Our oldest, EL,. Is in 11th grade this year, but has special learning needs due to autism. JJ is our youngest, an active boy with Tourette Syndrome. He is in the 7th grade. Please feel free to follow along. Tuesday, August 11, 2015.

A Blog by Valerie Courtney Basham. Us, but to reveal.

Tuesday, July 21, 2015. No this is not my kitchen. Ess you could say I am coming out of hiding. I can not tell you how many blog posts I have written in my head, but they were never written. See, I was waiting. Waiting for life to be ordered, together, and reach some magical place where there were no problems. Guess what? One of the things the Lord is showing me is that I need to be vulnerable- he is even asking me to do it on line. Thursday, October 23, 2014.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. I came across this poem yesterday. One day, through the primeval wood,. A calf walked home, as good calves should;. But made a trail all bent askew,. A crooked trail as all calves do. Since then two hundred years have fled,. And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail,. And this, before me.