MOSAIC MOMENTS

Today I have been extremely busy, this is opposed to the ‘very busy’ that I usually am, so I am writing my article much later than normal. However, good things come to those who wait!

One of our new families on our support group shared her blog with us and the pictures are just breath taking! I always appreciate good photography! I have inherited the ‘non-photographer’ gene from my mother and most of the pictures I take are carbon copies of what my mom took when I was young— Either heads are cut off, or half the person is completely missing! I don’t know…. I try, and I know in my mind what I wish to capture….
maybe it is eye-mind-hand coordination!

So… Tara has a daughter with mosaic Down syndrome and her daughter’s name is Emma Sage. Emma Sage is beautiful!!!

  See!! I told you she was beautiful!!! 

There are many great stories and pictures on Emma Sage ’s blog!

However, this one was so wonderful that it is one of those that you are going to read, and laugh, and then when your friend calls you on the phone you will tell them about the story, then when you lay in bed at night you are going to think about it again and just start laughing all over again!

I love those kinds of stories!!!

Here is Tara’s story about Emma Sage…

Today at Shoprite my cell phone rings…..I look to see a call coming from Katrina.

I answer…..”Hello Nini” and I hear her laughing and she says to me…

“Mom, your never going to believe what just happened”

Of course, the first thing as a Mother when you hear ‘just happened’ you think something is wrong….but she was laughing, so my heart unknoted. She continues…….”I was upstairs in my room and my cell phone rings…..I answer it and it is Emma Sage, who says ‘Nini, I want to call Mommy, can you help me?’”

So Katrina says that she goes down stairs and finds Emma Sage sitting on the living room floor, phone in hand and the phone book open on her lap. She has turned to the letter ‘M’ and says to Katrina…..”I can’t find Mommy’s phone number!”

lol!!!!

Emma Sage has five phone numbers memorized…..Our house number, Katrina ‘Nini’s’ cell number, Greta’s cell number, Grammy & PopPop’s house number and PopPop Swanson’s house number. I have not taught her my cell number as of yet…..but will have to now.

How clever of my little girl to know a tool to use to find an answer to her question…….to get the phone book and look under ‘M’ for Mommy!!!!!

For me, as a parent, my one concern for all of my children is that they grow up to be able to figure things out for themselves…..they don’t need to ‘know’ all the answers, but my wish for them is that they can use the tools around them to figure out the answer. To be able to assess every situation and be able to respond in the most appropriate manner.

So to see Emma Sage with the phone book, and then calling her sister for help, just makes my heart soar…..as I know, that as she goes through life, she will try on her own to come up with an answer or seek out someone that can assist her.

Thank you so much Tara for this great story! I am going to laugh about this for a while!!