This Reminds Me

Last month, we got the “Recognition of Foreign Decree” – the state of Texas acknowledging Julia’s adoption in a Russian courtroom.  Today we got her Texas birth certificate – yeah!  Note to PAPs – If you’re in Texas, and your child is coming home on an IR-3, ping me if you want to know how to do this.  Much, much cheaper than a re-adoption.

Julia is learning the Pledge of Allegiance.  It’s copied on the back of this beautifully-colored flag (with pipe cleaner pole) that I just pulled from her backpack.  She does pretty well, right up to ” and liberty and justice for all” – and that’s something most politicians can’t seem to get straight either, eh?

I also pulled this unfinished booklet from her backpack – she started it, and is supposed to finish it for homework this weekend.  Darned appropriate theme, no?

Of course, there’s other stuff on my kitchen counter, too.  Like this gift from my Secret Blog Pal -

And various and sundry medicines and ointments that accompany the monstrous cold I’ve been fighting (hack, hack, aaaa-choo!)

But somehow the birth certificate, flag and booklet seemed like they belonged together.

Sort of like a little paper family.

p.s.  I dare not blog about what is under my kitchen table.  You hear people say, “My floors are so clean, you could eat off them?”  All I say is, “You could eat off my floors.”

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