Saying Goodbye

Today was my last day of therapy with all of my speech babies at the school. I'm really going to miss them, but I didn't realize how much. I have a select few that were kind of my favorites, and I knew they were going to be the hardest ones to say goodbye to. As I was walking back one group to their class, one of the kids said to the other kids from the group (as they were walking ahead of us), "don't y'all wanna spend more time with her (as in, me)??" He just couldn't understand why they weren't walking with me since I was leaving them. It was so sweet. Then he asked me "will you come by tomorrow and give us hugs goodbye?" I couldn't help but tell him I would most definitely come by their class and give them all hugs.

What got me the most with my goodbyes today? Well, one of my sweetest girls was leaving after we did our fun Christmas activities. She had told me she would miss me, but sometimes you just wonder if it's just something kids say. Well, she started walking out of the door, and then proceeded to turn around and run over to my chair. I knew she was coming to hug me, so I was just expecting a regular hug. But no, she came and wrapped her sweet little arms around me and JUMPED into my lap while she gave me a really big, strong, long hug. She just kept her arms around me tight and hugged me. My eyes definitely watered. I felt loved and it touched my heart beyond belief. My supervisor said SHE was even tearing up watching her hug me! When I called my Mom later, tears were shed for real.

I sure am going to miss them...