The begining

I started this blog to keep people updated on our trip to the Undiagnosed Diseases Program at the National Institute of Health. However I plan on using this blog to update and post about our whole family as we enjoy our life on Lorna Lane.

I will use this first blog post to explain my blog title, Life on Lorna Lane. Nine years ago we started our life on Lorna Lane. My dad had purchased some land north of town a few years earlier. It took a few years for him to decide what he was going to do with it, at that time Lorna was 3 and I was pregnant for Jadon. After many discussions he decided to give us a portion of the land, however it would be the back portion that had no road access. So we needed to build a road, and needed to pick a name for it. Lorna was the first and only child and grandchild at the time, so we named it after her. The doctors get a kick out of that every time they verify our address.

Fast-forward four years, Jadon was 3 and Lorna was 7. We were helping Lorna with her address for several weeks and Jadon turns to us and says “where’s my road mom, I want a road too”. What are we to do then, poor guy, how must he feel to not have a road named after him like his sister. We needed to come up with something. So we decided that we would build a path through the wooded portion of our land and we would call it Jadon’s Way. This fit very well because it was always his way. He was always right about everything; such as with his colors he would call something blue when it was red and was determined that is was blue when told otherwise. He is still like that by the way.

After that experience, when Cloey was born and very young we thought we would think ahead and come up with something to name after her. We have a camp area on the land and we spend a lot of time there. So we thought we would call it Camp Cloey. Currently that plan is backfiring on us. She gets upset every time we call it Camp Cloey. For some reason she doesn’t like it when she hears her name used for other things or even people. So she is now determined to find another name for the camp area. I’m hoping that she will get over that because we would like to put a sign up soon.