Throughout my lifetime, I have had more than one close call. In January of 1982, I was on the subway heading towards what is now called, Reagan National Airport, to catch a plane to go out of town. Further down the subway system and closer to the airport there was a bad subway accident that delayed me and made me miss my flight. I remember calling my parents and telling them that I missed my flight and wasn't sure what to do since the weather was really bad and I didn't think I could make it back home. My dad or mom said, "didn't you hear?" I was like, "hear what?" They told me that a plane had crashed into the Potomac River!! It turned out that the plane I should have been on had taxied onto the runway, but the pilot decided the weather was too dangerous (there was a bad snowstorm) and he had turned the plane around and decided not to take off. The plane right after the one I should have been on was the one that crashed!! When my daughter was still in diapers, I fell off a second story deck. Luckily, I only broke my arm. In June of 2010, I had to have a pretty serious operation because the doctors thought I might have had cancer. The latest close call was very recent. This past Christmas Eve, I turned on our oven because I wanted to put a roast in for dinner. Within about 15 seconds I heard sparks. I looked through the window into our oven and saw flames! I instantly turned off the oven and the fire went out. I have left my oven on from time to time to cook something while we're not at home. Believe me, I won't be doing that again! I shudder to think what might have happened if I hadn't been standing right there. I am one of those people that believes that all of us have a "guardian angel" or "angels" that kind of look over us and guide us through our lives. I keep my "guardian angel" pretty busy, but I'm glad that mine has been taking care of me so well!
We are heading towards 600 orders for Dominic's business. Since our long-term goal for Baked Goods By Dominic is having a "brick-and-mortar" and hire those with disabilities, it is essential and imperative that I continue to teach him all parts of the business. Since I prompted Dominic for so many years for speech, he has become "prompt dependent." What that essentially means is that he will look at me for a prompt, like, "what do you do next?" I do that one a lot. Dominic has been going to a private speech therapist for over ten years and she reminds me often that Dominic usually will know the answer, if I am patient and wait for him. That has been a very hard habit to break! Dominic has an incredible memory, so I put it to the test this morning. I didn't write out the steps, I wanted to see how much he could do completely on his own. We have a customer picking up his order today, but the only thing that had been done is putting the cookies into t...
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