I feel I need to tell of the importance of reserving handicap bathrooms for handicap people.  Here's why;   a few weeks ago, I was at a public restroom and I was holding the door open and waiting for Cass and Kara (her bff).  While standing there, a mom brought her son into the bathroom.  He was in a wheel chair and had oxygen.  Someone was in the handicap stall, who was not handicap,  and this boy could not wait. So his Mom was helping him get up and try to fit into a regular stall with his tubes dangling and trying to reach the distance and then his oxygen tank fell onto the floor. It was heartbreaking to watch. Yet , if the handicap stall was free, his Mom could have wheeled right in with him and it would've been much, much easier for him and her.

 Then last night, it happened again, an elderly women using a walker was waiting to use the bathroom and when Cassidy came out of the stall, I asked the women if she wanted to go in and she said she needed a handicap stall, but they were all taken (by non-handicap people). She said people don't honor them. I felt terrible because she was waiting while Cassidy went to the bathroom and then I while I went and when I came out she was still waiting.  Not fair.
 
I always needed the handicap stalls with Alec, and I would sometimes take Cassidy in them   because it gave us more room and less touching of the dirty bathroom stuff.
 I will never use a handicap stall again, because however inconvenient it may be to wait a few minutes longer when the handicap stall is free, or however more convenient it would be so your kids don't touch the dirty walls, just think of how much , much more inconvenient it is for a person with a handicap to have to wait or fit into a regular stall-- because this boy could not wait the few minutes.
I  share this because I used to think that if noone was waiting,  then it was ok, but at any second someone could come in and need it.

 Beth ,  (my/our cousin) sent us this picture of her daughter, Shannon and wrote;
"I can't believe she chose by herself to get her face painted as a Giraffe"
I sent back that I can and can't believe it,  because we have never heard of anyone choosing a giraffe to have face painted on, and then of course a giraffe.  Beth sent back, "You Can't".  She said she had tears in her eyes when Shannon walked in with a Giraffe face.

I also want to share the signs Beth got from Alec. She was driving in NH  weeks ago and she drove by Scott Street,  then  ahead drove by a store with a Huge Giraffe out front, then ahead drove by Angel Autobody.  This all while Scott was in ICU , just days after his accident.  And then Shannon got the Giraffe face. 

So Cassidy took Al's advice and decided to try  his dentist, Dr. Mooney's.  Cass was not too keen on Dr. Yadzi her dentist,   on one of her visits they called her in and when we walked through the door instead of going left like she was suppose to, she went right into the bathroom and wouldn't come out. It took alot of convincing to get her to get her teeth cleaned.  Dr. Yadzi is nice,  just too busy.  
Cassidy needed 2 teeth pulled and Keith took her to Dr. Mooney's and she did great and she said that they are so nice there.  And she was ready to make the switch.  So I set an appointment up for Cassidy's next cleaning at Dr. Mooney's.

 This apptointment was just weeks after Al went to heaven.  And we decided we would take her because it was important to have her teeth cleaned.  We asked Keith's Mom to call and explain about Al before we went.   Just as we were getting close to leave,   Rich (my brother), stopped by and he told us that the roads were very icy. We decided to not drive in it and cancelled Cass's appt. and they rescheduled it for the next day or two.   I realized that I did not think to request Jenn (Al's favorite hygenist)  for Cassidy for either appt., I  just made her an appt. for a cleaning.  But Alec loved Jenn so I had hoped it was with her. So while we were waiting in the waiting room, I said to Cass,  If Al has anything to do with this,  you will have Jenn.  Next thing you know out comes Jenn and she calls Cassidy. I said that's Jenn.
Cass chose Dad to go in with her, and when they came out they told me that when Jenn gave Cass the mirror to look at her teeth, the back of the mirror said "Room 4".   Alec's favorite  and main classroom at his Hajjar school was Room 4--his special needs class. That's just what it was called  Room 4 , Al loved , loved, loved his Room 4 family.
So on the way home we were crying and smiling at the signs Al gave us,  then I said, I wonder if we had kept that first appointment, if Cassidy would've had Jenn. In my mind I planned on calling to ask. Then Keith said, No it wouldn't have been with Jenn because she told them that she just got home from Florida late the night of Cassidy's appt, that we canceled, so she wasn't here. So Cassidy would have had a different hygenist.
So we knew that Al made us cancel the appt. so Cass could have Jenn (his favorite), and made sure Dad and Cass saw that Jenn's room is Room4.
We all cried and smiled in awe at the signs Al gave us.