Mom’s daily schedule usually looks like this:

She wakes up at 6 am, gets Adriel’s sister Natalie ready for school and drives her to school. She has to be there by 7:30 am. She attends Indiana school for the deaf (ISD).

Mom comes back to her homestead on the West side of Indianapolis by 8/8:15 am and get baby Josue (Adriel’s brother) ready for school. She drives him to school as well by 9 am.

Sometimes after mom will go and spend a couple of hours with Adriel at Riley Children’s Hospital, or sometimes she’ll go back to the homestead, clean and unpack.

Then she picks Josue up from school at 11:50 am. Then she usually either goes to see Adriel or come home and clean and unpack which every she didn’t do earlier.

Natalie comes home at 4 pm from the bus, and sometimes by that time a friend helps mom watch the kids if she’s available. Mom will leave around 3 and go back to the hospital, or she’ll wait for Natalie to come home and takes the kids to see Adriel.

If mom takes the kids, she usually drives back to the homestead. Mom never lets Adriel fall asleep without her. She always makes sure that her or dad are there to fall asleep alongside Adriel. Sometimes mom will stay there until midnight and come home and rest. Then, she does this all over again the next day.

Dad works back home in the Lake Michigan area. He’s there mostly all week and comes to Indianapolis on the weekends. Sometimes if mom doesn’t have help with the kid, he’ll drive down and go back to work the very next day or even same day.

Mom and dad don’t have a big support system, but they’ve been making it work for thier kids, and with the help of God putting pieces together for them.