Pauline Bridgeman of Hershey gets tears in her eyes when thinks of the people who have gone above and beyond to accommodate children with special needs. “They are just gems,” she said. And that is what is so special about the Global Down Syndrome Foundation Be Beautiful Be Yourself Gala in Washington, D.C., tonight. “That’s what this is all about, children with any kind of special need they just really want a chance to be a part of the community,” Bridgeman said.  Lillian Bridgeman will see a dream come true when she participates in a fashion show. The gala features a fashion show by models with Down syndrome, including Bridgeman’s daughter, Lillian, 7. The models will be escorted on the runway by celebrities. The gala will be held at 6 p.m. at The Ritz-Carlton. Emcee is Kyra Phillips who anchors “Raising America with Kyra Phillips” on CNN. Sheryl Crow will perform. Lillian is in first grade at Children’s House of Hershey Montessori school. She is the daughter of Pauline and Jay Bridgeman, both doctors, and has two sisters, Abigail and Charlotte. Pauline Bridgeman said that Lillian discovered she likes fashion shows while the family was serving in Honduras with Cure International. Bridgeman said she learned about the open call for auditions through what she called a “very vibrant, lovely Down syndrome network here in the Harrisburg area.” “As a parent you want to help any child you have to find something they love and have a chance to do it. When you have a special needs child you just don’t know when those things will happen,” Pauline Bridgeman said. The family headed to Washington in March to audition. Lillian is one of the 25 models selected. Lillian and her father were in Washington on Tuesday for a fitting at Bloomingdale’s. Her mother said that being in a fashion show is a dream come true for Lillian. “She has often talked to us about being in a fashion show, being a pop star and frequently invited us and other friends to her ‘purple concert,’” Pauline Bridgeman said. “She sometimes walks through Target with her hand on her hip making 360 degree turns as she walks.” Lillian calls tonight’s event her “purple concert.” Purple is the young lady’s favorite color. She also takes ballet at McCann’s School of Dance, enjoys reading, Barbie and Paris. The Bridgemans, Pauline Bridgeman said, have a long-term mission as doctors to help educate physicians in developing countries and provide medical care to the poor overseas as well as in the U.S. As a family, they recently visited Ethiopia and Kenya to see the work being done in hospitals there. Part of the mission is orthopedic surgery and medical education. Another part is showing the world the great value of differently-abled people. “We just really want people to know about the extraordinary things they are doing. They all are doing great things in their own right,” Bridgeman said. To see Lillian's bio and those of the other models, click here.
. Please watch this 2-minute reverie on parenting, tweens and how many Hershey’s products two people can consume in one sitting, and then give me your reaction (because mine was visceral):
. The iydirrsebn I just can’t imagine a kid as self-sufficient as this pixie pining for daddy-time during the work day. And I resent the fact that she resents her dad being busy. Just because he works from home doesn’t mean he’s her companion, and just because his meeting sounds boring doesn’t mean it — and his input — are worthless. But that’s just me. (Who works from home!) And what’s with the little kid who jumps out at her? Not to go all English major (because I wasn’t one), but he seems to represent Something Deep. The whole thing is just extremely, gratingly false, from the 1950s jar of coins (maybe she made money canning beets!) to the layout of the neighborhood, which at first seems to be only dreary houses and empty streets, but then seems rife with small businesses and kids playing outside. I’m just curious to hear if anyone else’s teeth are on edge. (Are dads supposed to quit their jobs to go to the candy store with their kids????) Why is this  thing irking me so much? Could it be the fact they end up making s’mores INSIDE? Who does that, unless told to do so by an advertising director using the tritest possible way to summon up ye old innocence of childhood? (And getting it WRONG!) Or maybe the gooeyness of the marshmallow is supposed to signify ooey gooey looooooooooove? Help me! – L
This is how you sell Hershey’s? Whatever happened to showing us a bunch of almonds getting enrobed in chocolate? I remember seeing a "recipe" for S'mores in a Boy Scout manual in the early 1970s.. Didn't sound too appealing to me because I'm not really a fan of marshmallows. Our family never made them while camping, and I never went camping with the boy scouts either. I grew up, got married, and my wife's family made them when she was a girl, so of course WE have to have them when we go camping. Yes, they are MESSY AS HELL to prepare and eat. Gooey melted marshmallow and melted chocolate are likely to get everywhere: hands, face, clothing. If you have young kids - and let's face it, there's no other reason to prepare these unless they're for kids - expect tears and frustration over burnt marshmallows,dropped-in-the-dirt Hershey bars and "dessert sandwich" contents that spill out on all sides when you bite into them. And then, you're left with a half-eaten sack of marshmallows to take home. Marshmallows are of one of those horrid foods that have no flavor beyond "sweet." |
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