among other therapies he does support chelating heavy metals out of the system, so we did a DMPS challenge to coax the heavy metals out of the fatty tissues where they are typically stored and sent away the urine sample. What we got back was a shock! Not only does Chase have a heavy metal burden in his system his test results showed large amounts of arsenic! Isn't it amazing that a deadly poison could show up in a childs system and we have no idea how it got there? Arsenic! This has strengthened my resolve to know more and more and leave nothing to chance when it comes to what goes into my families bodies!

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Mia's Debut Performance!!!


Tonight Mia got up on stage at our church and sang four songs with the preschool and kindergarten kids-The Little Creek Choir! She had a lot of fun up there and did great! We have been working on arm movements and learning the songs at home for a couple of months and we have been rehearsing since the beginning of November with mixed results. Tonights performance was by far the best she's done! We are so proud of her! Amazing how much she's grown "in the blink of an eye."