A Pink Umbrella

21 Oct 2015


Today was wet! And we can’t complain too much as the weather has been quite dry of late. But I guess it’s that time of year when the days are just going to get darker, colder and wetter.


After I’d dropped Lucy at nursery, Ella and I drove back towards home to drop her at school. As we neared the local secondary school, we could see all the pupils making their way there in the rain. 

Ella: ‘Umbrella mummy’
Me: ‘Yes, lots of umbrellas today Ella because of the rain’ 
Ella: ‘I need that one’
Me: ‘What? You’d like an umbrella?’
Ella: ‘yes, pink one’
Me: ‘you’d like a pink umbrella?’
Ella: ‘I love that one!’ (Which is her new favourite phrase).

Well how could I refuse? For a child that has never once asked me for anything, if a pink umbrella is what she wants then…

She loves it – wet days will be much more fun from now on!

  

Amy Dunn

Our first baby, Ella Mary, was born at the end of November 2010. We were shocked to find out soon after her birth that she has Down's Syndrome. I was determined from the start that Down's Syndrome will never define Ella or what she is able to do. We will provide for her everything she needs to become the child and the person she deserves to be. There will be hard times ahead.... there are already many hard times behind us. But I already know that the good times will always outweigh the hard times. She has taught me so much in such a short time and seeing life from a new perspective is a privilege that not many of us get the chance to experience.

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