*** 1 YEAR ***

Hello All.
The one year anniversary has passed on 8/8/08. It was a good day and a hard day to get through. I have to keep reminding myself where Jordan has come from. We are so blessed, thankful and lucky to have her. I kiss her everyday and tell her how much I love her (like a thousand times). She thinks I'm weird because sometimes I will smell her, touch her skin, listen to her breathe and stare at her.....just because I love her so much and never want to loose her. She is still doing really good and is walking each day better and better with her braces on and her walker.
She is excited and extremely nervous for school. It was decided at our last meeting that it was a good idea for Jordan to stay with her peers so she will
start as a "Freshman" at WHS on the 26th!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I am having aniexty bad..... I told her this is going to be harder on me than her. I don't want to let her go. She has been having lots of therapy this summer. Although she is still having trouble with her left arm we are still trying to get her to move it as much as possible. She will only start with 2 classes and all three of her therapies at school. I'm sure it is going to be difficult the first couple of months until we get a routine going.
She just had her make-a-wish this past weekend. It was to go shopping at the Maine Mall. We went on Friday & Saturday. It is nice because she got her school shopping done. It has been a very busy summer and she has had a few sleepova's (as she calls it). Some planned and some not...... Let me explain.....Jordan often invites her friends over and does not ask or tell her parents......so sometimes it is a surprise. We are trying to get a handle on this. She also text messages people in the middle of the night or early a.m. .....so we will be taking her computer and phone away at night so this will not happen either. She figures if she is up that everyone else should be too. We have been going to Beechridge almost every weekend. Jordan is like a little celebrity there. She has many friends that still race and she enjoys watching and cheering them on. Plus there are a lot of "cute boys" there.....(as she puts it). I told her she is not making my hair gray / she is turning it white! Sometimes looking back it seems like the year went really fast and other times it seems like forever.
We still want to thank everyone for their continued support for Jordan.
She is one tough cookie and we are very proud of the accomplishments she has made. We hope she will continue to gain strength and will again walk without assistance and learn to be more independent. Right now I still do everything for her and she will have a 1:1 aid at school helping her. I hope by the end of the year she will need them less & less and get back to her independence.
Thank you so much and we love you.
Love, Brenda, Jordan & Jimmy