The Therapy Center Waiting Room..

"Where everybody knows your name"....queue Cheers' theme song music !!

We have been going to the same therapy center for about four years. The staff knows us pretty well. They have seen Travis grow from a non-verbal little toddler to a very grown up five year old. Most of them saw my pregnancy with Townes, his delivery, and have watched him to grow up to be not such a baby anymore, Godzilla.

Besides the great staff, there are the other parents in the waiting room. The boys and I are there four days a week for at least thirty minutes, but usually for an hour. The other parents and I are all there; waiting, waiting for our child or children, to come bouncing, or crying, out of therapy and to hear the day's events and skills worked on. Even if we have never said a word to each other, we all know what it is like, and we can even just give "the look" to other parents when our kids are having meltdowns or running around screaming and throwing things. Everyone understands, its okay, and we all try to help each other.

That time in the waiting room has become very precious to me. I have met lots of friends in the waiting room. Some are not there anymore and some are new. We know each others schedules almost better than our own. We get each other coffee, text funny things, and sad things.  We can talk for that time about our kids, or not about our kids. From insurance claims, meltdowns, husbands, work, school, to just a funny joke or meme we found on Facebook.

Other parents like me, have to bring their little one when the older child has therapy. We help each other entertain all the kids, share iphones and ipads to keep them busy. We watch each others  kids just to go to the restroom to make sure they don't run out of the front door. Its a great comroderie I really enjoy. We all work together. We leave each other  with the rest of the day to go, since we leave at 8:45am at the latest. Wishing everyone the best of luck and help wrangle running kids to the cars, I leave each day happy that I had that time. It's nice to be in a place, "Where everybody knows your name"....