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Vanessa’s Miracle: A Courageous Heart

Primary Children’s 12 Days of Miracles: Day 6 From the moment you meet Vanessa, you know she is no ordinary girl. Her impish eyes, engaging smile, and pink-purplish hair are all clues to her playful personality. A self-proclaimed math geek, and always connected to her cell phone, this enthusiastic 14-year-old wants to be the first [...]

Talking with your Children about the Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

The shootings in Connecticut, in which children and school staff were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School, may naturally cause kids to worry that something similar might happen to them, or their loved ones. It also can make them fear some aspect of daily life — like going to school — that they never worried [...]

Madison’s Miracle: She Is Able to Smile

Primary Children’s 12 Days of Miracles: Day 5 Little Madison Louise is a bundle of miracles. As a first time mom, Margaret had no idea what the contractions she felt meant. By the time she realized she was actually in labor, it was too late to stop. Maddie, as her parents call her, was born [...]

Gavin’s Miracle: I will get to play football again

Primary Children’s 12 Days of Miracles: Day 4 Gavin Skirucha was born with an abnormal heart valve. A diagnosis of “critical pulmonary stenosis” meant he would always deal with a heart that wasn’t as strong as everyone else’s. His mother interpreted that to mean he should take it easy the rest of his life. Gavin [...]

Justin’s Miracle: He Was Back to His Old Self

Primary Children’s 12 Days of Miracles: Day 3 Justin was only two weeks old when we first learned that he had a heart murmur and would require open heart surgery to correct it. In March 2012, Justin had surgery to close a very large VSD (Ventricular Septal Defect). As parents we were very scared to [...]

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