I have to admit something. I’m feeling really sad today. Sad that my girl is not going to be going to the same middle school as her peers. As all of those kids who she’s come to know over these past six years. The ones who no longer find her “unexpected” Brooke-isms unexpected; they just know that’s Brooke. The ones who signed her yearbook with her favorite made up scripts and repeated lines. The ones who gently redirected her when she lost her way yesterday, the ones who cheered when she threw her arms in the air, the ones who go out of their way to include her even when it’s not easy to do. The ones who know her, who like her, who GET her. I know that going to school with them is not feasible for her right now. I know that it would not provide her with the tools that she needs to thrive. I know that the school that she’s going to will. I know that it’s the right place, the right people, the right environment. I know all that. And yet, I’m sad because the right environment doesn’t yet exist in her home school. I know that someday, for, as she calls them, the “little sisters” and “little brothers” coming up behind her, it will. She’s working too hard forging the path for it not to. And I know how much we have relative to those who still have NO good options at all, and for that I am grateful to those who came before us and lit the way, and I promise to keep working until every one of our children has what they need. I know we’re doing the right thing. I know it will be okay. But today, I’m sad. Like = I get it.
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 13:45:05 +0000
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