We think about those things. We do a lot of trial and error in our house. We think about everything we do first with two hands and then we figure out how we can do this with just one hand. If we can’t figure it out then we go to the internet or our wonderful friend Darin to see if there are other ways to do it. Have you ever sat down and really thought cutting up your meat with just one hand?

Today Haylee and I were making a cake and it required eggs. So I assigned Haylee getting the eggs out of the fridge. I watched carefully just to see how she was going to handle holding eggs and climbing back out of the fridge. (We own a fridge that has the freezer on the bottom so many times you will find Haylee in the fridge literally) Haylee pulled the egg out of the carton and cradled it in the nook of her elbow of her little hand. It was the cutest thing and brought tears to my eyes.

I thought my daughter is going to be perfect. She is going to do anything anyone else in the world does but with one hand. She will cook and clean and work and get married and have children. That is a dream every mom has for her kids. And it is the same dream I have for my little hand big heart daughter.

We are setting up a store for Little Hand Big Heart.  Here is a sneak peek of what we have so far.  http://www.cafepress.com/lhbh .  Haylee decided that half of everything she is going to make is going to go to Shriners.  I mean seriously, this little one of mine is 7 years old and she is donating half of everything she makes back to a wonderful resource.  So I asked her what she was going to do with the other half.  Well that lead to a great call with a wonderful person who suggested a vision board.

Haylee and I created the vision board and are only about half done with it but everything on her vision board is about giving back.  She wants to Meet Darin (Darin, You were top of her list), she wants to take her uncle Dave snorkeling, she wants to write a book, she wants to make gift baskets and send them to any moms that are pregnant or have newborns that were effected with Amniotic Band Syndrome, she wants to travel the world and speak to people about living with a little hand.  And this is only half of all the things she wants to do.

Can you believe a little girl can have such a big heart?