A Unique Experience...

Today my husband and I had a very unique experience. Let me start by going back a week or so. Jim, who is a Licensed marriage and family therapist, approached us about giving our testimony before the senate committee. Apparently the bill (SB 104) is before the Kansas senate that Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas will not reimburse these providers with these credentials. Jim works closely with one of our children, and he is very valuable to our family, so he approached us and asked us if we would go and share our story before the senate committee. We were HONORED to say the least! So, on to Topeka we went. Together we wrote our story, and brought one of our favorite pictures of our son in his cub scout uniform, displayed it while my husband stood up and shared our testimony. We were representing families like ours from all over the state. This is not the first time this bill has been up in the senate, and probably wont be the last unfortunately, but you have to make the baby steps to gain any ground.

It was a scary experience, but it was really really neat to do! We could not, however, have done this without the help of our parents. Jeff's parents had to go with Matthew on a gifted field trip to the K-State campus for a chemistry field trip. Neither of us were able to go because we were in Topeka working on this senate bill, but Matthew would not have been able to go on the field trip without someone there to help with him. Madison had to go with my mom and dad for the day, and Bethie was in school. We had family spread out so far just to help us. I am SO THANKFUL!! THANKS MOM AND DAD!!! I take such great comfort in knowing that my children are safe in the arms of grammy's and grampy's when we are not able to be there! ! !

This is us, just after we testified today. We couldnt get one of us together, so we took turns. LOL! After the session we were in, we toured the Capital building, since I had never been in there before. Very interesting and a lot of history!