Spending time with the Wounded Warriors

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Jordan is less than two weeks away from an amazing opportunity. She gets the chance to work on her softball skills and get to know the Wounded Warrior Amputee Softball Team. It’s incredible. We are flying to California to spend a week with the team and 19 other kids and their parents. Jordan will have…

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A new level of softball

Game on! Jordan’s softball season kicked off last night and she was very excited. She has the new baseball shoes, the cool pair of shorts, new hat, shirt and a batting glove. Even better? She is focused to do her very best. Her team launched into their first year of machine pitch softball and it…

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Softball Season Returns with Speed

After a few weeks of practice and a rain delay, Jordan finally had a chance to play her first softball game of the season. She’s playing for the coach pitch Dragonflies team. If she sticks with this, next year is the start of kid pitch. (That’s when things get serious.) Jordan loves this sport. She…

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Trying something new

Jordan’s brother, Cameron, tried a new sport this spring: Track. He’s a distance runner who is learning about sprinting. It’s an interesting new experience and he part likes it and part feels exhausted by it. But because it’s new, it had Jordan interested in the experience even though she’s on a softball team. Since we’re…

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Speed Lightning on the Field

Jordan is fast. She has a sprint like no other little kid I know. While I like to run at a slow and steady pace, Jordan has power. She shows it off during each of her softball games. Somehow, I caught her flying during her game over the weekend. Softball is a challenging sport for…

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Dressed Up, Ready to Play and Testing Us

This post is not officially approved by Jordan… But I feel the need to share a parenting perspective from the view of a parent of an incredibly strong and confident kid… With or without a limb difference. Anyone who has spent time with me lately will know that Jordan has been testing our patience lately.…

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Learning It's Okay to Fail

Jordan is in her first year in coach pitch softball. After two years of really fun t-ball, this is a little different. Pitches aren’t always perfect and sometimes you may not hit the ball. As a kid with a limb difference, Jordan has had to try and try and try on so many things. She…

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Sharing inspiration in the news

I’m making a big transition this week… After Friday, I’m leaving 17 years of working television newsrooms to work for the national AARP organization. I’m becoming the organization’s social media trainer and I’m thrilled for the opportunity. It also means some changes here at Born Just Right. I promise to get a t-shirt shop going……

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Meeting Hayden Filson

A while back I went on a rant about the way the media covers limb differences… Some Illinois media outlets reported on a “one armed” high school softball player. If you watch the video, you quickly see how Hayden Filson has TWO ARMS and one hand. It put me on a media rant that has…

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