Okay, I took long enough to get organized but here we are. I expect to post on here to enlighten or entertain any readers and to promote our website at Carolinenfriends.com (or carolineandfriends.com, since we own both domains).

The intent of the website is to share whatever information we get, or if we see something is succeeding with Caroline and maybe others need to know about it. There is actually a page on the site with info we have used with Caroline so far, as well as a page with links we have found that shared appropriate and informed discussion rather than the unbelievable nonsense we blundered into when we first began our journey.

If you have something you think is working or know of something innovative, please share it. We want to be a clearinghouse of information and if there is something out there that gives our daughter and others another leg up, we want everyone to at least be educated on the risks/benefits. This also goes for things that have been suggested that are detrimental or found to be less efficacious (so we all aren’t wasting our time).

I’ll keep the comments open for now unless we get some crazy in here (trust me, my blog on Emergency Services leadership, FirehouseZen.com has had a few doozies and as a result, I have had to put the clampdown on some of the stuff that comes in there). So for now, there are three rules:

1. Be Nice
2. Be Helpful
3. If you can’t do that, then please keep it to yourself.

So with that, thanks for reading and I look forward to hearing from you all. Please feel free to pass this on to anyone who can benefit.

Well, here we are on DownSyndrome.com. I blog regularly on emergency service issues, but found this host while searching for some other items.  We think we’ll hang out for a while and see what’s going on.

Posting the first post is like dipping into the peanut butter for the first time.  It is extremely satisfying to see the surface interrupted by your finger, but then, it’s done.  You have indelibly altered the reality of the peanut butter.

Caroline, our daughter, is like any other child, and I’m sure like any other child with Down syndrome.  However, her unbelievable courage and her mostly-ever-present smile have affected so many people that we took her as our inspiration and created a non-profit to help others: Caroline & Friends.  So you can come check it out (the website is about to get a remake, since I’m dabbling in Dreamweaver these days) and learn more about us.  Feel free to comment as well.  Looking forward to meeting you all.