Leo Clement

Everywhere I look these days I see the catchy headlines which go something like this: "The top 5 (or 8 or 10) Things You Need to Know About ___(insert topic here). And I get all excited thinking, oh boy, now I'm really going to learn something useful, but after clicking on these articles and reading them, I'm left with not a whole lot more than what I started with. The articles seem so promising! The top ten things you need to know to have a great marriage! The top five things about epilepsy! The top eight things you need to know about Ukraine! The list goes on, and yes, perhaps there are things that I "need to know," but for whatever reasons at the end of my perusal, I still know pretty much the same stuff. It's exciting to think that in the few brief minutes spent on these articles, I will come out educated and enlightened and it's just another dash of reality when instead I'm left feeling unfulfilled. So with that said, I present to you my own vers

This trumpet vine looks like something out of a horror flick, but in the summer it's the most glorious example of totally out of control life. It's been more then a month now since our Christmas and New Years bomb and I'm thinking about gratitude. Why is it so hard to be grateful? Instead of enjoying this relative lull in the chaos, I'm slinking around on eggshells, jumping at shadows, and in general making a mess out of things while waiting for the other shoe to drop, because it's not possible to have a horizon free of impending doom! I'm that screwed up ya'll!  No, but seriously, it's been kinda difficult to really APPRECIATE the incredibleness that is Leo. His recovery has been nothing short of miraculous. After two surgeries, eleven days in PICU and about a month and half of shunt failure and hydro pressure, he's BAACK! Not only is he back, but he is roaring back like a biker in spring! It's totally awesome.  His therapists are in th