Jerald's Yarn

Before we begin, I'll share with you what my trusty dictionary has to say about yarn:

Yarn [yahrn]-
noun

1. thread made of natural or synthetic fibers and used for knitting and weaving.

2. a continuous strand or thread made from glass, metal, plastic, etc.

3. the thread, in the form of a loosely twisted aggregate of fibers, as of hemp, of which rope is
made (rope yarn).

4. a tale, especially a long story of adventure or incredible happenings: He spun a yarn that outdid any I had ever heard.

Today, I'd like to share Jerald's Yarn. You cannot have his green or camo yarn he's been knitting into Christmas gifts, sorry you'll have to go buy your own.

However, he does have a yarn to share with you fitting the fourth definition above, but also directly related to the first. This is not a story of adventure or incredible happenings in a Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn sort of way.

However, It is most definately a story of adventure or incredible happenings in a Jerald sort of way. Huck and Tom got nuthin' on my boy!

I orginally started this post several weeks ago, but daily life and other blog posts have gotten in the way and I haven't yet completed it.

Yesterday, Jerald decided he wanted to share his story on his own blog. We spent a bit of time tonight going over it. I helped him a little with editing, clarifying, but mostly it is his story in his own words. He actually edited out some of my "help". :-)

Rather than finish this post with my own thoughts on the matter, I am going to point you to his blog. First, I do just want to say: Please keep in mind that this is about much more than knitting. Motor skills have proved to be a challenge for Jerald over the years. The frustration that came with understanding a concept, but not being able to get his fingers to comply was hard. The past 6-8 months have seen much progress in this area for him. Getting to the point that he can reach his dream of knitting is really just a small part of a bigger picture.

His story doesn't belong to me, so I'll stop here.

There is no better way to capture his excitement or the hugeness of his accomplishment than to read it from his perspective.

Please take a few minutes, hop to his blog by clicking here and enjoy his story about never giving up!

(I'm sure he'd be THRILLED if you left a comment for him too. **just as a sidenote, if you try to comment and it doesn't seem to work it's probably fine. I moderate all of his comments so they first come to my email and wait for approval before going on his blog. It confuses some people, but it's just a way for me to keep him safe from the garbage that people sometimes post)