We had EB here for respite for a couple of weekends this month. As he is 13 he gets to go to bed a little later than Squirt. She finds this situation inherently unfair and completely unacceptable.
Squirt: EB is lucky, he gets to stay up and play and I don’t. It’s not fair (insert a hmph, [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Out of the mouths of babes
Posted in Adoption, Foster care, General, Squirt on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paul Newman
Posted in Death, Faith, General, Grief on September 27, 2008 | Comments Off
I loved his blue eyes.
I loved his FU Hollywood attitude.
I love his salad dressings.
It’s so sad, really. I know that picture above is not the one many would choose to eulogize old blue eyes, but that picture speaks to me. Mr. Newman looks old in those pictures, he looks so gaunt, and not like himself [...]
Sands of time
Posted in Adoption, China, Edumacation, General, Squirt on September 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Here is my beautiful, sweet, whiny, sensitive, caring, funny, goofy, brilliant little girl on her first day of school. She is excited. I hope it lasts. She’ll need a lot of enthusiasm to get through the next twenty or so years of schooling…
I am, however, a blubbering mess. This is such a clichee, but dude, where [...]
A sea of white….
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Squirt is the only child of colour in her dance class….
Mara ~ sigh………..
I don’t know where you are. I’d like to think that heaven is everything and more, and I know if it exists you are there. It has been one full year since I held you and watched the breath leave your body as the sun rose outside your hospice room window. I felt your anxiety [...]
