I feel all warm and buttery. 
Today at my work, we had a charity lunch and party for Meeting Street school. It's a preschool for kids with various disabilities ranging from palsey to nonverbal. There were like 80 of them. Along with all their adults.
At first I was kinda indifferent to them. Happy they were there and happy they were happy. But generally not caring.
The plan was to give them lunch on the house, then give them a tour of the whole resturaunt front and back. Then Santa would come and pass out gifts we had all chipped in to help get the kids. MNGR Rich's wife works at hasbro so we were able to get some good toys at cost. Dave the biggest most non ppl friendly mngr ever was Santa. And he was a totally different person. He was great with the kids. But I didn't see it as any different then a hundred kid parties I'd been to.
Then something wonderful happened.
I'm at the front and I see some late comers arrive. And at that moment a tour of kids was walking by. Some of the kids while walking by would smile and gently stroke the kids cheek and keep walking. Silently. I thought it was some kinda school handshake or something. So I ask Christina about it who works for us as a second job but is with the school full time.
Well some of the kids are nonverbal so they were just saying hi."
That floored me. Because I realized that I couldn't tell who was the nonverbal since no one had spoke. Whether they could or not, they chose not to while saying hello in sign. They were just being friendly on an equal level. I doubt the kids realize how special that is. Most adults will sign but still talk. It's a subconscious thing. The mind can't help but see a difference between the ppl. It can't help but recognize the unlevel playing field. But the kid's simply wouldn't talk around the deaf children because they saw no difference. Like speaking another language rather than acomadating a disability.
Wow. Children never stop amazing me.
Christina told me that most of the kids were in foster care because the parents simply quit on them. It was heartbreaking. One mom who came in I coulda killed. She had had twins but one of the girls had palsy. So she was putting her up for adoption. Splitting them up. She came in a literaly said she was getting her kid because she didnt want charity for her daughter and she was having to much fun. Christine told me the girl used to talk all the time but was getting more and more silent and nonresponsive. She knows her mom doesn't want her. And that she's going away from her sister. Christine was crying. I was calmly imagining killing the bitch in my head.
Kids don't deserve this. I never understood how much they needed something like this. I'm glad I helped. Real glad. My boss said she's never seen me behave like I did with the kids. I'm usually very professional. Kid's just put me in my prime I guess.
I'm actually still grinning.
Cap goes bye bye
Today at my work, we had a charity lunch and party for Meeting Street school. It's a preschool for kids with various disabilities ranging from palsey to nonverbal. There were like 80 of them. Along with all their adults.
At first I was kinda indifferent to them. Happy they were there and happy they were happy. But generally not caring.
The plan was to give them lunch on the house, then give them a tour of the whole resturaunt front and back. Then Santa would come and pass out gifts we had all chipped in to help get the kids. MNGR Rich's wife works at hasbro so we were able to get some good toys at cost. Dave the biggest most non ppl friendly mngr ever was Santa. And he was a totally different person. He was great with the kids. But I didn't see it as any different then a hundred kid parties I'd been to.
Then something wonderful happened.
I'm at the front and I see some late comers arrive. And at that moment a tour of kids was walking by. Some of the kids while walking by would smile and gently stroke the kids cheek and keep walking. Silently. I thought it was some kinda school handshake or something. So I ask Christina about it who works for us as a second job but is with the school full time.
Well some of the kids are nonverbal so they were just saying hi."
That floored me. Because I realized that I couldn't tell who was the nonverbal since no one had spoke. Whether they could or not, they chose not to while saying hello in sign. They were just being friendly on an equal level. I doubt the kids realize how special that is. Most adults will sign but still talk. It's a subconscious thing. The mind can't help but see a difference between the ppl. It can't help but recognize the unlevel playing field. But the kid's simply wouldn't talk around the deaf children because they saw no difference. Like speaking another language rather than acomadating a disability.
Wow. Children never stop amazing me.
Christina told me that most of the kids were in foster care because the parents simply quit on them. It was heartbreaking. One mom who came in I coulda killed. She had had twins but one of the girls had palsy. So she was putting her up for adoption. Splitting them up. She came in a literaly said she was getting her kid because she didnt want charity for her daughter and she was having to much fun. Christine told me the girl used to talk all the time but was getting more and more silent and nonresponsive. She knows her mom doesn't want her. And that she's going away from her sister. Christine was crying. I was calmly imagining killing the bitch in my head.
Kids don't deserve this. I never understood how much they needed something like this. I'm glad I helped. Real glad. My boss said she's never seen me behave like I did with the kids. I'm usually very professional. Kid's just put me in my prime I guess.
I'm actually still grinning.
Cap goes bye bye
so when do you want that sled? I'll talk to you wommarro about it...Im going to lie down for now...and try to kick this "cold in the making"