A Very Good Day

Amdist the obvious stress of recent weeks including, but not limited to: out of state landlording, long distance house repairs, new renters, worke stress, dating stress, being mistaken for a rentboy and then an undercover cop - i really welcome a bit of stress free downtime and certainly something that would let me call any day a very good day.

today was such a day. my scheduled meetings had been postponed and so i hung around at the office, periodically checking on customers and the new girl hired to look after them.

a nurse arrived to procure her prescribed scrubs with her mother who was holding her 16 month old little boy. i promptly handed the nurse what her options were for uniforms so she could try them on.
i was left in the company of the nurse's mother holding her little grandson.

the grandson was a very happy little thing. his name was jack. i immediately called him happy jack and talked with him and engaged him. his big brown eyes were delicious and his wavy blonde locks were angelic.

happy jack had a prominent tongue and eyes a bit slanted and cross eyed. happy jack had a bit of downs syndrome. his mother and grandmother seemed to be sensitive about this and i understood. any parent wants a healthy child and any parent wants their children to have healthy children.

awareness, acceptance and encouragement of such children is not as widespread in north texas as it is in other places i have lived.

happy jack was simply delightful. his new front teeth were so white and pretty. when his grandmother couldn't hold him any longer, he missed no chance to take off like a shot and run like the wind for all of 15 feet. lol.

when he took off running, he was so excited he tripped over his own two feet and was perplexed as to why he was face first on the ground but was undaunted and hopped up and off he went.

he was a tired little boy and a bit squirrely and his mother and grandmother were not looking forward to a sleepy, tired young child episode even though they had more shopping and more nursing supplies to procure, they were quick to escape the store to avoid a meltdown with the little one.

i could clearly see what was happening and called out jack's name and got down on the floor to his level and chatted with him.
he came running over to me with arms outstretched for me to pick him up. i happily obliged happy jack and enveloped him in my arms and picked him up and kissed him on the cheek and continued to talk with him. he tilted his little head and smiled at me and then put his little hand to my 3 day unshaven face of wheat colored stubble and ran his hands over my face.

i picked his little hand up off my blonde stubble and kissed it and hugged him the little thing just snuggled right up under my chin and hugged me back. he sighed and snuggled up further to become comfortable and put his hand on my shoulder and in the way sleepy little children do, he patted my shoulder.

this beautiful, sleepy little thing was happy and comfortable in my embrace. i talked in low, soothing, tones and rubbed his little back. if given a few more minutes, he would have fallen asleep for sure.

his mother was shocked and surprised and concerned when he ran to me for me to pick him up. i knew this and simply winked at her with one eye and smiled as to say "no worries. i've got this.". and she understood but couldn't figure out how this would go. and she watched with baited breath as did her mother.

i could see their alarm at some stange man holding their little treasure. but their little treasure knew he was in good hands and seemed to be happy to just relax. it was at that point with his mother and grandmother seeing how relaxed he was, that they also seemed to relax.

just as happy jack was drifting off to sleep in my arms, i knew it was okay to pass him back to mom. he was so sleepy and so relaxed she would have an easy time of putting him in the car seat and getting him home to a nap.

and so having spent some time with happy jack, my heart was warmed, my soul was enriched and happy jack made my day a very good day.

Comments

Awfully nice scene. I'm sure your pleasure and acceptance of happy jack was a real relief and joy for the mommy and grandma. If happy jack made your day, you certainly made theirs!
 
A delightful encounter - a touch of magic in an otherwise run-of-the-mill day. I hope some of the non-accepting, non-encouraging, unaware locals witnessed this and appreciated that DS kids are just as deserving of love as any "perfect" child is. Moreover, DS children are, almost without exception, the most loving, trusting and innocent people on Earth. Happy Jack is an apt name.

By coincidence, my own sixteen month old grandson visited this weekend.He doesn't do "angelic" very well, but he too has wavy blond locks and he too spent time in my arms resting. It's a great feeling and I hope you get to experience it with a son of your own one day.
 

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