Posts Tagged ‘meetup’
An awesome Born Just Right meet up in Chicago
What happens when you ask a bunch of awesome people who read Born Just Right if they want to hang out? Well, more than 40 people end up meeting at the Chicago Children’s Museum! I’m so thrilled by how many people braved the Chicago traffic to spend time with Born Just Right families. Check out…
Read More +Details coming together for the Born Just Right Meetup
I’m so excited to see some of the details coming together for our Born Just Right meetup on July 20th. I’m trying to get more details finalized and looking for ways to help keep our expenses down. What is super remarkable? We already have 34 people (including entire families) who are attending! Want to sign…
Read More +Let's create a huge limb difference meetup
I’m wrapping up my final day out of town before I jump into some really exciting family adventures. Next week, Jordan, Cameron and I are attending Camp No Limits Missouri. With your support we raised almost $4,000 for the camp. It’s pretty awesome. I promise to tell the stories of camp while it’s underway here…
Read More +Born Just Right in New York City
I had a fantastic chance to moderate a panel in New York City this week as part of BlogHer‘s first ever HealthMinder Day. The day emerged in part from last year’s Special Needs mini-conference during the BlogHer 2011 conference. This year, I had a chance to moderate a panel with three other amazing women: Robin Strongin…
Read More +This is just the start
I’m so happy we had a visit with three families during Born Just Right’s first Google+ hangout. I’m planning to do this often so more of us can meet in person. Along with just meeting, I’m thinking about having some topic-specific meetings so we can ask questions and look to each other for possible answers.…
Read More +Let's meet in person with the help of Google+
I’m all about technology. It’s what has helped me grow as a parents and an advocate. This website has been an important part of my connection to the limb difference and special needs communities. I also happen to be a geek when it comes to social networks. I train people on how to use them.…
Read More +VIDEO: Meet Jordan's latest helper arms
Take a look at Jordan’s new arms. It’s pretty cool to check out. I shot a little bit of video with her trying things out in the appointment room on Monday: Jordan and I are finally back home. On our way, we had a chance to visit one more Born Just Right family. Seriously, I…
Read More +Thankful for gatherings
Over the weekend we had two different chances to meet up with kids who were born just right. On Saturday, one of our friends who we met through this website happened to be at the same football game as we were. Jordan and her friend had SO much fun being goofy and running on the…
Read More +Amputee Coalition: Day 3
I realize I have to break down all kinds of lessons and information I learned during the Amputee Coalition‘s national conference. So I’ll give a quick rundown of our final day taking part in the conference. I had hoped to attend one session on prosthetic hand technology, but trying to get a little girl out…
Read More +Family meetup!
We had a great meetup yesterday at the Magic House just outside of St. Louis. We had a small but super fun group of families to play and get to know each other. The Magic House was crowded but we were able to have all kinds of fun. I can’t say enough about how powerful…
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