The Chase is On

Ben­netts is the name of today’s nom­i­nated author. The pur­pose of her blog is sim­ple, “I have 9 kids from the ages of 25–2 1/2. I love my large fam­ily and Christ­mas is the best time of the year. Down syn­drome has been a road of won­der and pride. Most peo­ple don’t remem­ber the first time their child learns to do small things like find their nose but when you have a child with Down syn­drome every lit­tle mile­stone is a big event. Chase is a very lucky lit­tle boy to have broth­ers and sis­ters who love him so much and who are so happy he is a part of our fam­ily.” The blog is called The Chase is On.

Not every par­ent with nine chil­dren would con­sider them­selves “blessed” with a child with Down syn­drome. Ben­netts’ win­ning post is titled Chase’s School Assess­ment which was posted on Sep­tem­ber 9, 2007. Chase’s mom states, “They put Chase in the chair and snapped the desk to get his atten­tion as he was more inter­ested in the kid cry­ing at the table next to him. They quickly showed him 4 pic­tures of dif­fer­ent ani­mals and said “Chase where is the horse” He points out­side and says “side” for out­side. She then says “NO where is the horse”? Chase looks at her like she was on crack and says VERY loud “SIDE”. They look at me and I said “Well, our horses are out­side at our house”.…” The Ris­ing Blog­ger is please to award Ben­netts’ post as our Post of the Day!