Cookies and Oxygen

We took our kids to the nursing home for the first time last night. We brought cookies for the residents (two of the residents that took them were diabetic and had to give them back). The kids were excellent! The people there get so excited to see children. One sweet lady told me that bringing children was like getting a shot of adrenaline in the arm). It is really a depressing place to be, but their little personalities can light up a room. Our daughter especially enjoyed herself, since within the first five minutes she had been given candy and a pink baby bear, plus both the children got to eat chocolate cookies the entire time they were there.

A few of the old ladies actually said they wished they had had more children (probably hoping one of them would have actually taken care of them), and one lady we met was from a family of sixteen!

We interrupted one group of ladies playing cards to distribute some cookies. As we were leaving we heard one of the ladies say "That was my grandchildren", another replied "they was yours?", "Yes, they came to visit me." 

¶ 2/02/2005 08:41:00 AM