I have a blog to recommend. And not just because Joyce, the mother of Sarah and sometime co-author of http://sarahely8989.blogspot.com/, was kind enough to link to Girl in a Party Hat the other day.

Joyce writes eloquently about being a mom of a grown daughter with Down syndrome. And Sarah writes eloquently herself.

For a while now, Ms. X has made this blog her own required reading. She often tells me, “This will be Sophie someday!”

I can only hope.

I kicked myself after posting the other day about the ghosts of the future I see often. Robert Polk’s Ryan and Joyce’s Sarah — those are the role models I’m going to focus on from now on.