Dear My Deaf Kids,

You guys are the best thing to ever happen to me. Thank you for always being patient with me, with each other, and with life in general. You have no idea how much I admire your constant strength and unfailing happiness. I hope one day you can realize how much you all have come to mean to me in so short a time. Two years is truly not enough. I will never forget the way you guys sign, the way you all say my name differently, and the way I have so little privacy and personal space around you. I love it and I wouldn't have it any other way. I adore your perpetual hunger for knowledge and learning new things, and I admire your heart and humility in learning them. I respect how brutally honest and utterly unreserved you can be; you have stripped me of any vanity and conceit and unknowingly forced incredible amounts of personal acceptance on me. I can never thank you enough for that. Please try to remember some of the things I taught you, and know that I strive every day to teach you guys as much as you teach me. Thank you for your openness, your perseverance, your stories, and your overall ability to spread unbelievable happiness. But above all, know that I hope you always stay your open, kind, cheerful, curious, patient selves.

                                   Love always,

Sarah, Sthedla, Thera, Aras, Chana, Madam, and always and forever *insert sign name here*