I was in the grocery store today, the soup aisle to be exact, when a little girl ran up to me.
She tapped me on the arm and I looked down to see this smiling face looking up at me.
This girl was about 8 or 9, I'd say, and had some form of Downs Syndrome. She was showing me some pieces of paper she had found.
I could see how proud she was of this paper. I smiled and talked to her about it for a minute or so. When I said how nice it was, she smiled, gave me a thumbs up and said, "nice." The first word she said to me.
Her mom and brothers (who looked like twins) were about 5-10 feet away during this encounter. When they came closer, she tapped me again and said, "bye" then gave me a big hug.
She made my day today.
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8 comments:
That is such a sweet story! She would have made my day too, If I had seen her.
Keep smiling!
Kat
Those wonderful, surprising little moments make all the difference in a day!
Kids are always a blessing ... and in their cute little ways they'll always manage to turn a bad day into a good one.
Interestingly enough, you probably made hers, too.
Out of the mouths of babes...I have always been curious about how children think and how it is always without judgment or expectation...simply with heart!
I remember when my granddaughter was about 6 and she told me in no uncertain terms that 'the world was not going to come to an end over it'..Talk about being hit with a sense of realism...kids are awesome!
Like one of your commenters' said you probably also made her day. These children are very special and loving usually the children I see in grocery stores are little hellions unfortunately.
How sweet is that? A child can always bring such happiness.
So sweet. So many people either ignore or don't know how to "handle" such situations.
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