My angel has returned in full bloom! Blessed be the gods of camping kids and counseling adults!
What pray tell did little Al learn at Chalice Camp this week? Not just clay chalice making, not just leather making, not just candle making, even better, oh yes!
My angel has returned to my bosom with the ability to utter three words every parent eventually must hear. Three words that signify the beigining of "The end" of...some developemental stage I can't remember, because I had to put away my psych books or go crazy...but is important none the less. Three words the average kiddo Al's age has already said a plethora of times...
"I HATE YOU"
Yes! He said it! Halelujia it's happened! To those of you who are totally lost by my exuberancy, remember this is a kid who last week told me he thought DHS had cameras in our house, a kiddo with full blown PTSD from his removal from me, and subsequent year in foster care, a child who is still afraid of the police, because they are the ones who "took him".
Hearing Al say "I hate you" is the equivalent of hearing Loreena Mckennitt sing her ethereal rendition of the W.B. Yeats poem "Stolen Child" live at the Acropolis. It is truly, music to my ears.
When I went to the church to pick Al up yesterday after the final day of camp, I was having a conversation with the Religious Education Director and another parent. Our RE Director is an amazing woman, with literally the patience of a saint...or whatever, anyway this parent starts to make some derogatory comments about one of the kids. As in "I'm suprised so snd so is so out of control, because so and so's mom is so calm...blah, blah, blah," (this is hysterical considering the fact that this parents kid is text book ADHD, and his parents are the only ones who don't know it)
Our RE Director simply looked him square in the eyes and said something that will stay with me forever, she said "That's just what so and so brings to the world."
That's just what (-----) brings to the world. I filled it in with the name of every person who was involved in my case with DHS. I suspect it's true, we all have a purpose here. Even if it's simply to invoke grattitude in others as an example of what NOT to do, say, and be.
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