Amid the chaos, spring’s transformation brings hope

Amid the chaos, spring’s transformation brings hope

My husband, Randy, and I had our first baby while I was teaching students with a variety of difficult diagnoses. Our son, Matthew, was followed three summers later by our daughter, Katie. During both pregnancies, I never worried that they wouldn’t be healthy. Then, before I blinked too many times, both were in elementary school. With another blink shortly after we moved to the North Carolina mountains, we found ourselves welcoming a third baby i…