{"id":534,"date":"2007-01-31T07:44:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=534"},"modified":"2007-01-31T07:44:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T14:44:15","slug":"overwhelming-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I woke up with overwhelming sadness.  Not about Joshua.  No, my sadness is more centered on J2 (of course, then it encompasses my whole life).  He&#8217;s my 10 yr old with learning disabilities in the language area.  <\/p>\n<p>He still struggles to read 3 letter words.  And, he must decode them as we go.  Even if he just decoded h-a-s he&#8217;ll act as if he&#8217;s never seen it before in the next sentence.  Working with Phonics Pathways does seem to be helping him&#8230;.but his dad has not noticed it.  Last night his dad shared some of his concerns with me and now I&#8217;m soooo upset.  I was feeling so good about things &#8211; yes, we are slow, but we are making progress.<\/p>\n<p>But now I think I&#8217;m just fooling myself.  He&#8217;s 10 yrs old &#8211; for Crying out loud!  I&#8217;ve been working with him since he was 4 to learn his letters.  I&#8217;d take off time from time to time &#8211; praying that his ability would catch up with my desire.  <\/p>\n<p>What will become of him?  How can I help him?  Why can&#8217;t God just fix him?  I need a boost of optimism and joy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-official sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><div class=\"fb-share-button\" data-href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=534\" data-layout=\"button_count\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><div class=\"pinterest_button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D534&#038;media=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F10%2Fcropped-poppy-150x150.jpg&#038;description=Overwhelming%20sadness\" data-pin-do=\"buttonPin\" data-pin-config=\"beside\"><img src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/images\/pidgets\/pinit_fg_en_rect_gray_20.png\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=534\" data-text=\"Overwhelming sadness\" data-via=\"Knitnmom\" >Tweet<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a class=\"tumblr-share-button\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/share\" data-title=\"Overwhelming sadness\" data-content=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=534\" title=\"Share on Tumblr\"data-posttype=\"link\">Share on Tumblr<\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button\" href=\"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=534\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\" ><span>Print<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;width:150px;\"><ul style=\"background-image:none;\"><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Overwhelming%20sadness&body=http%3A%2F%2Fosbornz.net%2Famy%2F%3Fp%3D534&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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A good day, but a long day. Today was the reunion of my youth group. It was not well attended but I really enjoyed the folks who did show up. We are hoping to maybe organize something bigger in 2011. I seem to be\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":431,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=431","url_meta":{"origin":534,"position":1},"title":"Miscellaneous","date":"November 3, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"First - Julie - check out this link RE podcasts: http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Podcast I'm sure you can find some scrappin' podcasts out there! I've listened to a few podcasts on knitting - haven't found a favorite yet - but if you are knitter, check out this one! Feeling sad today. No real\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Family Life&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":223,"url":"http:\/\/osbornz.net\/amy\/?p=223","url_meta":{"origin":534,"position":2},"title":"Sadness","date":"June 16, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Tonight is one of those nights...everything is normal....but I notice the loss. I wonder what one more boys voice would add to the chaos. 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