LOOK: Illustrations By Moms That Will Stop You In Your Tracks


When Katherine Kowalski review a story about Gabe’s Care Map here on HuffPost Parents final week she famous her possess life. Like Gabe Lind, whose mother, Cristin, drew a formidable web to simulate all it took to caring for a medically marred ten-year-old, Katherine, too, was carrying a formidable time explaining her life to those outward it.

Her two-year-old son, who she calls Orange on her blog to strengthen his privacy, does not nonetheless have a diagnosis for his cluster of symptoms, delays and disabilities. “Poring over (Cristin’s) map and nodding in recognition,” Katherine writes, “I started to consider about how we competence promulgate what life is like caring for Orange, regulating images as good as words.” The outcome is a work of art, as good as a striking painting of a romantic tour Orange’s family takes each day.

Both Katherine and Cristin seemed on HuffPost Live where they concluded that creation their maps — saying their hurdles and support systems in black, white and multicolor before them — was reaffirming. It allows anyone, whatever a sum of their life, to take stock, and conclude their village.

Katherine’s Care Map is below. We also entice we pull your possess and send it to us during [email protected]. We’ll collect them as a reverence to parents, and all that they do.

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  • Katherine Kowalski’s Care Map

    a href=”http://www.orangethisway.blogspot.co.uk/”Read some-more about Katherine/a.

  • Patti Durovchic’s Care Map

    Patti writes:

    I have arrange of a opposite perspective, as my daughter, Katera, is now 16-years-old. We usually only recently, during prolonged last, got an tangible diagnosis of a singular genetic micro deletion syndrome. She has mixed medical and developmental issues that are utterly concerned and complicated, so we’ve had many, many people concerned with her over a years. This caring map is some-more personalized to a sold child, during this moment. it positively doesn’t embody everybody who’s worked with her over a years. That would need a wall-sized mural.

    My caring map is bright, colorful and curvy since I’m an artist and that’s how we think. When we combined it, we wanted to do it intuitively, not perplexing too tough to make it “pretty” or orderly in true rows, though attempted to more-or-less paint what we *feel* all a time.

  • Cristin Lind’s Care Map

    a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/18/gabes-care-map-special-needs-children-caregivers_n_2469564.html”Read some-more about Cristin here/a.

  • Do You Have A Care Map?

    strongSend your painting to a href=”mailto:[email protected]”[email protected]/a and we will underline it here./strong

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