HOUSTON -- For just a few hours, Melissa Johnson — a widowed mother of four — set aside her worries and the hectic therapy schedules of her two special-needs children to enjoy feeling the wind whipping in her hair.
Waves splashe d her giggling children’s faces as the family sat on the bow of a 38-foot sailboat during a Galveston Bay outing sponsored by a non-profit group called Heart of Sailing.
"It was hard for me to schedule this, but I’m glad I did," the Cypress mom said of the more than two-hour sail on an especially windy June day.
The charitable organization’s lone Texas branch will take about 1,000 special-needs children sailing this year. All Heart of Sailing excursions are free and open to the entire family.
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