31 for 21: In Brief

*I've joined a blogging challenge for the month of October: Blog every day in October in honor of National Down Syndrome Awareness Month (Down syndrome is medically defined as Trisomy 21, and there are 31 days in October, hence the name 31 for 21). My posts will not necessarily be about Down syndrome, but I am writing as a person who 1) loves many people w/Down syndrome and other disabilities and 2) desires for others to be able to see what I see: remarkably unique people with much to offer to the world*

Babysitting late tonight, so writing the body of my blog from my phone, hence the brevity :)

A funny story from today, and a brief comment about tomorrow, will be all this blog holds.

Staff and myself sitting around a table at work with a couple clients, discussing our outing calendar for the month, who should go where and when. The client sitting next to me suddenly said, in reference to another client we'd just mentioned, "She's a baller." Sure we'd heard her wrong, we asked her to repeat herself. She said the same thing then mentioned another client too, saying "He's a baller too.". We laughed about how this lady had picked up on slang that seemed so very unfitting to her...until her commentary continued: "Yep, he's a baller, knocks all the pins down...". Ah, a BOWLER!

Tomorrow our self-advocacy committee has a meeting. Once a month or so, 3-4 of my clients and 1 staff member attend these meetings. They discuss how to tell their story, how to get more active in their community, how to be in touch with legislators, etc. I'm glad they do it, I'm glad our company promotes it, I'm thankful for the people who put it together and I love the smiles it puts on my clients' faces. That is all :)