Can you hear me now?!

I love NPR.  I listen to it all the time in the car.  Some days I cannot get out of the car because of the story on the radio.  Today was one of those days.  Sarah Churman was on Dick Gordon's The Story.  She told the story of the first time that she could hear.  She then expanded on the first time she heard her little girls' voices.  (Since I cannot do this story justice, please listen to the full podcast at http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_013112_full_show.mp3/view.)  Sarah is 29 and has 2 little girls and a husband.  Her husband's mother paid for her to have an implant to give her the gift of hearing.  PLEASE SEE HER YOUTUBE VIDEO of the first time she heard sound at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsOo3jzkhYA.  I cannot imagine a more appropriate "little things" focus for my blog.  The ability to hear is something that we all take for granted every day.  Over the last two years I have also had the privilege of being involved with a non-profit, Beginnings of North Carolina (www.ncbegin.org), that supports families of children that are deaf or hard of hearing.  If you have had a child, you know the test they do in the hospital at birth regarding their hearing.  For some families, they receive the report that their son or daughter may have hearing difficulties.  This non-profit supports those families to understand and deal with this news.  Today when I picked up Lowe from school, I didn't listen to the radio again.  I simply listened to the sound of the car, the sound of my body, and the sound of my baby's coos.  It was better than any song.