Landon & I made it to the Holiday Party with Kids In Action at HSC, as I stated in my post last Friday.
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| Check out My Holiday Cookie Monster! |
As we walked in we were greeted with friendly smiling faces from staff and other families. The set up consisted of snacks & beverages, crafts, cookie decorating station, ornament tables, wall game with Rudolph, and a gift table. Of course you can guess what table Landon saw first and kept going back and forth too! After a while the room suddenly began to fill up with more staff, parents & families and most importantly more kids, ranging from ages 1 to 22; all with different health impairments.
I started out by taking Landon around to the different craft tables. We stopped at the mitten table first since he walked over to touch the cotton balls, then we headed over to the ornament tables. I was actually surprised that he didn't get tensed and clingy. He walked around with his smiling funny faces while grabbing all the cookies at his reach.
What I enjoyed most about this evening was being in the company of other families and seeing so many different children who owned the uniqueness of themselves. I mean we have been to several doctors appointments or other places where we ran into other special needs kids but we had never been surrounded by so many at one time. This actually made me feel settled knowing that we all had something in common- -that was rather different in appearance. And Of course I was approached with the question "is he autistic"? Which is always so difficult to give a straight answer, because he hasn't been diagnosed with autism but his genetic syndrome produces the autistic traits. But in short, its just seems easier to say yes.
I didn't get to meet any parents as I would have liked to, nothing more than friendly gestures and hellos. As everyone was just in their own moment with assisting, mingling and engaging in the fun with their kid(s). I'd admit this was definitely the confirmation I needed to remind me why I need to quickly move on with my vision for M.A.R.C.H.H; as it also provides more clarity that this has become apart of my life, which I've become accustom to enjoy.
Eventually Landon starting to get a little uncooperative so we went to grab a seat and in no time, he cuddled up on me and fell asleep. At that point I sat there for a while then we went around to say out good-byes and headed out.
In all the evening ended well and I'm glad we went, I'd like to say we both enjoyed our evening filled with holiday fun!!
What I enjoyed most about this evening was being in the company of other families and seeing so many different children who owned the uniqueness of themselves. I mean we have been to several doctors appointments or other places where we ran into other special needs kids but we had never been surrounded by so many at one time. This actually made me feel settled knowing that we all had something in common- -that was rather different in appearance. And Of course I was approached with the question "is he autistic"? Which is always so difficult to give a straight answer, because he hasn't been diagnosed with autism but his genetic syndrome produces the autistic traits. But in short, its just seems easier to say yes.
I didn't get to meet any parents as I would have liked to, nothing more than friendly gestures and hellos. As everyone was just in their own moment with assisting, mingling and engaging in the fun with their kid(s). I'd admit this was definitely the confirmation I needed to remind me why I need to quickly move on with my vision for M.A.R.C.H.H; as it also provides more clarity that this has become apart of my life, which I've become accustom to enjoy.
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| Landon's crafty ornaments we made..... |
In all the evening ended well and I'm glad we went, I'd like to say we both enjoyed our evening filled with holiday fun!!
#DecemberBeNice
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