Kintropy In Action

Today, Robert, the kids, and I decided to go on an outing. Robert needed to do an exchange at our new Best Buy store. Just getting out sounded fun to me.

So we went to do our errand; then go to Red Robin for lunch. Red Robin was busy today due to the holiday. Seven teenage girls, obviously together, were taking up two booths worth in the waiting room. Their hair was all perfect. Their clothes matched their cell phones. Their cell phones weren't stashed away in a purse or pocket; they were clutched like Gollum's Precious from the Hobbit.

Gabriel paced the lobby. He tried to climb the five-foot replica of the Statue of Liberty. He was sure the plaque she held was a book that could be opened: an idea he got from Schoolhouse Rock. He asked me if I could open it.

Meanwhile, Hannah was protesting. She was hungry. So Robert whipped out Hannah's feeding tube and syringe. I watched the teenagers' eyes widen, and several shielded their eyes. This amused me. I bent down and said to Robert, "You won't believe the responses those girls are giving right now."

He chuckled. He joked we should ask them if they had a BIC pen to reinsert a trach for Hannah. He soon came up with other crisises, a little more typical to our life, but that would probably shock them just the same.

Personally, I would love to think that Hannah, as she gets older, will go up to a person like that  and say, "Oh, you still eat with your mouth? How barbaric!"

--Mom