Ep. 56: The Gift of a Special Needs Child (A Chat with My Bestie, Lindsay)

M Is for Mama Podcast

Abbie Halberstadt

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

I regularly get asked if any of my children have a diagnosis with which we must grapple.

While the answer is no, I do have firsthand knowledge of both the struggles and the joys of having a child with special needs through my friendship with Lindsay Long, my closest friend, business partner, and the illustrator of both M Is for Mama and Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad, and her daughter, Evie.

In this episode, we talk about the grief that comes along with realizing that your child may never achieve some of the same milestones as other children with fewer limitations.

We discuss the biblical principle of true contentment and the “joy set before us” in the privilege of pouring ourselves out for our children, regardless of disability.

And we declare God’s goodness in hardship, even while acknowledging that we don’t always like the circumstances in which He has placed us.

I have no doubt that Lindsay’s insights and experiences will be a blessing and an encouragement to all who listen—but especially to those who walk the sometimes lonely road of special needs parenting.

Proverbs 27:17

Psalm 139

John 12:24-26

Matthew 5:39

Romans 12:15-17

Philippians 4:11-12

John 3:30

Philippians 4:13

1 Corinthians 3:11

Isaiah 25:8

Romans 8:28

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the MS for Mama podcast. I'm your host, Abby Halberstadt, happy wife,
0:09.7	mama to 10 Bible believing Christian. And on today's episode, I have such a fun treat for you. Before we get
0:17.8	started, I want to mention our sponsor, Milk and Honey Jewelry.
0:21.3	You guys have heard me talk about how beautiful their jewelry is and how it's something that
0:24.3	you're going to want to pass down to future generations. It is that high of quality.
0:29.2	You can use the code Abbey 15, ABB-I-E-1-5 to get 15% off your order. All you do is send in a sample of breast milk or formula to commemorate the time of feeding
0:42.7	your little one.
0:43.8	And then they send you back beautiful jewelry where they turn your breast milk with
0:47.0	your formula into a stone.
0:48.2	And it looks just like a stone that you can treasure forever.
0:51.2	So if you want to check them out, you can go to milk and honey dot jewelry
0:56.2	and use that code.
0:58.2	Okay, so today I have, drum roll please.
1:03.2	That's right.
1:04.8	Okay, there's going to be a lot of giggling.
1:06.8	I can already tell, sorry.
1:08.1	Be prepared, y'all.
1:09.4	So today on the show, I have my best friend in the whole wide world, Lindsay Long. Hi. Hi. Abby. That jewelry thing is so cool. I don't know. I didn't know as a thing. Yes. Sorry. Yes. It totally is a thing. Yeah. You literally, like, it's like a little teaspoon or half a teaspoon of breast milk And it's this beautiful, pearlicid stone. And then you get to be like, this is the memory of my feeding my baby. Or babies. Yeah. Okay. I don't like to it anymore. No, no. Sorry. It's been a minute. Yeah, it's been a minute. Unfortunately. So this is my best friend, Lindsay Long. If you have read either
1:46.3	Emma's for Mama or Heart is not the same thing as bad. And then when you read book three,
1:51.9	mystery book three, you will have seen her beautiful illustrations. She is an amazing artist.
1:58.1	Her portrait art is ridiculous. It is just, I mean, the way you use light
2:04.8	and texture to make people's eyes and hair and stuff come alive is just phenomenal. I'm not sweet.
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