Good-Bye’s

I don’t like good-bye’s at all!  It’s so sad to say good-bye to someone knowing that you’ll never see them again, especially when they have played such a huge part in your life.  But, today we had to say good-bye to Miss Erin.  Of course it was emotional for me, I just can’t think of how thankful I am for her and everything she has done for Ryder without tearing up, so I knew that our last therapy session with her would be hard.  She has been working on teaching Ryder how to jump with both feet at one time which he proceeded to do about 20 times today!  Even that made me emotional because she was so proud of him and it was just another example of how many milestones she has helped him accomplish.  I know that he would not have come as far as he has in his recovery without her, so I’m thankful that God put her in our lives when Ryder could benefit the most. 

She had a special present for Ryder that she gave him before we left.  She made him a green (his favorite color!) box with the sweetest poem on the outside, a personal note from her on the inside, and filled it with lollipops (his favorite, of course!). 

 

Listen to the Musn’ts child,

Listen to the Don’ts,

Listen to the Shouldn’ts,

The Impossibles, the Wont’s

Listen to the Never Haves

Then Listen close to me -

Anything can happen child, anything can be!

We have our first session with Ryder’s new therapist on Tuesday and then the next Thursday he will get to see Miss Erin one last time with Daddy.  We introduced him to Miss Stacey today and she told him how excited she was that he was going to come play with her next week.  I finally broke the news to him that Miss Erin was moving and that he would be seeing Miss Stacey now.  He didn’t have much to say, until about an hour later he said “Mom, lets talk about dat”.  I said “talk about what Ryder?” he said “Miss Erin moving”.  So we talked about it again, and tonight we prayed for her and her move. So we’re easing our way into the transition.  I’m sure he’ll handle it like a champ (better than his Momma for sure!). 

Onto another goodbye…we came home to find that H2 lives no more…we thought about getting an H3 and still telling Ryder it was the original Hummer, BUT then we figured we’d better spare the poor fish it’s life.  Obviously we are not cut out to be fish owners.  Daddy is working on a plan to get rid of H2 (who is currently “sleeping”) and figure out just what to tell Ryder about the empty tank when it’s all said and done.