Photograph by Maralise Petersen. Kathryn Lynard Soper is editor-in-chief of Segullah, a literary journal by and for LDS women, and editor of Gifts: Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives (Woodbine House, 2007). Her memoir about mothering a child with Down syndrome, The Year My Son and I Were Born, will be released by the Globe Pequot Press in March, 2009. Kathryn lives with her husband Reed and their seven children in the mountain west.
At three-and-a-half, her Downs Syndrome child would not give up…