Enough!

OK, the last posts all seem like I'm bitchin' and complaining. I want to post something positive today. YES, my child has a disability! Yes that is a positive thing! Where would I be today if I had not experienced the birth of not 1 but 2 children with T21 Down Syndrome. I definitely would not be as compassionate as I am about my career as a special educator, my students and how others treat them. I definitely would not have the attitude I have, be it good or bad, depending on the mood I'm in. I definitely would not appreciate the little things in life that so many take for granted. Little things like that sound that you know by golly is a word. Yesterday evening at dinner we were watching Sponge Bob, I know bad idea, but hey it distracts from the eating of foods normally Spencer would refuse. The song they sing comes on and its has in it "wooooooooo" lives in a ....... I be gosh dang if Spencer didn't do that part, the "wooooooooo"! I 'bout came unglued laughing, crying, screaming at Mike to listen and guess what. Spencer wouldn't do it again if his life depended on it, but by golly I heard it!!! Go Spence, I knew you could. He is so stubborn sometimes I could eat him up! Sometimes he does things I know to see my reaction. Push my button until I explode and I see it in him saying, oh boy there she goes! Just the simple life, that's all Spencer wants and I guess in a way he gets it. Don't know if you've ever read it, but it is well worth the time. The title "If People with Down Syndrome Ruled the World" http://www.nads.org/pages_new/news/ruletheworld.html Take time and check it out.....how great the world would be. That's what I think about when Spencer is being difficult, how simple my world would be if he ran it!!