My oldest daughter is applying to college and in talking to her dad and me about her essay she said “I’m glad I gave them really had any adversity in my life, so what should I write about?

I went blind starting 9 years ago, and it has been a rough transition formy family, especially her, I thought. I’ve been a stay at home mom so was in charge of all Mom’s Taxi runs, that stopped in 2014. The meds they tried made me sleep 14 hours a day. I stopped being a useful parent to her and her siblings for months before stopping the meds. I’ve been away from home fir O&M and guide dog school for a total of a month. I had to get her Lyft rides to practice if my husband was on a business trip. So many more things you guys will know about.

When I says about the essay “well, I went blind and that’s been hard” she said “oh, I forgot! But, no, that’s not hard on me, I’m going to write about leadership from marching band.”

This amazing kid didn’t even think of thát as adversity. I mean, yeah, c9mpared to really hard stuff like poverty or abuse or neglect, she’s right, but I’ve been worried she might have felt somehow burdened by my blindness. She gets embarrassed when I cry, so I waited to post this until she went to get some groceries.