Meet The Lucky Few | This Is Family | Summer Spirit

We took our friends The Lucky Few AKA mum and dad, Heather and Josh, and children Macyn Truly and August, on holiday with us to Florida wearing River Island’s latest trends! Whilst on vacay, we caught up with them to talk about what family means to them, the gift of adoption and how they’re flipping the negative connotation of Down syndrome on its head… “Most people believe that family means that you share DNA. You share the same eyes, the same cheekbones, the same mannerisms and that is true sometimes but all the time, family means love. Family is sacrifice, family is fun. It’s all of these things that has nothing to do with sharing the same eyes and hair texture.” Explain The Lucky Few and how that started. There are few of us who have a loved one with Down syndrome and those of us who do are very lucky! I started using The Lucky Few as a hashtag and then so did others in the Down syndrome community and over the years it has become much bigger than us. We use this phrase to shift the idea of Down syndrome from a deficit to an asset. Raising Down syndrome kids has allowed us to see things from a new perspective. It’s a gift. They’ve showed us through a different lens, how to live life. A lot of ideas about what it means to have a child with Down syndrome are really outdated or based on assumption. People don’t know, because they haven’t met someone with Down syndrome and so there’s a lot of negative assumption. I’m so thankful that my kids are growing up when they are,